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Wideband Optical Detector of Ultrasound for Medical Imaging Applications
Published on: May 11, 2014
Pulse elongation and deconvolution filtering for medical ultrasonic imaging
B Haider1, P A Lewin, K E Thomenius
1Department of Electrical and Computer, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. bhaide@atl.com).Engineering
Abstract:
Range sidelobe artifacts which are associated with pulse compression methods can be reduced with a new method composed of pulse elongation and deconvolution (PED). While pulse compression and PED yield similar signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvements, PED inherently minimizes the range sidelobe artifacts. The deconvolution is implemented as a stabilized inverse filter. With proper selection of the excitation waveform an exact inverse filter can be implemented. The excitation waveform is optimized in a minimum mean square error (MMSE) sense. An analytical expression for the power spectrum of the optimal pulse is presented and several techniques to numerically optimize the excitation pulse are shown. The effects of PED are demonstrated in computer simulations as well as ultrasonic images.
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