Fourier Domain Depth Migration for Plane-Wave Ultrasound Imaging

作者：Albulayli Mohammed; Rakhmatov Daler^*

来源：IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2018, 65(8): 1321-1333.

DOI：10.1109/TUFFC.2018.2837000

• Dispersion relation
• exploding reflector model (ERM)
• Fourier transformation
• scalar wave equation
• slant-stack migration (SSM)
• Stolt's migration

Plane-wave (PW) ultrasound imaging allows for ultrafast image acquisition rates, thus enabling new biomedical applications, such as ultrasound-based blood flow and tissue motion characterization. We propose two novel Fourier domain techniques for PW ultrasound image reconstruction that can be used as an alternative to conventional delay-and-sum beamforming. In particular, we show how to modify two classic algorithms used for geophysical data processing (namely, Stolt's and slant-stack depth migration under zero-offset constantvelocity assumptions), so that their new versions can he used for PW ultrasound data processing. To demonstrate the merits and limitations of our approach, we provide qualitative and quantitative comparisons with other Fourier domain methods reported in the ultrasound literature. Our evaluation results are based on the image resolution, contrast, and similarity metrics obtained for several public-domain experimental benchmark data sets.

• 出版日期2018-8