التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Development of Methods for Retrospective Ultrasound Transmit Focusing |
| المؤلفون: |
Warriner, Renee |
| المساهمون: |
Cobbold, Richard |
| سنة النشر: |
2012 |
| المجموعة: |
Theses Canada / Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ultrasound, retrospective transmit focusing, wave propagation, attenuation, dispersion, apodized, focused, circular plane piston transducer |
| الوقت: |
0544, 0541 |
| الوصف: |
Single frame ultrasound B-mode image quality is largely governed by the ability to focus the ultrasound beam over a range in depths both in transmission and reception. By developing a comprehensive understanding of acoustic wave propagation two signal processing methods were identified for solving the transmission problem. We made use of both the impulse response using the classical point spread function (PSF) and the spatial sensitivity function (SSF) which describes the spatial distribution at a particular time. Using the angular spectrum method, an accurate analytical model was developed for the field distribution arising from a finite geometry, apodized and focused, plane piston transducer. While there is a thorough understanding of the radiated field arising from uniformly excited plane piston transducers, the focused equivalent (i.e., one that allows a continuous change in phase over the plane piston surface) is incomplete and assumes the Fresnel approximation. Our model addresses the effects of diffraction and evanescent waves without the use of the Fresnel approximation and is applicable at all near- and far-field locations in a lossless medium. The model was analyzed to identify new insights into wave propagation and compared with the Fresnel approximation and the spherically-focused, concave transducer. The piston transducer model was then extended to an attenuating and dispersive medium. After analysing existing models of power-law frequency dependent attenuation, a causal, spherical wave Green’s function was derived from the Navier-Stokes equation for a classical viscous medium. Modifications to the angular spectrum method were presented and used to analyze the radiated field of a focused, planar piston transducer. Finally, after presenting our signal processing strategy for improving imaging spatial resolution through minimization of the SSF, two signal processing methods were derived and analysed in simulation: a deconvolution technique to remove the effects of the ultrasound excitation wave and ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
thesis |
| اللغة: |
English |
| العلاقة: |
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34958Test |
| الإتاحة: |
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34958Test |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.D0400572 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
