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Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is a novel implementation of photoacoustic imaging (PAI) for visualizing the 3D bio-structure, which is realized by raster scanning of the tissue. However, as three involved critical imaging parameters,…
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…
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is an emerging imaging method combining light and sound. However, limited by the laser's repetition rate, state-of-the-art high-speed PAM technology often sacrifices spatial sampling density (i.e.,…
The most common technique for generating B-mode ultrasound (US) images is delay and sum (DAS) beamforming, where the signals received at the transducer array are sampled before an appropriate delay is applied. This necessitates sampling…
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…
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…
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) suffers from inherent limitations that can degrade the quality of reconstructed results, such as noise, artifacts and incomplete data acquisition caused by sparse sampling or partial array detection. In this…
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a relatively new technology for recording stress wave propagation, with promising applications in both engineering and geophysics. DAS's ability to simultaneously collect high spatial resolution data…
Ultrasonic imaging algorithms used in many clinical and industrial applications consist of three steps: A data pre-processing, an image formation and an image post-processing step. For efficiency, image formation often relies on an…
Diffusion models have recently achieved success in solving Bayesian inverse problems with learned data priors. Current methods build on top of the diffusion sampling process, where each denoising step makes small modifications to samples…
Dynamic spectrum management (DSM) has been recognized as a key technology to significantly improve the performance of digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband access networks. The basic concept of DSM is to coordinate transmission over…
Delay alignment modulation (DAM) is an innovative broadband modulation technique well suited for millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. Leveraging the high spatial…
Image reconstruction from radio-frequency data is pivotal in ultrafast plane wave ultrasound imaging. Unlike the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) technique, which relies on somewhat imprecise assumptions, deep learning-based methods perform…
Phased microphone arrays are used widely in the applications for acoustic source localization. Deconvolution approaches such as DAMAS successfully overcome the spatial resolution limit of the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming…
Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous…
Acoustic-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (AR-PAM) is a promising tool for microvascular imaging. In the focal region, resolution of AR-PAM is determined by the ultrasound transducer and ultimately limited by acoustic diffraction. In the…
As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…
Ultrasonic imaging is being used to obtain information about the acoustic properties of a medium by emitting waves into it and recording their interaction using ultrasonic transducer arrays. The Delay-And-Sum (DAS) algorithm forms images…
Removing speckle noise from medical ultrasound images while preserving image features without introducing artifact and distortion is a major challenge in ultrasound image restoration. In this paper, we propose a multiframe-based adaptive…
Background: Photoacoustic Microscopy (PAM) integrates optical and acoustic imaging, offering enhanced penetration depth for detecting optical-absorbing components in tissues. Nonetheless, challenges arise in scanning large areas with high…