Modeling of wave propagation for medical ultrasound: a review

J Gu, Y Jing - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerical modeling of medical ultrasound has advanced tremendously in the past two
decades. This opens up a great number of opportunities for medical ultrasound and …

Sources of image degradation in fundamental and harmonic ultrasound imaging using nonlinear, full-wave simulations

GF Pinton, GE Trahey, JJ Dahl - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A full-wave equation that describes nonlinear propagation in a heterogeneous attenuating
medium is solved numerically with finite differences in the time domain (FDTD). This …

A heterogeneous nonlinear attenuating full-wave model of ultrasound

GF Pinton, J Dahl, S Rosenzweig… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A full-wave equation that describes nonlinear propagation in a heterogeneous attenuating
medium is solved numerically with finite differences in the time domain (FDTD). Three …

An iterative method for the computation of nonlinear, wide-angle, pulsed acoustic fields of medical diagnostic transducers

J Huijssen, MD Verweij - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The development and optimization of medical ultrasound transducers and imaging
modalities require a computational method that accurately predicts the nonlinear acoustic …

Modeling the propagation of nonlinear three-dimensional acoustic beams in inhomogeneous media

Y Jing, RO Cleveland - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
A three-dimensional model of the forward propagation of nonlinear sound beams in
inhomogeneous media, a generalized Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznetsov equation, is …

Improvement of shear wave motion detection using harmonic imaging in healthy human liver

C Amador, P Song, DD Meixner, S Chen… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Quantification of liver elasticity is a major application of shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI)
to non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis stages. SWEI measurements can be highly …

Transmit beams adapted to reverberation noise suppression using dual-frequency SURF imaging

SP Nasholm, R Hansen, SE Masoy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method that uses dual-frequency pulse complexes of widely separated frequency bands to
suppress noise caused by multiple scattering or multiple reflections in medical ultrasound …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-physics computational modeling of focused ultrasound therapies

A Kyriakou - 2015 - research-collection.ethz.ch
The possibility to apply ultrasonic waves, ie, high-frequency acoustic waves, for therapeutic
purposes was recognized over 60 years ago. Chapter 1 of this dissertation establishes the …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical models for the error induced in piezoelectric ceramic transducer-based acoustic ranging instrumentation and measurement

Y George, A Sarkar, A Javed - e-Prime-Advances in Electrical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article presents experimental methods and analytics for developing statistical models
for ultrasonic sensors to improve reliability, repeatability, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in …

Viscoelasticity determined by measured wave absorption coefficient for modeling waves in soft tissues

L Yang, YY Chen, STJ Yu - Wave Motion, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper reports the construction of viscoelasticity models for simulation of wave
propagation in soft tissues. Aided by the Carson transform, Fung's model and Iatridis's model …