2018-06-12
Beamforming for 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography
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Bundelvorming voor 3D transoesofagale echocardiografie
In this thesis, we study beamforming techniques that offer opportunities for 3D transesophageal echocardiography imaging, especially to achieve higher frame rates. In 3D TEE with a matrix transducer, two main challenges are to connect a large number of elements to a standard ultrasound system and to achieve a high volume rate (>200 Hz). We develop a prototype miniaturized matrix transducer for pediatric patients with micro-beamforming to reduce the channel count. Initially, we propose two dual stage beamforming techniques for 1D arrays to produce high-quality images with reduced channel count: one using fixed focused receive and another with a simple summation in receive (no delays). Because of their inapplicability to the prototype transducer, we propose multiline 3D ultrasound beamforming schemes that utilize the micro-beamforming capabilities. The proposed beamforming schemes use an angle-weighted combination of the neighboring overlapping sub-volumes to suppress the crossover artifacts that are typical for parallel beamforming and produce high-quality images at a high volume rate (~300 Hz). A similar beamforming scheme adapted for a newly designed prototype matrix adult TEE probe is used for in vivo 3D imaging of the heart of a healthy adult pig to produce good quality 3D images at a high frame rate. The proposed 3D beamforming scheme can easily be adapted for matrix probes with micro-beamforming capabilities to produce good quality volume images at a high volume rate, even for a very different layout of the transmit and receive arrays.
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N. de Jong (Nico) , A.F.W. van der Steen (Ton) , J.G. Bosch (Hans) , H.J. Vos (Rik) | |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
hdl.handle.net/1765/105966 | |
Organisation | Department of Biomedical Engineering |
Bera, D. (2018, June 12). Beamforming for 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/105966 |