Carotid lesion characterization by synthetic aperture imaging techniques with multi-offset ultrasonic probes

Lorenzo Capineri; Guido Castellini; Leonardo F. Masotti; Santina Rocchi

doi:10.1117/12.59536

26 June 1992 Carotid lesion characterization by synthetic-aperture-imaging techniques with multioffset ultrasonic probes

Lorenzo Capineri, Guido Castellini, Leonardo F. Masotti, Santina Rocchi

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Proceedings Volume 1660, Biomedical Image Processing and Three-Dimensional Microscopy; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59536
Event: SPIE/IS&T 1992 Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1992, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper explores the applications of a high-resolution imaging technique to vascular ultrasound diagnosis, with emphasis on investigation of the carotid vessel. With the present diagnostic systems, it is difficult to measure quantitatively the extension of the lesions and to characterize the tissue; quantitative images require enough spatial resolution and dynamic to reveal fine high-risk pathologies. A broadband synthetic aperture technique with multi-offset probes is developed to improve the lesion characterization by the evaluation of local scattering parameters. This technique works with weak scatterers embedded in a constant velocity medium, large aperture, and isotropic sources and receivers. The features of this technique are: axial and lateral spatial resolution of the order of the wavelength, high dynamic range, quantitative measurements of the size and scattering intensity of the inhomogeneities, and capabilities of investigation of inclined layer. The evaluation of the performances in real condition is carried out by a software simulator in which different experimental situations can be reproduced. Images of simulated anatomic test-objects are presented. The images are obtained with an inversion process of the synthesized ultrasonic signals, collected on the linear aperture by a limited number of finite size transducers.

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Lorenzo Capineri, Guido Castellini, Leonardo F. Masotti, and Santina Rocchi "Carotid lesion characterization by synthetic-aperture-imaging techniques with multioffset ultrasonic probes", Proc. SPIE 1660, Biomedical Image Processing and Three-Dimensional Microscopy, (26 June 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59536

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