Ultrasonic arrays for non-destructive evaluation: A review

BW Drinkwater, PD Wilcox - NDT & e International, 2006 - Elsevier
An ultrasonic array is a single transducer that contains a number of individually connected
elements. Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of ultrasonic arrays for …

Synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

JA Jensen, SI Nikolov, KL Gammelmark, MH Pedersen - Ultrasonics, 2006 - Elsevier
The paper describes the use of synthetic aperture (SA) imaging in medical ultrasound. SA
imaging is a radical break with today's commercial systems, where the image is acquired …

Coherent plane wave compounding for very high frame rate ultrasonography of rapidly moving targets

B Denarie, TA Tangen, IK Ekroll… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coherent plane wave compounding is a promising technique for achieving very high frame
rate imaging without compromising image quality or penetration. However, this approach …

Transducer array imaging system

JS Klessel, KS Randall, JA Urbano - US Patent 8,220,334, 2012 - Google Patents
The disclosed embodiments include a method, system, and device for conducting
ultrasound interrogation of a medium. The novel method includes transmitting a non …

A study of synthetic-aperture imaging with virtual source elements in B-mode ultrasound imaging systems

MH Bae, MK Jeong - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an all point transmit and receive focusing method based on transmit synthetic
focusing combined with receive dynamic focusing in a linear array transducer. In the …

Minimally redundant 2-D array designs for 3-D medical ultrasound imaging

M Karaman, IO Wygant, Ö Oralkan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In real-time ultrasonic 3-D imaging, in addition to difficulties in fabricating and
interconnecting 2-D transducer arrays with hundreds of elements, there are also challenges …

Autofocusing ultrasonic imagery for non-destructive testing and evaluation of specimens with complicated geometries

AJ Hunter, BW Drinkwater, PD Wilcox - Ndt & E International, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the autofocus problem for non-destructive testing and evaluation of
specimens with complicated geometries using ultrasonic arrays. We present an algorithm for …

Transducer array imaging system

KS Randall, JS Klessel, AP Lannutti, JA Urbano… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Digital enfo Decimation (RO) FIFo first electrical energy into an ultrasound wave. The first
elec trical energy may or may not be beam formed. The transducers also may convert an …

Transducer array imaging system

KS Randall, JS Klessel, AP Lannutti… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
The disclosed embodiments include a method, system, and device for conducting
ultrasound interrogation of a medium. The novel method includes transmitting a non …

Sequential beamforming for synthetic aperture imaging

J Kortbek, JA Jensen, KL Gammelmark - Ultrasonics, 2013 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture sequential beamforming (SASB) is a novel technique which allows to
implement synthetic aperture beamforming on a system with a restricted complexity, and …