1. Extended aperture image reconstruction for plane-wave imaging.
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Nguon, Leang Sim and Park, Suhyun
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IMAGE reconstruction , *IMAGING phantoms , *ULTRASONIC imaging , *CAROTID artery , *SIGNAL-to-noise ratio , *IN vivo studies - Abstract
• A deep learning-based extended aperture image reconstruction method is proposed to overcome aperture limit. • Signals from limited and full-apertures were used as input and target, respectively, to train the proposed method. • The proposed image reconstruction method is evaluated by simulation, experimental data, and in vivo studies. • Our reconstruction method significantly improves the image quality of the boundary region in plane-wave ultrasound imaging. B-mode images undergo degradation in the boundary region because of the limited number of elements in the ultrasound probe. Herein, a deep learning-based extended aperture image reconstruction method is proposed to reconstruct a B-mode image with an enhanced boundary region. The proposed network can reconstruct an image using pre-beamformed raw data received from the half-aperture of the probe. To generate a high-quality training target without degradation in the boundary region, the target data were acquired using the full-aperture. Training data were acquired from an experimental study using a tissue-mimicking phantom, vascular phantom, and simulation of random point scatterers. Compared with plane-wave images from delay and sum beamforming, the proposed extended aperture image reconstruction method achieves improvement at the boundary region in terms of the multi-scale structure of similarity and peak signal-to-noise ratio by 8% and 4.10 dB in resolution evaluation phantom, 7% and 3.15 dB in contrast speckle phantom, and 5% and 3 dB in in vivo study of carotid artery imaging. The findings in this study prove the feasibility of a deep learning-based extended aperture image reconstruction method for boundary region improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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