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Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising medical imaging modality providing the spatial resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging and the contrast of pure optical imaging. For linear-array PAI, a beamformer has to be used as the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Yan Yan , Mohammad Mehrmohammadi , Bahador Makkiabadi

In Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), the most prevalent beamforming algorithm is delay-and-sum (DAS) due to its simple implementation. However, it results in a low quality image affected by the high level of sidelobes. Coherence factor (CF) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-10 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Mohammad Mehrmohammadi , Bahador Makkiabadi

One of the common algorithms used to reconstruct photoacoustic (PA) images is the non-adaptive Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer. However, the quality of the reconstructed PA images obtained by DAS is not satisfying due to its high level of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Roya Paridar , Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki , Mahdi Orooji

In Photoacoustic imaging (PA), Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer is a common beamforming algorithm having a simple implementation. However, it results in a poor resolution and high sidelobes. To address these challenges, a new algorithm namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji , Karl Kratkiewicz , Saba Adabi , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki

Linear-array based photoacoustic images are reconstructed using the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming method. Although the DAS beamformer is well suited for PA image formation, reconstructed images are often afflicted by noises,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sufayan Mulani , Souradip Paul , Mayanglambam Suheshkumar Singh

Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer is the most common beamforming algorithm in Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) due to its simple implementation and real time imaging. However, it provides poor resolution and high levels of sidelobe. A new algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-22 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji

In-air acoustic imaging systems demand beamforming techniques that offer a high dynamic range and spatial resolution while also remaining robust. Conventional Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamforming fails to meet these quality demands due to high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Wouter Jansen , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality capable of providing both high contrast and high resolution of optical and UltraSound (US) imaging. When a short duration laser pulse illuminates the tissue as a target…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-19 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging medical imaging modality capable of providing high spatial resolution of Ultrasound (US) imaging and high contrast of optical imaging. Delay-and-Sum (DAS) is the most common beamforming algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji , Saba Adabi , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki

Delay-and-sum (DAS) is the most widespread digital beamformer in high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging. Its implementation is simple and compatible with real-time applications. In this viewpoint article, we describe the fundamentals of DAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Vincent Perrot , Maxime Polichetti , François Varray , Damien Garcia

Delay-and-Sum (DAS) is the most common algorithm used in photoacoustic (PA) image formation. However, this algorithm results in a reconstructed image with a wide mainlobe and high level of sidelobes. Minimum variance (MV), as an adaptive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-11 Roya Paridar , Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Mohammad Mehrmohammadi , Mahdi Orooji

In this paper, a novel and robust algorithm is proposed for adaptive beamforming based on the idea of reconstructing the autocorrelation sequence (ACS) of a random process from a set of measured data. This is obtained from the first column…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Vitor H. Nascimento , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Osman Kukrer

Delay and sum (DAS) is the most common beamforming algorithm in linear-array photoacoustic imaging (PAI) as a result of its simple implementation. However, it leads to a low resolution and high sidelobes. Delay multiply and sum (DMAS) was…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-23 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki , Mahdi Orooji

Delay and Sum (DAS), as the most common beamforming algorithm in Photoacoustic Imaging (PAI), having a simple implementation, results in a low-quality image. Delay Multiply and Sum (DMAS) was introduced to improve the quality of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-14 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Seyed Amin Ollah Izadi Avanji , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji

In ultrasound (US) imaging, various types of adaptive beamforming techniques have been investigated to improve the resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio of the delay and sum (DAS) beamformers. Unfortunately, the performance of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Typically, an ultrasound flow imaging system employs the conventional delay and sum (DAS) beamformer due to its inherent low complexity. But the conventional DAS technique offers poor contrast, low imaging resolution, and limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 A. N. Madhavanunni , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

Conventional ultrasound (US) imaging employs the delay and sum (DAS) receive beamforming with dynamic receive focus for image reconstruction due to its simplicity and robustness. However, the DAS beamforming follows a geometrical method of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 M. S. Asif , Gayathri Malamal , A. N. Madhavanunni , Vikram Melapudi , V Rahul , Abhijit Patil , Rajesh Langoju , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

In Ultrasound (US) imaging, Delay and Sum (DAS) is the most common beamformer, but it leads to low quality images. Delay Multiply and Sum (DMAS) was introduced to address this problem. However, the reconstructed images using DMAS still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-19 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Masume Sadeghi , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji

Power Doppler ultrasound is in widespread clinical use for non-invasive vascular imaging but the most common current method - Delay and Sum (DAS) beamforming - suffers from limited resolution and high side-lobes. Here we propose the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Matthieu Toulemonde , Cameron A. B. Smith , Kai Riemer , Priya Palanisamy , Jaideep Singh Rait , Laura Taylor , Peter D. Weinberg , Karina Cox , Meng-Xing Tang

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye
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