Optimized 2D array design for Ultrasound imaging

Bakary Diarra, Hervé Liebgott, Marc Robini, Piero Tortoli, Christian Cachard

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Abstract

Ultrasound imaging is one of the least expensive and safest diagnostic modalities routinely used. An attractive recent development in this field is three-dimensional (3D) imaging with two-dimensional (2D) matrix probes. The difficulty in implementing these probes comes from their large number of elements; for instance, the probe considered in this paper is composed of 1024 elements, whereas the number of channels of most current beamformers ranges from 64 to 256. To reduce the number of active elements, we propose a new sparse array design technique based on simulated annealing. Our method is capable of significantly reducing the number of probe elements as well as the side lobe level in a reasonable amount of computing time. Experiments in the context of hepatic biopsy show that good imaging performance can be obtained with only 177 active elements out of the total of 1024.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2012
Pages2718-2722
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2012 - Bucharest, Romania
Duration: Aug 27 2012Aug 31 2012

Publication series

NameEuropean Signal Processing Conference
ISSN (Print)2219-5491

Conference

Conference20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2012
Country/TerritoryRomania
CityBucharest
Period8/27/128/31/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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