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In pulse-echo ultrasound, aberration often degrades image quality when beamforming does not account for wavefront distortions. To address this issue, local sound speed estimators have been developed in the past decade for distributed…
Ultrasound (US) imaging is better suited for intraoperative settings because it is real-time and more portable than other imaging techniques, such as mammography. However, US images are characterized by lower spatial resolution noise-like…
For beamforming ultrasound (US) signals, typically a spatially constant speed-of-sound (SoS) is assumed to calculate delays. As SoS in tissue may vary relatively largely, this approximation may cause wavefront aberrations, thus degrading…
In ultrasound imaging, propagation of an acoustic wavefront through heterogeneous media causes phase aberrations that degrade the coherence of the reflected wavefront, leading to reduced image resolution and contrast. Adaptive imaging…
Due to its non-invasive and non-radiating nature, along with its low cost, ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in medical applications. Typical B-mode US images have limited resolution and contrast and weak physical interpretation.…
This is the second article in a series of two which report on a matrix approach for ultrasound imaging in heterogeneous media. This article describes the quantification and correction of aberration, i.e. the distortion of an image caused by…
Beamforming in plane-wave imaging (PWI) is an essential step in creating images with optimal quality. Adaptive methods estimate the apodization weights from echo traces acquired by several transducer elements. Herein, we formulate…
Focusing waves inside inhomogeneous media is a fundamental problem for imaging. Spatial variations of wave velocity can strongly distort propagating wavefronts and degrade image quality. Adaptive focusing can compensate for such aberration,…
High contrast imaging (HCI) systems rely on active wavefront control (WFC) to deliver deep raw contrast in the focal plane, and on calibration techniques to further enhance contrast by identifying planet light within the residual speckle…
Ultrasound (US) image segmentation embraced its significant improvement in deep learning era. However, the lack of sharp boundaries in US images still remains an inherent challenge for segmentation. Previous methods often resort to global…
Imaging with optical resolution through highly scattering media is a long sought-after goal with important applications in deep tissue imaging. Although being the focus of numerous works, this goal was considered impractical until recently.…
Divergent wave imaging with coherent compounding allows obtaining broad field of view and higher frame rate with respect to line by line insonification. However, the spatial and contrast resolution crucially depends on the weights applied…
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging imaging modality that holds great promise for breast imaging. Full-waveform inversion (FWI)-based image reconstruction methods incorporate accurate wave physics to produce high spatial…
Medical ultrasound (US) is a widespread imaging modality owing its popularity to cost efficiency, portability, speed, and lack of harmful ionizing radiation. In this paper, we demonstrate that replacing the traditional ultrasound processing…
A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…
Coherent Plane Wave Compounding (CPWC) is widely used for ultrasound imaging. This technique involves sending plane waves into a sample at different transmit angles and recording the resultant backscattered echo at different receive…
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for imaging subsurface properties using sparsely recorded data. It involves solving a wave propagation problem to estimate model parameters that accurately reproduce the data. Recent…
The purpose of this work is to demonstrate a robust and clinically validated method for correcting sound speed aberrations in medical ultrasound. We propose a correction method that calculates focusing delays directly from the observed…
This work proposes the use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) waves to improve the performance of a computational imaging (CI) system. Specifically, in contrast to a solely frequency-diverse operation, leveraging multiple OAM waves leads to…
Sound speed heterogeneities can create aberrations in B-mode ultrasound images by inducing tissue-dependent delays and diffractive effects that conventional beamforming does not incorporate. By using the Fourier split-step method to…