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Current commercial matrix transducers for 3D DCE-US do not display side-by-side B-mode and contrast-mode images when capturing volumetric data, thus leaving the operator with no position feedback during lengthy acquisitions. The purpose of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Ahmed El Kaffas , Renhui Gong , Samvardhini Sridharan , Rosa Maria Silveira Sigrist , Isabelle Durot , Jürgen K. Willmann , Dimitre Hristov

We consider imaging the reflectivity of scatterers from intensity-only data recorded by a single moving transducer that both emits and receives signals, forming a synthetic aperture. By exploiting frequency illumination diversity, we obtain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

We propose a three-dimensional (3D) multimodal medical imaging system that combines freehand ultrasound and structured light 3D reconstruction in a single coordinate system without requiring registration. To the best of our knowledge, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jhacson Meza , Sonia H. Contreras-Ortiz , Lenny A. Romero , Andres G. Marrugo

Ultrasonic backscatter measurements are widely used for microstructural characterisation. However, in materials containing strong anisotropy and spatial heterogeneity, the interpretation of backscatter signals becomes challenging because…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wei Yi Yeoh , Bo Lan , Michael J. S. Lowe

Arrays of ultrasonic sensors are capable of 3D imaging in air and an affordable supplement to other sensing modalities, such as radar, lidar, and camera, i.e. in heterogeneous sensing systems. However, manufacturing tolerances of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Raphael Müller , Gianni Allevato , Matthias Rutsch , Christoph Haugwitz , Tianyi Liu , Mario Kupnik , Marius Pesavento

Multiphoton absorption is of vital importance in many spectroscopic, microscopic or lithographic applications. However, given that it is an inherently weak process, the detection of multiphoton absorption signals typically requires large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Shahram Panahiyan , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Maria V. Chekhova , Frank Schlawin

It is known that a spatially partially coherent light field produces better imaging contrast compared to a spatially coherent field and that the contrast increases as the spatial coherence length of the field becomes smaller. The transverse…

In speech production research, different imaging modalities have been employed to obtain accurate information about the movement and shaping of the vocal tract. Ultrasound is an affordable and non-invasive imaging modality with relatively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Tamás Gábor Csapó , Kele Xu

We report a systematic methodology to obtain supermodes with equidistant effective index distribution and to excite arbitrary target supermodes with high precision. By employing a multi-well optical potential realized by a judiciously…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Kaile Chen , Qi Lu , Yuan Zhong , Jingchi Li , Yuru Li , Zhaohui Li , Chao Lu , Yikai Su , Lu Sun

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

Purpose. Ability to locate and track ultrasound images in the 3D operating space is of great benefit for multiple clinical applications. This is often accomplished by tracking the probe using a precise but expensive optical or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Yitian Zhou , Gaétan Lelu , Boris Labbé , Guillaume Pasquier , Pierre Le Gargasson , Albert Murienne , Laurent Launay

Fourier imaging is an indirect imaging method which records the diffraction pattern of the object scene coherently in the focal plane of the imaging system and reconstructs the image using computational resources. The spatial resolution,…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-05 Hui Yuan , Alvydas Lisauskas , Mark D. Thomson , Hartmut G. Roskos

In minimally invasive endovascular procedures, contrast-enhanced angiography remains the most robust imaging technique. However, it is at the expense of the patient and clinician's health due to prolonged radiation exposure. As an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Alex Ranne , Liming Kuang , Yordanka Velikova , Nassir Navab , Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena

We consider the problem of imaging extended reflectors in terminating waveguides. We form the image by back-propagating the array response matrix projected on the waveguide's non-evanescent modes. The projection is adequately defined for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Chrysoula Tsogka , Dimitrios A. Mitsoudis , Symeon Papadimitropoulos

Ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most commonly used non-invasive imaging techniques. However, US image acquisition requires simultaneous guidance of the transducer and interpretation of images, which is a highly challenging task that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Simona Treivase , Alberto Gomez , Jacqueline Matthew , Emily Skelton , Julia A. Schnabel , Nicolas Toussaint

This paper presents an approach to characterize ultrasonic imaging arrays using pin targets in commercial test phantoms. We used a 128-element phased array transducer operating at 7.5 MHz with a fractional bandwidth of %70. We also used a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Yasin Kumru , Hayrettin Köymen

We implement a general imaging method by measuring the complex degree of coherence using linear optics and photon number resolving detectors. In the absence of collective or entanglement assisted measurements, our method is optimal over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 L. A. Howard , G. G. Gillett , M. E. Pearce , R. A. Abrahao , T. J. Weinhold , P. Kok , A. G. White

Single-shot imaging with femtosecond X-ray lasers is a powerful measurement technique that can achieve both high spatial and temporal resolution. However, its accuracy has been severely limited by the difficulty of applying conventional…

We propose and demonstrate an ultrasonic communication link using spatial degrees of freedom to increase data rates for deeply implantable medical devices. Low attenuation and millimeter wavelengths make ultrasound an ideal communication…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Max L. Wang , Amin Arbabian

Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus