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In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a powerful imaging modality that relies on the PA effect. PAI works on the principle of electromagnetic energy absorption by the exogenous contrast agents and/or endogenous molecules present in the biological…

Photoacoustic image (PAI) quality improvement using a low frequency piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducer (PMUT) having the fundamental resonant frequency 1 MHz is being reported. Specifically, three different methods are…

Coherent Plane Wave Compounding (CPWC) is widely used for ultrasound imaging. This technique involves sending plane waves into a sample at different transmit angles and recording the resultant backscattered echo at different receive…

Beamforming in plane-wave imaging (PWI) is an essential step in creating images with optimal quality. Adaptive methods estimate the apodization weights from echo traces acquired by several transducer elements. Herein, we formulate…

We present a statistical interpretation of beamforming to overcome limitations of standard delay-and-sum (DAS) processing. Both the interference and the signal of interest are viewed as random variables and the distribution of the signal of…

Wireless ultrasound (US) systems that produce high-quality images can improve current clinical diagnosis capabilities by making the imaging process much more efficient, affordable, and accessible to users. The most common technique for…

In Ultrasound (US) imaging, Delay and Sum (DAS) is the most common beamformer, but it leads to low quality images. Delay Multiply and Sum (DMAS) was introduced to address this problem. However, the reconstructed images using DMAS still…

A new development in photoacoustic (PA) imaging has been the use of compact, portable and low-cost laser diodes (LDs), but LD-based PA imaging suffers from low signal intensity recorded by the conventional transducers. A common method to…

While passive acoustic mapping (PAM) has been advanced for monitoring acoustic cavitation activity in focused ultrasound (FUS) therapy, achieving both real-time and high-quality imaging capabilities is still challenging. The angular…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a novel hybrid imaging technique that combines the benefits of both optical and acoustic imaging modalities, which provides functional and molecular optical contrasts of deep tissue. Commonly used ultrasound…

This article discusses aeroacoustic imaging methods based on correlation measurements in the frequency domain. Standard methods in this field assume that the estimated correlation matrix is superimposed with additive white noise. In this…

Conventional ultrasound (US) imaging employs the delay and sum (DAS) receive beamforming with dynamic receive focus for image reconstruction due to its simplicity and robustness. However, the DAS beamforming follows a geometrical method of…

Covariance fitting (CF) is a comprehensive approach for direction of arrival (DoA) estimation, consolidating many common solutions. Standard practice is to use Euclidean criteria for CF, disregarding the intrinsic Hermitian…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) uniquely combines the advantages of optical contrast with deep tissue penetration capability of acoustic waves, enabling imaging at depths of several centimeters. Conventional photoacoustic imaging methods have…

Ultrasound imaging is a real-time diagnostic modality that reconstructs acoustic signals into visual representations of internal body structures. A key component in this process is beamforming, with the Delay and Sum (DAS) algorithm being a…

We present a compressive beamforming method for coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) ultrasound imaging based on a far-field decomposition of the received radiofrequency (RF) data into virtual plane waves. This decomposition recasts the…

Power Doppler ultrasound is in widespread clinical use for non-invasive vascular imaging but the most common current method - Delay and Sum (DAS) beamforming - suffers from limited resolution and high side-lobes. Here we propose the…

Beamforming in ultrasound imaging has significant impact on the quality of the final image, controlling its resolution and contrast. Despite its low spatial resolution and contrast, delay-and-sum is still extensively used nowadays in…

With the growing application of transformer in computer vision, hybrid architecture that combine convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers demonstrates competitive ability in medical image segmentation. However, direct fusion of…