Title :
A new ultrasonic Synthetic Aperture tissue Harmonic imaging system
Author :
Bae, Moo-Ho ; Lee, Han-Woo ; Park, Sung Bae ; Yoon, Ra-Young ; Jeong, Min Hye ; Kim, Deok Gon ; Jeong, Mok-Kun ; Kim, Yung-Gil
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Hallym Univ., Chuncheon
Abstract :
This paper presents a research for enhancing B-mode image quality using both of synthetic aperture imaging and tissue harmonic imaging in the medical ultrasound imaging. Synthetic aperture imaging has been actively researched until recently for improving spatial resolution and contrast resolution of the ultrasound image. Tissue harmonic imaging also has been actively researched with a similar purpose however way of approach is quite different. Thus it can be predicted that if both methods are appropriately combined, improved image quality is obtained and it has been proven by experiment. Experimental data is acquired from Medison´s Accuvix system and acquired RF echo data from the human body and the phantom are processed off-line.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical ultrasonics; data acquisition; harmonics; image enhancement; image resolution; medical image processing; B-mode image quality enhancement; Medison Accuvix system; RF echo data; contrast resolution; medical ultrasound imaging; spatial resolution; synthetic aperture imaging; tissue harmonic imaging; Biomedical imaging; Focusing; Frequency; Image quality; Image resolution; Sonar equipment; Spatial resolution; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Voltage; BiPBF; snthetic aperture iaging; tssue harmonic iaging;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 2008. IUS 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2428-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2480-1
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.2008.0304