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¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK. p.huthwaite@imperial.ac.uk

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Area of Science:

Medical imaging
Nondestructive evaluation
Applied physics

Background:

Reconstructing sound-speed maps from limited ultrasonic sensor data is difficult.
Limited viewing angles create ill-posed inverse problems, leading to image artifacts and inaccurate sound-speed values.
Existing methods struggle with missing angular information, degrading image quality.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel regularization technique to address the limited-view problem in ultrasound-based sound-speed mapping.
To improve the accuracy and reduce artifacts in reconstructed sound-speed maps.
To enhance the sensitivity of ultrasound imaging for detecting subtle material variations.

Main Methods:

Development of the virtual image space component iterative technique (VISCIT).
VISCIT employs an adaptive thresholding regularization strategy to iteratively compensate for missing angular data.
The method was tested using complex numerical and experimental agar phantoms.

Main Results:

VISCIT successfully generated high-accuracy sound-speed maps from limited-view ultrasound data.
The technique effectively mitigated artifacts caused by missing angular information.
Demonstrated detection of sound-speed contrasts as low as 1.3%.

Conclusions:

VISCIT offers a significant advancement in reconstructing accurate sound-speed maps from limited-view ultrasound data.
The method's ability to detect subtle contrasts paves the way for earlier diagnosis of diseases and material defects.
This technique holds promise for more sensitive and selective medical diagnostics and nondestructive evaluation.