Random field interferometry for medical ultrasound

Ines Elisa Ulrich; Christian Boehm; Andreas Fichtner

doi:10.1117/12.2559852

16 March 2020 Random field interferometry for medical ultrasound

Ines Elisa Ulrich, Christian Boehm, Andreas Fichtner

Proceedings Volume 11319, Medical Imaging 2020: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 1131912 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2559852
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

We present a novel approach to obtain time-of-flight measurements between transducer pairs in an Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) scanner by applying the interferometry principle, which has been used success- fully in seismic imaging to recover the subsurface velocity structure from ambient noise recordings. To apply this approach to a USCT aperture, random wavefields are generated by activating the emitting transducers in a random sequence. By correlating the random signals recorded by the receiving transducers, we obtain an approximation of the Green’s functions between all receiver pairs, where one is acting as a virtual source. This eliminates specific source imprints, and thus avoids the need for reference measurements and calibration. The retrieved Green’s functions between any two measurement locations can then be used as new data to invert the sound speed map. On the basis of the cross-correlation travel times a ray-based time-of-flight tomography is developed and solved with an iterative least-squares method. As a proof of concept, the algorithm is tested on numerical breast phantoms in a synthetic 2D study.

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Ines Elisa Ulrich, Christian Boehm, and Andreas Fichtner "Random field interferometry for medical ultrasound", Proc. SPIE 11319, Medical Imaging 2020: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 1131912 (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2559852

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