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    • Ultrasound imaging
    • Array signal processing
    • Medical imaging systems

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    • Planar array design in 3-D ultrasound involves a trade-off between image quality and system complexity.
    • Current imaging metrics like mainlobe width (MW), mainlobe-to-sidelobe energy ratio (MSR), peak sidelobe level (PSL), and average sidelobe level (ASL) have limitations in fully evaluating planar array performance.
    • Existing metrics primarily assess lateral and contrast resolution but do not comprehensively capture planar array characteristics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose novel imaging metrics for planar array design that more accurately evaluate 3-D ultrasound image quality.
    • To introduce metrics that account for the mainlobe area's influence on performance.
    • To provide a more comprehensive evaluation of lateral and contrast resolution for planar arrays.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of new imaging metrics: averaged mainlobe acoustic energy level and mainlobe energy density curve for lateral resolution.
    • Introduction of mainlobe-to-sidelobe energy density ratio for contrast resolution.
    • Utilized point spread function (PSF) analysis and simulated ultrasound images to validate the proposed metrics.
    • Tested uniform planar arrays and random sparse arrays to demonstrate the application of new metrics in array design.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed metrics, considering the mainlobe area, offer a more accurate evaluation of planar array performance compared to existing metrics.
    • New lateral resolution metrics (averaged mainlobe acoustic energy level, mainlobe energy density curve) and contrast resolution metric (mainlobe-to-sidelobe energy density ratio) were introduced.
    • Simulations and PSF analysis confirmed the enhanced accuracy of the new metrics.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel imaging metrics provide a more precise assessment of planar array performance in 3-D ultrasound.
    • These metrics enable better optimization of planar array design for improved image quality.
    • The study demonstrates the practical application of these metrics in designing both uniform and sparse planar arrays.