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In-air acoustic imaging systems demand beamforming techniques that offer a high dynamic range and spatial resolution while also remaining robust. Conventional Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamforming fails to meet these quality demands due to high…

Linear-array based photoacoustic images are reconstructed using the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming method. Although the DAS beamformer is well suited for PA image formation, reconstructed images are often afflicted by noises,…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising medical imaging modality providing the spatial resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging and the contrast of pure optical imaging. For linear-array PAI, a beamformer has to be used as the…

Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer is the most common beamforming algorithm in Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) due to its simple implementation and real time imaging. However, it provides poor resolution and high levels of sidelobe. A new algorithm…

This paper investigates a practical partially-connected hybrid beamforming transmitter for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) with distortion from nonlinear power amplification. For this ISAC system, we formulate a communication…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality capable of providing both high contrast and high resolution of optical and UltraSound (US) imaging. When a short duration laser pulse illuminates the tissue as a target…

Delay alignment modulation (DAM) has been recently proposed to enable manipulable channel delay spread for efficient single- or multi-carrier communications. In particular, with perfect delay alignment, inter-symbol interference (ISI) can…

Low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) transmission is an important and favorable requirement prevalent in radar and communication systems, especially in transmission links integrated with high power amplifiers. Meanwhile, motivated by the…

The maximum a-posteriori (MAP) perturbation framework has emerged as a useful approach for inference and learning in high dimensional complex models. By maximizing a randomly perturbed potential function, MAP perturbations generate unbiased…

Delay-and-sum (DAS) is the most widespread digital beamformer in high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging. Its implementation is simple and compatible with real-time applications. In this viewpoint article, we describe the fundamentals of DAS…

This work presents a comparison of the delay and sum (DAS), filtered delay multiply and sum (DMAS), minimum variance (MV) and specular receive beamforming schemes in the context of ultrasound imaging of specular reflectors. The main…

The uncertainty of the sensing target brings great challenge to the beamforming design of the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. To address this issue, we model the scattering coefficient and azimuth angle of the target as…

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…

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is an enabling technology for the sixth-generation mobile communications, which equips the wireless communication networks with sensing capabilities. In this paper, we investigate transmit…

This paper proposes a transmit beamforming strategy for the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems enabled by the novel stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) architecture, where the base station (BS) simultaneously performs…

Many Bayesian statistical inference problems come down to computing a maximum a-posteriori (MAP) assignment of latent variables. Yet, standard methods for estimating the MAP assignment do not have a finite time guarantee that the algorithm…

Delay and sum (DAS) is the most common beamforming algorithm in linear-array photoacoustic imaging (PAI) as a result of its simple implementation. However, it leads to a low resolution and high sidelobes. Delay multiply and sum (DMAS) was…

This paper investigates flexible beamforming design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network with movable antennas (MAs). A bistatic radar system is integrated into a multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MU-MISO)…

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies sensing and communication, and improves the efficiency of the spectrum, energy, and hardware. In this work, we investigate the ISAC beamforming design to maximize the mutual information…

We propose analytical models for the interference power distribution in a cellular system employing MIMO beamforming in rich and limited scattering environments, which capture non line-of-sight signal propagation in the microwave and mmWave…