TY - CHAP
T1 - Coherent Multi-Transducer Ultrasound Imaging
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2020
AU - Peralta, Laura
AU - Zimmer, Veronika A.
AU - Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten
AU - Ramalli, Alessandro
AU - Skelton, Emily
AU - Matthew, Jacqueline
AU - Simpson, John
AU - V Hajnal, Joseph
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust/EPSRC iFIND project, IEH Award [102431] (www.iFINDproject.com), the Wellcome Trust/EPSRC funded Centre for Medical Engineering [WT 203148/Z/16/Z], and EPSRC-IAA Advancing Impact Award [EP/R511559/1]. The authors acknowledge financial support from the Department of Health via the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre award to Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London and Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/9/7
Y1 - 2020/9/7
N2 - Despite medical ultrasound being ubiquitous in clinical practice, its usefulness is limited by low resolution images with a restricted field of view and penetration depth. Those key limitations, which are especially prevalent when imaging deep in the body and are more pronounced in an increasingly obese population, reduce sensitivity of diagnostic ultrasound. Fundamentally, these limitations are constrained by the extent of the transmitting and receiving apertures. Recently, we have developed coherent multi-transducer ultrasound (CoMTUS), which allows the use of multiple ultrasound arrays as one large effective aperture, to overcome known limitations and improve the ultrasound imaging performance. In this study, CoMTUS feasibility for in vivo imaging is tested, for the first time, in a foetal phantom and in vivo in a healthy adult volunteer. Preliminary results show that, in comparison to a single-probe image and to the fused image obtained combining the two images independently acquired by both arrays, CoMTUS leads to improved images with an extended field of view and more detailed structures.
AB - Despite medical ultrasound being ubiquitous in clinical practice, its usefulness is limited by low resolution images with a restricted field of view and penetration depth. Those key limitations, which are especially prevalent when imaging deep in the body and are more pronounced in an increasingly obese population, reduce sensitivity of diagnostic ultrasound. Fundamentally, these limitations are constrained by the extent of the transmitting and receiving apertures. Recently, we have developed coherent multi-transducer ultrasound (CoMTUS), which allows the use of multiple ultrasound arrays as one large effective aperture, to overcome known limitations and improve the ultrasound imaging performance. In this study, CoMTUS feasibility for in vivo imaging is tested, for the first time, in a foetal phantom and in vivo in a healthy adult volunteer. Preliminary results show that, in comparison to a single-probe image and to the fused image obtained combining the two images independently acquired by both arrays, CoMTUS leads to improved images with an extended field of view and more detailed structures.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097867607&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IUS46767.2020.9251837
DO - 10.1109/IUS46767.2020.9251837
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85097867607
T3 - IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
BT - IUS 2020 - International Ultrasonics Symposium, Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 7 September 2020 through 11 September 2020
ER -