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  • Medical Imaging
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing

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  • Linear-array photoacoustic imaging (PAI) utilizes beamforming for image reconstruction.
  • The conventional Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer, while simple, suffers from high sidelobes and low resolution.
  • Existing methods struggle to optimize image quality and noise reduction in PAI.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel Sparse beamforming (SB) method for improved photoacoustic image reconstruction.
  • To address the limitations of traditional beamforming techniques, such as DAS, in PAI.
  • To enhance image quality, resolution, and noise robustness in linear-array PAI.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a regularized inverse problem approach for photoacoustic image formation.
  • Incorporated a sparse constraint into the beamforming model to enforce sparsity in the output data.
  • Defined and solved both forward and backward problems within the beamforming framework.

Main Results:

  • The proposed Sparse beamforming (SB) method demonstrated significant improvements in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) compared to DAS, DMAS, and DS-DMAS.
  • Numerical simulations showed average SNR improvements of up to 98.69 dB over DAS.
  • Experimental results confirmed substantial noise reduction and improved contrast ratio, with up to 103.97 dB enhancement over DAS for a wire phantom.

Conclusions:

  • Sparse beamforming (SB) offers a robust and effective solution for enhancing photoacoustic image quality.
  • The SB method significantly outperforms traditional beamforming techniques in terms of SNR and noise reduction.
  • This approach holds promise for advancing diagnostic capabilities in photoacoustic imaging.