PULSE-ECHO IMAGING USING A NONDIFFRACTING BEAM TRANSDUCER

被引:63
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作者
LU, JY
GREENLEAF, JF
机构
[1] Biodynamics Research Unit, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
来源
ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY | 1991年 / 17卷 / 03期
关键词
NONDIFFRACTING BEAM; NONDIFFRACTING TRANSDUCER; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; BESSEL BEAM; GAUSSIAN BEAM; PULSE-ECHO IMAGING; TISSUE SAMPLES; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM; CALIBRATION OF RECEIVER; DYNAMIC FOCUSING;
D O I
10.1016/0301-5629(91)90048-2
中图分类号
O42 [声学];
学科分类号
070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
Conventional ultrasonic transducers generate beams that diffract as they travel. This phenomenon causes images produced in B-mode to be degraded in the far-field of the transducers. Focused transducers are used to improve image quality. Unfortunately, focused transducers have short depth of field. Although multiple pulse transmissions focused at several depths are used to increase the effective depth of field, imaging frame rate is reduced dramatically leading to blurred images of moving objects such as the heart. We present a family of transducers that produce nondiffracting beams of large depth of field. Therefore, uniformly high resolution throughout the imaging area can be obtained without sacrificing the imaging frame rate. In addition, the nondiffracting property of these beams makes the correction for beam diffraction negligible in tissue characterization. This paper reports the results of computer simulations as well as in vitro and in vivo pulse-echo imaging experiments with a nondiffracting transducer. Images are compared to those obtained by conventional focused Gaussian shaded beam transducers and a commercial ACUSON 128 B-scanner. The new transducer has much longer depth of field with higher sidelobes than conventional transducers of the same aperture. Sidelobes can be reduced using the new transducer to transmit and the dynamically focused transducer to receive.
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页码:265 / 281
页数:17
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