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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…

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We address the problem of estimating depth with multi modal audio visual data. Inspired by the ability of animals, such as bats and dolphins, to infer distance of objects with echolocation, some recent methods have utilized echoes for depth…

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Simulations of three dimensional ultrasound propagation in heterogeneous media are computationally intensive due to the constraints arising from the large size of the domain, which is on the order of hundreds of wavelengths, and the small…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Gianmarco Pinton

We report on the detection of diffraction gratings buried below a stack of tens of 18 nm thick $\mathrm{SiO_2}$ and $\mathrm{Si_3N_4}$ layers and an optically opaque metal layer, using laser-induced, extremely-high frequency ultrasound. In…

While Atomic Force Microscopy is mostly used to investigate surface properties, people have almost since its invention sought to apply its high resolution capability to image also structures buried within samples. One of the earliest…

Airborne 3D imaging using ultrasound is a promising sensing modality for robotic applications in harsh environments. Over the last decade, several high-performance systems have been proposed in the literature. Most of these sensors use a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Dennis Laurijssen , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

Robotic ultrasound has the potential to assist and guide physicians during interventions. In this work, we present a set of methods and a workflow to enable autonomous MRI-guided ultrasound acquisitions. Our approach uses a structured-light…

In optical tomography a physical body is illuminated with near-infrared light and the resulting outward photon flux is measured at the object boundary. The goal is to reconstruct internal optical properties of the body, such as absorption…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Antti Hannukainen , Lauri Harhanen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Helle Majander

We propose a focusing method of intense midair ultrasound out of ultrasonic emission from a single flexurally vibrating square plate partially covered with a purposely designed amplitude mask. Many applications relying on nonlinear acoustic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Keisuke Hasegawa , Masaya Fujimori , Masaya Takasaki

The Talbot effect, in which a wave imprinted with transverse periodicity reconstructs itself at regular intervals, is a diffraction phenomenon that occurs in many physical systems. Here we present the first observation of the Talbot effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin J. McMorran , Alexander D. Cronin

Ultrasound imaging is a widely used, non-invasive diagnostic tool in modern medicine. A crucial assumption is a constant sound speed in the observed medium. For large scale sound speed variations, this assumption leads to blurred and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Simon Hackl , Simon Hubmer , Ronny Ramlau

Ultrasound imaging has been improving, but continues to suffer from inherent artifacts that are challenging to model, such as attenuation, shadowing, diffraction, speckle, etc. These artifacts can potentially confuse image analysis…

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

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

Simulations of light scattering off an extreme ultraviolet lithography mask with a 2D-periodic absorber pattern are presented. In a detailed convergence study it is shown that accurate results can be attained for relatively large 3D…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-31 S. Burger , L. Zschiedrich , J. Pomplun , F. Schmidt

In this study, a method for readily and inexpensively generating real-time reconfigurable intense midair ultrasound field is proposed. Recent investigations and applications of midair convergent high-power ultrasound have been increasingly…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Keisuke Hasegawa

We introduce an absorption imaging technique for ultracold gases that suppresses interference fringes and coherence-induced artifacts by reducing the transverse spatial coherence of the imaging light. The method preserves the narrow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-16 Julia Fekete , Poppy Joshi , Peter Krüger , Fedja Oručević

Imaging of surface adsorbed molecules is investigated as a novel detection method for matter wave interferometry with fluorescent particles. Mechanically magnified fluorescence imaging turns out to be an excellent tool for recording quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Stibor , Andre Stefanov , Fabienne Goldfarb , Elisabeth Reiger , Markus Arndt

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

X-ray computed tomography is a powerful tool for volumetric imaging, where three-dimensional (3D) images are generated from a large number of individual X-ray projection images. Collecting the required number of low noise projection images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Zhenduo Shang , Thomas Blumensath

Emerging technology based on artificial materials containing metallic structures has raised the prospect for unprecedented control of terahertz waves through components like filters, absorbers and polarizers. The functionality of these…