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 …

Anatomic and functional imaging using row–column arrays

JA Jensen, M Schou, LT Jørgensen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Row–column (RC) arrays have the potential to yield full 3-D ultrasound imaging with a
greatly reduced number of elements compared to fully populated arrays. They, however …

Experimental 3-D ultrasound imaging with 2-D sparse arrays using focused and diverging waves

E Roux, F Varray, L Petrusca, C Cachard, P Tortoli… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Three dimensional ultrasound (3-D US) imaging methods based on 2-D array probes are
increasingly investigated. However, the experimental test of new 3-D US approaches is …

Ultrafast 3-D ultrasound imaging using row–column array-specific frame-multiply-and-sum beamforming

J Hansen-Shearer, M Lerendegui… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Row–column arrays have been shown to be able to generate 3-D ultrafast ultrasound
images with an order of magnitude less independent electronic channels than traditional 2 …

Imaging performance for two row–column arrays

H Bouzari, M Engholm, SI Nikolov… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study evaluates the volumetric imaging performance of two prototyped 62+ 62 row-
column-addressed (RCA) 2-D array transducer probes using three synthetic aperture …

3D synthetic aperture imaging with a therapeutic spherical random phased array for transcostal applications

M Zubair, RJ Dickinson - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental validation of a synthetic aperture imaging technique using a therapeutic
random phased array is described, demonstrating the dual nature of imaging and therapy of …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast 3-D Transcutaneous Super Resolution Ultrasound Using Row-Column Array Specific Coherence-Based Beamforming and Rolling Acoustic Sub …

J Hansen-Shearer, J Yan, M Lerendegui… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to realise 3-D super-resolution ultrasound imaging
transcutaneously with a row-column array which has far fewer independent electronic …

Real-time 3-D spectral Doppler analysis with a sparse spiral array

A Ramalli, E Boni, C Giangrossi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2-D sparse arrays may push the development of low-cost 3-D systems, not needing to
control thousands of elements by expensive application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) …

Increasing the field-of-view of row–column-addressed ultrasound transducers: implementation of a diverging compound lens

M Engholm, C Beers, H Bouzari, JA Jensen… - Ultrasonics, 2018 - Elsevier
The purpose of this work is to investigate compound lenses for row-column-addressed
(RCA) ultrasound transducers for increasing the field-of-view (FOV) to a curvilinear volume …

Curvilinear 3-D imaging using row–column-addressed 2-D arrays with a diverging lens: Phantom study

H Bouzari, M Engholm, C Beers… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A double-curved diverging lens over the flat row-column-addressed (RCA) 2-D array can
extend its inherent rectilinear 3-D imaging field of view (FOV) to a curvilinear volume region …