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Ultrasound Simulations using REC and SAFT
Presenter:Tony Podkowa
November 13, 2012
Advisor: Dr José R. SánchezDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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OutlineI. Introduction
II. Project Summary
III. Block Diagram
IV. Preliminary Work
V. Schedule
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OutlineI. Introduction
II. Project Summary
III. Block Diagram
IV. Preliminary Work
V. Schedule
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Introduction
Medical Applications Tumor detection Blood flow imaging Cardiac imaging
Piezoelectric Transducer Ultrasonic Pulses Tissue Density reflects Pulses
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OutlineI. Introduction
II. Project Summary
III. Block Diagram
IV. Preliminary Work
V. Schedule
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Project Summary
Specialized techniques improve image resolution and SNR.
Resolution Enhancement Compression (REC) Improves Axial Resolution and SNR
Synthetic Aperture Focusing Techniques (SAFT) Improve Lateral Resolution and SNR
Goal: To simulate the combination of both REC and SAFT in
an ultrasound system using the Matlab addon Field II.
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OutlineI. Introduction
II. Project Summary
III. Block Diagram
IV. Preliminary Work
V. Schedule
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System Block Diagram
REC Transducer SAFT
Vin(t)Vpc(t)
ImageRecon.
Image Output
Vlc(t)
Received Echo Signals
Beamformed Signals
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Resolution Enhancement Compression
Pulse Compression Technique Uses Convolution Equivalence Exchange the transducer impulse response a desired
response Increases bandwidth Better resolution
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Source:M. Oelze, “Bandwidth and Resolution Enhancement through Pulse Compression,” IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelec. and Freq. Control, vol. 54, pp. 768–781, Apr. 2007. 10
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REC Subsystem
WaveformGenerator
Vulc(f) Vpc(f)TukeyWindow
Vlc(f)
)(
)(
fH
fH
t
d
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fH
fH
d
t
Vupc(f)
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System Block Diagram
REC Transducer SAFT
Vin(t)Vpc(t)
ImageRecon.
Image Output
Vlc(t)
Received Echo Signals
Beamformed Signals
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Transducer
Linear Array Transducer consisting of several elements
Capable of emitting and receiving ultrasonic pulses
Generates several signals to be processed to form an image.
S. I. Nikolov, Synthetic Aperture Tissue and Flow Ultrasound Imaging. PhD thesis, Technical University of Denmark, Aug. 2001.13
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Transducer Specifications
256 Elements 3 MHz Center Frequency 200 MHz Sampling Frequency 4 mm Element Height 0.26 mm Element Width 0.04 mm Element Kerf 20 mm Focus
Height
Width
Kerf
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System Block Diagram
REC Transducer SAFT
Received Echo Signals
Vin(t)Vpc(t)
ImageRecon.
Beamformed Signals
Image Output
Vlc(t)
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Synthetic Aperture Focusing Techniques
Electrically focuses signals to create an artificial aperture.
Uses different excitation schemes Three Variations:
Generic Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound (GSAU) Synthetic Transmit Aperture Ultrasound (STAU) Synthetic Receive Aperture Ultrasound (SRAU)
Results generated by delay and sum beamforming.
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GSAU
Transmit with one and receive with one.
Each transmit event generates a low resolution image.
Information needs to be delayed appropriately for each pixel before summing.
Gain in SNR:
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xr
ippi
||2)(
ipx
pr
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ipip xrx
)(10log )SNR
SNR(10log GSNR 1010
0eN
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STAU
Transmit with one and receive with all.
Additional degree of freedom Gain in SNR:
c
xxr
jpippi
||||)(
ipx
pr
jpx
)(10log GSNR 210 eN
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SRAU
Transmit with all and receive with one.
Gain in SNR:
c
rxr
pippi
||||)(
ipx
pr)(10log GSNR 3
10 eN
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SAFT
Delay and SumBeamforming
Apodization
Image Scan Lines
Received Echo Signals
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Apodization
Spatial Windowing Used to shape the beam
profile Reweighting by apodization
coefficients Several different windowing
techniques can be studied Rectangular Triangular Raised Cosine
a1
a2
aN
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System Block Diagram
REC Transducer SAFT
Received Echo Signals
Vin(t)Vpc(t)
ImageRecon.
Beamformed Signals
Image Output
Vlc(t)
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Image Reconstruction Subsystem
WienerFilter
Envelope Detection
Logarithmic Compression
Limiter
Beamformed Signal Image
Scan Line
Vlc(t)
)(SNR|)(|
)()(
1-2
*
ffV
fVf
lc
lcREC
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OutlineI. Introduction
II. Project Summary
III. Block Diagram
IV. Preliminary Work
V. Schedule
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Preliminary Work
Image Reconstruction subsystem completed. STAU partially completed
Conventional pulsing instead of REC Individual low resolution images generated. Output image generated. Rectangular apodization 64 elements instead of 256
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Individual STAU Images
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Effect of Beamforming
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OutlineI. Introduction
II. Project Summary
III. Block Diagram
IV. Preliminary Work
V. Schedule
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Schedule
1/28 – 2/8: REC 2/11 – 2/22: GPGPU implementation of STAU 2/25 – 3/8: GSAU 3/11 – 3/29: SRAU 4/1 – 4/12: Prepare for Student Scholarship Expo 4/15 – 4/19: Expo 4/22 – 5/3: Write Final Report & Presentation
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Ultrasound Simulations using REC and SAFT
Presenter:Tony Podkowa
November 13, 2012
Advisor: Dr José R. SánchezDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Generic Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound
Object
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Generic Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound
Object
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Matched Filter
ADCPre-
amplifierMatched
filter
Echo Signal
SAFTA Reconstructed image
A
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