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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…
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…
This report details the successful construction of an ultrasound imaging platform and the design and fabrication of a novel ultrasound endoscope probe. The projects primary objective was to establish a functional system for acquiring and…
Medical ultrasound imaging is the most widespread real-time non-invasive imaging system and its formulation comprises signal transmission, signal reception, and image formation. Ultrasound signal transmission modelling has been formalized…
With the rise of data-driven ultrasound imaging technologies, realistic simulation of ultrasound fields and radio-frequency data is becoming increasingly important. Accurate transducer characterization is crucial for realistic simulations.…
Ultrasound technology is crucial in diagnostic imaging, making it widely used in medical applications. However, traditional ultrasound transducers face limitations in flexibility and ease of fabrication, leading to the exploration of…
Fast imaging methods are needed to promote widespread clinical adoption of Ultrasound Tomography (UST), and more widely available UST hardware could support the experimental validation of new measurement configurations. In this work, an…
Ultrasound imaging, as a noninvasive, real-time, and low-cost modality, plays a vital role in clinical diagnosis, catheterization intervention, and portable devices. With the development of transducer hardware and the continuous progress of…
Focused transmits are the most commonly used transmit strategy for echocardiograms, but suffer from relatively low frame rates, and in 3D, even lower volume rates. Fast imaging based on unfocused transmits has disadvantages such as motion…
Signals comprised of a stream of short pulses appear in many applications including bio-imaging and radar. The recent finite rate of innovation framework, has paved the way to low rate sampling of such pulses by noticing that only a small…
This work explores the feasibility of employing ultrasound (US) US technology in a wrist-worn IoT device for low-power, high-fidelity heart-rate (HR) extraction. US offers deep tissue penetration and can monitor pulsatile arterial blood…
The local beat-to-beat local pulse pressure (PP) and blood pressure waveform of arteries, especially central arteries, are important indicators of the course of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Nevertheless, noninvasive measurement of them…
Robot-assisted ultrasound scanning promises to advance autonomous and accessible medical imaging. However, ensuring patient safety and compliant human-robot interaction (HRI) during probe contact poses a significant challenge. Most existing…
Ultrasound-matter interactions underpin numerous biomedical and soft-matter applications, yet simulating these phenomena is challenging due to the large separation of viscous and sonic time scales. Continuum methods capture large-scale wave…
We propose a portable cartridge based lab-on-a-chip platform. The main sensing mechanism uses high frequency acoustic waves. Feasibility of two different transducers has been investigated for biological measurements. We used zincoxide (ZnO)…
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…
The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…
Arterial Blood Pressure wave monitoring is considered to be important in assessment of cardiovascular system. We developed a novel pulse wave detection system using low frequency specific piezoelectric material as pressure wave sensor. The…
Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have…
Emerging sonography techniques often require increasing the number of transducer elements involved in the imaging process. Consequently, larger amounts of data must be acquired and processed. The significant growth in the amounts of data…