Design, implementation, and medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays

A Ramalli, E Boni, E Roux, H Liebgott… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultrasound sparse array consists of a sparse distribution of elements over a 2-D aperture.
Such an array is typically characterized by a limited number of elements, which in most …

Anatomic and functional imaging using row–column arrays

JA Jensen, M Schou, LT Jørgensen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Row–column (RC) arrays have the potential to yield full 3-D ultrasound imaging with a
greatly reduced number of elements compared to fully populated arrays. They, however …

3-D imaging using row-column-addressed arrays with integrated apodization-part i: apodization design and line element beamforming

MF Rasmussen, TL Christiansen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the effect of transducerintegrated apodization in row–column-
addressed arrays and presents a beamforming approach specific for such arrays. Row …

3-D imaging using row–column-addressed arrays with integrated apodization—Part II: Transducer fabrication and experimental results

TL Christiansen, MF Rasmussen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates the fabrication, characterization, and experimental imaging results
of a 62+ 62 element λ/2-pitch row-column-addressed capacitive micromachined ultrasonic …

Sparse convolutional beamforming for ultrasound imaging

R Cohen, YC Eldar - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The standard technique used by commercial medical ultrasound systems to form B-mode
images is delay and sum (DAS) beamforming. However, DAS often results in limited image …

2-D ultrasound sparse arrays multidepth radiation optimization using simulated annealing and spiral-array inspired energy functions

E Roux, A Ramalli, P Tortoli, C Cachard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Full matrix arrays are excellent tools for 3-D ultrasound imaging, but the required number of
active elements is too high to be individually controlled by an equal number of scanner …

A column-row-parallel ASIC architecture for 3-D portable medical ultrasonic imaging

K Chen, HS Lee, CG Sodini - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a scalable column-row-parallel ASIC architecture for 3-D portable
medical ultrasound. Through its programmable row-by-row or column-by-column operations …

Fast 3D super-resolution ultrasound with adaptive weight-based beamforming

J Yan, B Wang, K Riemer… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Super-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking
sparse microbubbles has been shown to reveal microvascular structure and flow beyond the …

Imaging performance for two row–column arrays

H Bouzari, M Engholm, SI Nikolov… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study evaluates the volumetric imaging performance of two prototyped 62+ 62 row-
column-addressed (RCA) 2-D array transducer probes using three synthetic aperture …

Large-scale and high-density pMUT array based on isolated sol-gel PZT membranes for fingerprint imaging

YQ Chen, YX Li, Y Chen, ZY Ju, LQ Tao… - Journal of The …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we proposed a novel ultrasonic transducer array based on an array of 50× 50
piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs). The structure was specially …