Ultrasound robotics for precision therapy

ADC Fonseca, D Ahmed - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the application of microrobots in precision therapy has gained significant
attention. The small size and maneuverability of these micromachines enable them to …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional ultrasound matrix imaging

F Bureau, J Robin, A Le Ber, W Lambert, M Fink… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Matrix imaging paves the way towards a next revolution in wave physics. Based on the
response matrix recorded between a set of sensors, it enables an optimized compensation …

Investigating pulse-echo sound speed estimation in breast ultrasound with deep learning

WA Simson, M Paschali, V Sideri-Lampretsa, N Navab… - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is an adjunct tool to mammography that can quickly and safely aid physicians in
diagnosing breast abnormalities. Clinical ultrasound often assumes a constant sound speed …

Differentiable beamforming for ultrasound autofocusing

W Simson, L Zhuang, SJ Sanabria, N Antil… - … Conference on Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Ultrasound images are distorted by phase aberration arising from local sound speed
variations in the tissue, which lead to inaccurate time delays in beamforming and loss of …

Review of deep learning approaches for interleaved photoacoustic and ultrasound (PAUS) imaging

MW Kim, I Pelivanov… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging provides optical contrast at relatively large depths within the
human body, compared to other optical methods, at ultrasound (US) spatial resolution. By …

Spatial ambiguity correction in coherence-based average sound speed estimation

R Ahmed, G Trahey - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sound speed estimation can potentially correct the focusing errors in medical ultrasound.
Maximizing the echo spatial coherence as a function of beamforming sound speed is a …

Generating and monitoring mild hyperthermia using a ring array ultrasound transducer

D Bustamante, Y Yan, T Mitcham, R Ali… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective To demonstrate the feasibility of using a ring array ultrasound (US) transducer,
guided by ultrasound tomography (UST), for generating and monitoring mild hyperthermia …

[HTML][HTML] Iterative Pulse–Echo Tomography for Ultrasonic Image Correction

Y Zengqiu, W Wu, L Xiao, E Zhou, Z Cao, J Hua… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Acoustic aberration, caused by the uneven distribution of tissue speed-of-sound (SoS),
significantly reduces the quality of ultrasound imaging. An important approach to mitigate …

Aberration correction by polynomial approximation for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

D Leonov, N Kulberg, T Yakovleva - Medical Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Previously, there has been some work in the field of optical imaging on phase
compensation by employing Legendre polynomials as an expansion of the phase function …

Ultrasound Autofocusing: Common Midpoint Phase Error Optimization via Differentiable Beamforming

W Simson, L Zhuang, BN Frey, SJ Sanabria… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Wavefield imaging reconstructs physical properties from wavefield measurements across an
aperture, using modalities like radar, optics, sonar, seismic, and ultrasound imaging …