Design, implementation, and medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays

A Ramalli, E Boni, E Roux, H Liebgott… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultrasound sparse array consists of a sparse distribution of elements over a 2-D aperture.
Such an array is typically characterized by a limited number of elements, which in most …

Flexible ultrasound-induced retinal stimulating piezo-arrays for biomimetic visual prostheses

L Jiang, G Lu, Y Zeng, Y Sun, H Kang, J Burford… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electronic visual prostheses, or biomimetic eyes, have shown the feasibility of restoring
functional vision in the blind through electrical pulses to initiate neural responses artificially …

Speckle noise reduction in ultrasound images for improving the metrological evaluation of biomedical applications: an overview

CA Duarte-Salazar, AE Castro-Ospina… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, many studies have examined filters for eliminating or reducing speckle
noise, which is inherent to ultrasound images, in order to improve the metrological …

Sketch guided and progressive growing GAN for realistic and editable ultrasound image synthesis

J Liang, X Yang, Y Huang, H Li, S He, X Hu… - Medical image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used for anatomical structure inspection in clinical
diagnosis. The training of new sonographers and deep learning based algorithms for US …

A new 15–50 MHz array-based micro-ultrasound scanner for preclinical imaging

FS Foster, J Mehi, M Lukacs, D Hirson, C White… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2009 - Elsevier
Most institutions now have a suite of imaging tools to follow mouse models of human
disease. Micro-ultrasound is one of these tools and is second after whole-mouse …

Feature-conditioned cascaded video diffusion models for precise echocardiogram synthesis

H Reynaud, M Qiao, M Dombrowski, T Day… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Image synthesis is expected to provide value for the translation of machine learning
methods into clinical practice. Fundamental problems like model robustness, domain …

Longitudinal iso-phase condition and needle pulses

KJ Parker, MA Alonso - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We study the properties of pulsed solutions to the scalar and vector wave equations
composed of plane-waves with equal longitudinal spatial frequency. This condition …

Flexible ultrasound transceiver array for non-invasive surface-conformable imaging enabled by geometric phase correction

J Elloian, J Jadwiszczak, V Arslan, JD Sherman… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrasound imaging provides the means for non-invasive real-time diagnostics of the internal
structure of soft tissue in living organisms. However, the majority of commercially available …

Local sound speed estimation for pulse-echo ultrasound in layered media

R Ali, AV Telichko, H Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our previous methodology in local sound speed estimation utilized time delays measured by
the cross correlation of delayed full-synthetic aperture channel data to estimate the average …

3-D speckle tracking for assessment of regional left ventricular function

J Crosby, BH Amundsen, T Hergum, EW Remme… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2009 - Elsevier
Speckle tracking in 2-D ultrasound images has become an established tool for assessment
of left ventricular function. The recent development of ultrasound systems with capability to …