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Time of flight cameras may emerge as the 3-D sensor of choice. Today, time of flight sensors use phase-based sampling, where the phase delay between emitted and received, high-frequency signals encodes distance. In this paper, we present a…

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We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

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In ultrasound nondestructive testing, a widespread approach is to take synthetic aperture measurements from the surface of a specimen to detect and locate defects within it. Based on these measurements, imaging is usually performed using…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

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Photoacoustic imaging can achieve high-resolution three-dimensional visualization of optical absorbers at penetration depths ~ 1 cm in biological tissues by detecting optically-induced high ultrasound frequencies. Tomographic acquisition…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jérôme Gateau , Marc Gesnik , Jean-Marie Chassot , Emmanuel Bossy

A tomographic technique called full-waveform inversion has recently shown promise as a fast, affordable, and safe modality to image the brain using ultrasound. However, its high computational cost and memory footprint currently limit its…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Letizia Protopapa , Carlos Cueto

Recently, there has been growing interest and effort in developing high-speed high-precision 3D imaging technologies for a wide range of industrial, automotive and biomedical applications. Optical frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW)…

An efficient and accurate image reconstruction algorithm for ultrasound tomography (UST) is described and demonstrated, which can recover accurate sound speed distribution from acoustic time series measurements made in soft tissue. The…

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Ultrasound (US) imaging is a vital adjunct to mammography in breast cancer screening and diagnosis, but its reliance on hand-held transducers often lacks repeatability and heavily depends on sonographers' skills. Integrating US systems from…

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Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) enhances finding visibility for breast cancer detection by providing volumetric information that reduces the impact of overlapping tissues; however, limited annotated data has constrained the development…

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High-frequency focused ultrasound is widely used in biomedical applications such as high-resolution imaging, neuromodulation, particle manipulation, and so on. However, dynamic tuning of the focal plane in conventional systems often relies…

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Malignant and benign breast tumors present differently in their shape and size on sonography. Morphological information provided by tumor contours are important in clinical diagnosis. However, ultrasound images contain noises and tissue…

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Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging addresses the limitation in field-of-view (FOV) in conventional two-dimensional (2D) US imaging by providing 3D viewing of the anatomy. 3D US imaging has been extensively adapted for diagnosis…

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Ultrasound imaging is widely used due to its safety, affordability, and real-time capabilities, but its 2D interpretation is highly operator-dependent, leading to variability and increased cognitive demand. 2D-to-3D reconstruction mitigates…

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We present Surf2CT, a novel cascaded flow matching framework that synthesizes full 3D computed tomography (CT) volumes of the human torso from external surface scans and simple demographic data (age, sex, height, weight). This is the first…

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Ultrasound (US) is the most widely used fetal imaging technique. However, US images have limited capture range, and suffer from view dependent artefacts such as acoustic shadows. Compounding of overlapping 3D US acquisitions into a…

Accurate modeling of ultrasound wave propagation is essential for high-fidelity simulation and imaging in ultrasonic testing. A primary challenge lies in characterizing the excitation source, particularly for transducers with large…

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To obtain the initial pressure from the collected data on a planar sensor arrangement in Photoacoustic tomography, there exists an exact analytic frequency domain reconstruction formula. An efficient realization of this formula needs to…

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Weighted Finite State Transducers (WFSTs) are versatile data structures that can model a great number of problems, ranging from Automatic Speech Recognition to DNA sequencing. Traditional computer science algorithms are employed when…

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We propose and test stable algorithms for the reconstruction of the internal conductivity of a biological object using acousto-electric measurements. Namely, the conventional impedance tomography scheme is supplemented by scanning the…

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