Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography is the most widely used noninvasive
imaging modality for the evaluation and diagnosis of cardiac pathology. However, because …

This paper presents a method for optimizing parameters affecting the image quality in plane
wave imaging. More specifically, the number of emissions and steering angles is optimized …

Ultrafast imaging modes, such as coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC), increase
image uniformity and reduce grating lobe artifacts by dynamic receive apertures. The focal …

Convex probes have been widely used in clinical abdominal imaging for providing deep
penetration and wide field of view. Ultrafast imaging modalities have been studied …

A high volume rate and high performance ultrasound imaging method based on a matrix
array is proposed by using compressed sensing (CS) to reconstruct the complete dataset of …

Plane wave (PW) imaging is a commonly used method for tracking waves during shear
wave elasticity imaging (SWEI), but its unfocused transmission beam reduces tracking …

Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to pro vide a staggered multichannel
transducer in a ranging sys tem configured to perform remote sensing. The staggered …

Echocardiographic image sequences are frequently corrupted by quasi-static artifacts
(“clutter”) superimposed on the moving myocardium. Conventionally, localized blind source …

A method of suppression of grating lobes is presented, analyzed, and verified. The method
is based on creating a Virtual Receiving Subaperture (VRS) by adding virtual transducer …

Generally, the grating-lobe artifacts can be avoided with array pitch smaller than one half of
wavelength; however, due to cost or physical limitations, such a condition is hard to be …