Tapering of the interventricular septum can affect ultrasound shear wave elastography: An in vitro and in silico study

Shear wave elastography (SWE) has the potential to determine cardiac tissue stiffness from non-invasive shear wave speed measurements, important, e.g., for predicting heart failure. Previous studies showed that waves traveling in the interventricular septum (IVS) may display Lamb-like dispersive behaviour, introducing a thickness-frequency...

Iterative trace reconstruction of aliased RF data obtained using harmonic imaging: A feasibility study

Stolt migration based iterative trace reconstruction

Proper spatial sampling is critical for high quality imaging. If the sampling criterion is not met, grating lobe artifacts appear in the image. In non-destructive testing applications efficiency is being increased by the steady enlargement of the field of view, resulting in more elements and thus a higher transducer complexity and cost. In the...

F-k domain imaging for synthetic aperture sequential beamforming

3D post-processing of pre-beamformed RF data in the frequency-wavenumber domain

Three-dimensional (3D) high resolution beamforming is made more difficult by high data rates. This can be overcome by two-step imaging approaches such as the synthetic aperture beamforming technique. In this technique the first step significantly reduces the data rate by line-based delay and sum, whereas the second stage recombines the data to a...

Ultrasonic multi-skip tomography for pipe inspection

The inspection of wall loss corrosion is difficult at pipe support locations due to limited accessibility. However, the recently developed ultrasonic Multi-Skip screening technique is suitable for this problem. The method employs ultrasonic transducers in a pitch-catch geometry positioned on opposite sides of the pipe support. Shear waves are...

Ultrasonic Multi-Skip Tomography for Pipe Inspection

The inspection of wall loss corrosion is difficult at pipe support locations due to limited accessibility. However, the recently developed ultrasonic Multi-Skip screening technique is suitable for this problem. The method employs ultrasonic transducers in a pitch-catch geometry positioned on opposite sides of the pipe support. Shear waves are...

Reflector-based phase calibration of ultrasound transducers

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Parametric array technique for microbubble excitation

This study investigates the use of an acoustic parametric array as a means for microbubble excitation. The excitation wave is generated during propagation in a nonlinear medium of two high-frequency carrier waves, whereby the frequency of the excitation wave is the difference frequency of the carrier waves. Carrier waves of around 10 and 25 MHz...