Title :
Adaptive aberration correction using PARCA
Author :
Krishnan, S. ; Rigby, K.W. ; Donnell, M.O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
The Parallel Adaptive Receive Compensation Algorithm (PARCA) uses multiple receive beams to compensate for imperfect beam forming. Previous studies demonstrated that PARCA can correct for controlled aberrations in tissue equivalent phantoms. Here, we have applied PARCA to human abdominal scans. Images were acquired from volunteers with a modified real-time scanner using a 1-D, 128 element, 26.2 mm array operating at 3.75 MHz, with 236 beams comprising a frame. For each transmit beam, 118 receive beams were reconstructed and processed to produce a single compensated A-scan. PARCA processed images show increased contrast between blood vessels and tissue and improved overall image quality. These images demonstrate the effectiveness of PARCA on clinical ultrasound images degraded by aberrations
Keywords :
aberrations; acoustic signal processing; adaptive signal processing; biomedical ultrasonics; image reconstruction; medical image processing; parallel processing; ultrasonic transducer arrays; 1-D 128 element 26.2 mm array; 118 receive beams; 236 beams; 26.2 mm; 3.75 MHz; PARCA; PARCA processed images; Parallel Adaptive Receive Compensation Algorithm; adaptive aberration correction; blood vessels; clinical ultrasound images; contrast; controlled aberrations; human abdominal scans; image quality; imperfect beam forming; modified real-time scanner; multiple receive beams; single compensated A-scan; tissue; tissue equivalent phantoms; transmit beam; volunteers; Abdomen; Blood vessels; Degradation; Distortion measurement; Humans; Image quality; Image reconstruction; Imaging phantoms; Scattering; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3615-1
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.1996.584299