Smart Sensors and Microtechnologies in the Precision Medicine Approach against Lung Cancer

GM Stella, S Lettieri, D Piloni, I Ferrarotti, F Perrotta… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background and rationale. The therapeutic interventions against lung cancer are currently
based on a fully personalized approach to the disease with considerable improvement of …

Fast volumetric ultrasound facilitates high-resolution 3D mapping of tissue compartments

EY Park, X Cai, J Foiret, H Bendjador, D Hyun… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Volumetric ultrasound imaging has the potential for operator-independent acquisition and
enhanced field of view. Panoramic acquisition has many applications across ultrasound; …

[HTML][HTML] An aberration correction approach for single and dual aperture ultrasound imaging of the abdomen

VHJ Van Hal, JW Muller, MRHM Van Sambeek… - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abdominal ultrasound image quality is hampered by phase aberration, that is mainly caused
by the large speed-of-sound (SoS) differences between fat and muscle tissue in the …

Coherent bistatic 3-d ultrasound imaging using two sparse matrix arrays

H De Hoop, M Vermeulen, HM Schwab… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade, many advances have been made in high frame rate 3-D ultrasound
imaging, including more flexible acquisition systems, transmit (TX) sequences, and …

Implementation of constrained swept synthetic aperture using a mechanical fixture

N Bottenus - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Resolution and target detectability in ultrasound imaging are directly tied to the size of the
imaging array. This is particularly important for imaging at depth, such as in the detection …

Extended aperture image reconstruction for plane-wave imaging

LS Nguon, S Park - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
B-mode images undergo degradation in the boundary region because of the limited number
of elements in the ultrasound probe. Herein, a deep learning-based extended aperture …

In vivo bistatic dual-aperture ultrasound imaging and elastography of the abdominal aorta

VHJ van Hal, H de Hoop, MRHM van Sambeek… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: In this paper we introduce in vivo multi-aperture ultrasound imaging and
elastography of the abdominal aorta. Monitoring of the geometry and growth of abdominal …

Random matrix theory-based Wiener postfilter combined with eigenspace and spatial coherence-based minimum variance beamformer for coherent plane-wave …

Y Wang, S Feng, J Pan, C Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive beamforming technology is an effective approach to improve the image quality of
coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC). However, when the number of tilted plane …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing abdominal aortic aneurysm curvature visibility using 3D dual probe bistatic ultrasound imaging combined with probe translation

LC Jansen, S Fekkes, HM Schwab, RGP Lopata - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
High frame rate ultrasound (US) imaging techniques in 3D are promising tools for capturing
abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) over time, however, with the limited number of channel …

Improvement in Multi-Angle Plane Wave Image Quality Using Minimum Variance Beamforming with Adaptive Signal Coherence

CC Shen, CL Huang - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
For ultrasound multi-angle plane wave (PW) imaging, the coherent PW compounding
(CPWC) method provides limited image quality because of its conventional delay-and-sum …