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A method is presented for estimating and reconstructing the sound field within a room using physics-informed neural networks. By incorporating a limited set of experimental room impulse responses as training data, this approach combines…

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Ultrasonic backscatter communication has gained popularity in recent years where piezoceramic resonators are used as acoustic antennas. Currently, backscatter communication revolves around the amplitude modulation of the echo signal by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Muhammad Junaid Akhtar , Alp Timucin Toymus , Kivanc Esat , Levent Beker

In this paper, a deep-learning-based method for sound field reconstruction is proposed. It is shown the possibility to reconstruct the magnitude of the sound pressure in the frequency band 30-300 Hz for an entire room by using a very low…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Francesc Lluís , Pablo Martínez-Nuevo , Martin Bo Møller , Sven Ewan Shepstone

This study presents the first quantifications of ultrasound attenuation in oral soft tissues using validated standard techniques and serves as foundational step in advancing quantitative ultrasound (QUS) imaging in dentistry. Current…

Visualizing elastic waves by noninvasive imaging has been useful for analyzing the mechanical properties of materials and tissues. However, the maximum wave frequency of elastography has been limited to ~10 kHz due to the finite sensitivity…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Xu Feng , Guo-Yang Li , Seok-Hyun Yun

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering compressively sensed ultrasound images. We build on prior work, and consider a number of existing approaches that we consider to be the state-of-the-art. The methods we consider take…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Richard Porter , Vladislav Tadic , Alin Achim

Conventional imaging of diagnostic ultrasound is widely used. Although it makes the differences in the soft tissues echogenicities' apparent and clear, it fails in describing and estimating the soft tissue mechanical properties. It cannot…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hassan M. Ahmed

This study presents a frequency-domain, Hessian-free ray-Born inversion method for quantitative ultrasound tomography, extending the author's previous Hessian-based approach. Both approaches model acoustic wave propagation using a ray-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ashkan Javaherian

Increasing the imaging speed is a central aim in photoacoustic tomography. This issue is especially important in the case of sequential scanning approaches as applied for most existing optical detection schemes. In this work we address this…

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The parametric optimization for the ultrasound computed tomography system is introduced. It is hypothesized that the pulse characteristic directly affects the information present in the reconstructed profile. The ultrasound excitation modes…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Ankur Kumar , Mayank Goswami

Ultrasound computed tomography techniques have the potential to provide clinicians with 3D, quantitative and high-resolution information of both soft and hard tissues such as the breast or the adult human brain. Their practical application…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Carlos Cueto , Lluis Guasch , Javier Cudeiro , Oscar Calderon Agudo , Oscar Bates , George Strong , Meng-Xing Tang

With the development of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, methods have been proposed to precisely estimate the thickness, refractive index, and attenuation coefficient of a sample. In this article, we propose a new method to compute these…

Ultrasound wave propagation in a nonhomogeneous linearly elastic layer of constant thickness is considered. The resonances for the corresponding acoustic propagator are studied. It is shown that the distribution of the resonances depends on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Ivan Argatov , Alexei Iantchenko

This paper proposes a novel approach to reconstruct changes in a target conductivity from electrical impedance tomography measurements. As in the conventional difference imaging, the reconstruction of the conductivity change is based on…

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Room geometry inference algorithms rely on the localization of acoustic reflectors to identify boundary surfaces of an enclosure. Rooms with highly absorptive walls or walls at large distances from the measurement setup pose challenges for…

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Ultrasound image quality has continually been improving. However, when needles or other metallic objects are operating inside the tissue, the resulting reverberation artifacts can severely corrupt the surrounding image quality. Such effects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Alex Ling Yu Hung , Edward Chen , John Galeotti

We consider a mathematical model of thermoacoustic tomography and other multi-wave imaging techniques with variable sound speed and attenuation. We find that a Neumann series reconstruction algorithm, previously studied under the assumption…

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An extended aperture has the potential to greatly improve ultrasound imaging performance. This work extends the effective aperture size by coherently compounding the received radio frequency data from multiple transducers. A framework is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Laura Peralta , Alberto Gomez , Ying Luan , Baehyung Kim , Joseph V. Hajnal , Robert J. Eckersley

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT), also known as optoacoustic tomography, is an emerging imaging modality that has great potential for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications. In this Note, we derive a hybrid reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Kun Wang , Mark A. Anastasio

Three-dimensional ultrasound enables real-time volumetric visualization of anatomical structures. Unlike traditional 2D ultrasound, 3D imaging reduces reliance on precise probe orientation, potentially making ultrasound more accessible to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Oisín Nolan , Oudom Somphone , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun