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The numerical simulation of weakly nonlinear ultrasound is important in treatment planning for focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies. However, the large domain sizes and generation of higher harmonics at the focus make these problems extremely…

In this paper we consider narrow band, active array imaging of weak localized scatterers when only the intensities are recorded at an array with N transducers. We consider that the medium is homogeneous and, hence, wave propagation is fully…

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Frame rate is a crucial consideration in cardiac ultrasound imaging and 3D sonography. Several methods have been proposed in the medical ultrasound literature aiming at accelerating the image acquisition. In this paper, we consider one such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Grigoriy Zurakhov , Alex M. Bronstein , Michael Zibulevsky , Oleg Michailovich , Dan Adam , Diana Gaitini

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…

Biomedical applications requiring tissue diagnosis, activation, and treatment could be substantially leveraged by optical methods, owing to their unique feature set. However, their widespread application is severely limited by the strong…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Maxim Cherkashin , Carsten Brenner , Georg Schmitz , Martin Hofmann

We demonstrate that the diffusion coefficient, $D$, for ultrasound propagating in a multiple scattering medium, such as a dense granular suspension, can be measured using a time reversal experiment. This requires an unprecedented…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Y. Abraham , B. A. van Tiggelen , N. Benech , C. Negreira , X. Jia , A. Tourin

The correction of the aberration of transcranial focused ultrasounds is a relevant issue for enhancing various non-invasive medical treatments. Emission through multi-element phased arrays has been the most widely accepted method to reduce…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Marcelino Ferri , JM Bravo , Javier Redondo , JV Sánchez-Pérez

In portable, 3-D, or ultra-fast ultrasound (US) imaging systems, there is an increasing demand to reconstruct high quality images from limited number of data. However, the existing solutions require either hardware changes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Yeo Hun Yoon , Jong Chul Ye

We consider deep learning strategies in ultrasound systems, from the front-end to advanced applications. Our goal is to provide the reader with a broad understanding of the possible impact of deep learning methodologies on many aspects of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Ruud JG van Sloun , Regev Cohen , Yonina C Eldar

We study imaging with an array of sensors that probes a medium with single frequency electromagnetic waves and records the scattered electric field. The medium is known and homogenous except for some small and penetrable inclusions. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Optoacoustic image formation is conventionally based upon ultrasound time-of-flight readings from multiple detection positions. Herein, we exploit acoustic scattering to physically encode the position of optical absorbers in the acquired…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Xose Luis Dean-Ben , Ali Ozbek , Hernan Lopez-Schier , Daniel Razansky

The two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound imaging is widely used in several fields. In this study, the potential of two-dimensional ultrasound imaging technique based on machine learning is shown. A line transmitter was placed at one side and a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Yoshiki Nagatani , Shigeaki Okumura , Shuqiong Wu , Tetsuya Matsuda

Sound scattering by a finite width beam on a single rigid body rotation vortex flow is detected by a linear array of transducers (both smaller than a flow cell), and analyzed using a revised scattering theory. Both the phase and amplitude…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sh. Seifer , V. Steinberg

Phased arrays of airborne ultrasound transducers are widely utilized as a key technology to achieve mid-air convergence of intense ultrasound, which is applied to a variety of systems, such as contactless tactile presentation,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Masatake Kitano , Keisuke Hasegawa

A general theory is presented for the photodetection statistics of coherent radiation that has been amplified by a disordered medium. The beating of the coherent radiation with the spontaneous emission increases the noise above the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Patra , C. W. J. Beenakker

Purpose: The objective of this work is to introduce an advanced framework designed to enhance ultrasound images, especially those captured by portable hand-held devices, which often produce lower quality images due to hardware constraints.…

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From the earth's crust to the human brain, remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in a diverse range of diffusive media. Separating the source and detector increases the penetration depth of remitted light, yet rapidly decreases…

Focusing waves inside inhomogeneous media is a fundamental problem for imaging. Spatial variations of wave velocity can strongly distort propagating wavefronts and degrade image quality. Adaptive focusing can compensate for such aberration,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 William Lambert , Laura A. Cobus , Thomas Frappart , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Feature matching is an important technique to identify a single object in different images. It helps machines to construct recognition of a specific object from multiple perspectives. For years, feature matching has been commonly used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Hang Zhu , Zihao Wang

We report a new coherent imaging technique, termed ptychographic structured modulation (PSM), for quantitative super-resolution microscopy. In this technique, we place a thin diffuser (i.e., a scattering lens) in between the sample and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Pengming Song , Shaowei Jiang , He Zhang , Zichao Bian , Chengfei Guo , Kazunori Hoshino , Guoan Zheng