Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging

A Fenster, DB Downey… - Physics in medicine & …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasound is an inexpensive and widely used imaging modality for the diagnosis and
staging of a number of diseases. In the past two decades, it has benefited from major …

3-D ultrasound imaging: A review

A Fenster, DB Downey - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of 3-D ultrasound imaging is a way to address the disadvantages of
conventional ultrasound imaging. In this article the authors review approaches that have …

Metamaterial bricks and quantization of meta-surfaces

G Memoli, M Caleap, M Asakawa, DR Sahoo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Controlling acoustic fields is crucial in diverse applications such as loudspeaker design,
ultrasound imaging and therapy or acoustic particle manipulation. The current approaches …

A sparse aperture MIMO-SAR-based UWB imaging system for concealed weapon detection

X Zhuge, AG Yarovoy - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-resolution imaging system based on the combination of ultrawideband (UWB)
transmission, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) array, and synthetic aperture radar …

Phase coherence imaging

J Camacho, M Parrilla, C Fritsch - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method for grating and side lobes suppression in ultrasound images is presented. It is
based on an analysis of the phase diversity at the aperture data. Two coherence factors …

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers: Next-generation arrays for acoustic imaging?

O Oralkan, AS Ergun, JA Johnson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric materials have dominated the ultrasonic transducer technology. Recently,
capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have emerged as an alternative …

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 …

Real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging using sparse synthetic aperture beamforming

GR Lockwood, JR Talman… - IEEE transactions on …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method for real-time three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound imaging using a mechanically
scanned linear phased array is proposed. The high frame rate necessary for real-time …

Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging

TR Nelson, DH Pretorius - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 1998 - Elsevier
The objective of this article is to provide scientists, engineers and clinicians with an up-to–
date overview on the current state of development in the area of three-dimensional …