Beamforming of plane-wave ultrasound echo signals in the Fourier domain provides fast and accurate image reconstruction. Conventional implementations perform a k-space interpolation from the uniform sampled grid to a nonuniform acoustic dispersion grid. In this paper, we demonstrate that this step can be replaced by a nonuniform Fourier transform. We study the performance of the nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) in terms of signal-to-noise ratio and computational cost, and show that the NUFFT offers an advantage in the trade-off between speed and accuracy, compared with other frequency-domain beamforming strategies.

doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2509, hdl.handle.net/1765/60176
I E E E Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Kruizinga, P., Mastik, F., de Jong, N., van der Steen, T., & van Soest, G. (2012). Plane-wave ultrasound beamforming using a nonuniform fast fourier transform. I E E E Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 59(12), 2684–2691. doi:10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2509