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1Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan. zhu-jing@ed.tmu.ac.jp.
Abstract:
We are studying a method based on the carrier frequency sweep for axial high resolution ultrasonic imaging to provide the range resolution that corresponds to the carrier wavelength. The first proposal for this type of method was based on the focused pulse transmission. Then, to improve the frame rate, the method was extended to a synthetic aperture-type method that transmits divergent pulses. While the method is effective in terms of the frame rate, degradation of the enhanced axial resolution performance is a concern. Therefore, using finite element method simulations and simple experiments, the performance of the synthetic aperture method with high axial resolution is evaluated via comparison with the original method using focused pulses. The evaluation confirmed that the performance degradation of the synthetic aperture method is caused by weakness in the transmitted wave intensity and deterioration of the phase coherence in the reception beamforming. Based on this result, we propose a method that is less affected by the latter cause and show its effectiveness.
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