Superharmonic imaging for medical ultrasound: A review

ND Londhe, JS Suri - Journal of medical systems, 2016 - Springer
Ultrasound with harmonics has emerged as an exceptional alternative to competitively low
resolution fundamental ultrasound imaging. The use of second harmonic is already a trend …

Implementing capon beamforming on a GPU for real-time cardiac ultrasound imaging

JP Asen, JI Buskenes, CIC Nilsen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capon beamforming is associated with a high computational complexity, which limits its use
as a real-time method in many applications. In this paper, we present an implementation of …

Accelerated 2-D real-time refraction-corrected transcranial ultrasound imaging

M Mozaffarzadeh, DJE Verschuur… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a recent study, we proposed a technique to correct aberration caused by the skull and
reconstruct a transcranial B-mode image with a refraction-corrected synthetic aperture …

GPU-based minimum variance beamformer for synthetic aperture imaging of the eye

BYS Yiu, CH Alfred - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Minimum variance (MV) beamforming has emerged as an adaptive apodization approach to
bolster the quality of images generated from synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging methods …

Correlation-based ultrasound imaging of strong reflectors with phase coherence filtering

M Bilodeau, N Quaegebeur, A Berry, P Masson - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
Two main metrics are usually employed to assess the quality of medical ultrasound (US)
images, namely the contrast and the spatial resolution. A number of imaging algorithms …

Design and implementation of a multi-octave-band audio camera for realtime diagnosis

C Vanwynsberghe, R Marchiano, F Ollivier… - Applied Acoustics, 2015 - Elsevier
Noise pollution investigation takes advantage of two common methods of diagnosis:
measurement using a Sound Level Meter and acoustical imaging. The former enables a …

An optimized GPU implementation of the MVDR beamformer for active sonar imaging

JI Buskenes, JP Åsen, CIC Nilsen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer has recently been
proposed as an attractive alternative to conventional beamformers in active sonar imaging …

Fast minimum variance beamforming based on legendre polynomials

MH Bae, SB Park, SJ Kwon - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, minimum variance beamforming (MV) is actively investigated as a method that
can improve the performance of an ultrasound beamformer, in terms of the lateral and …

Adaptive windowing in contrast-enhanced intravascular ultrasound imaging

BD Lindsey, KH Martin, X Jiang, PA Dayton - Ultrasonics, 2016 - Elsevier
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is one of the most commonly-used interventional imaging
techniques and has seen recent innovations which attempt to characterize the risk posed by …

Understanding contrast improvements from capon beamforming

OMH Rindal, JP Åsen, S Holm… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the contrast improvements seen when using adaptive (Capon)
beamforming to create ultrasound images. Ultrasound images of cysts have been simulated …