An economic photoacoustic imaging platform using automatic laser synchronization and inverse beamforming

Yixuan Wu; Haichong K. Zhang; Jeeun Kang; Emad M. Boctor

doi:10.1016/j.ultras.2020.106098

An economic photoacoustic imaging platform using automatic laser synchronization and inverse beamforming

Yixuan Wu, Haichong K. Zhang, Jeeun Kang, Emad M. Boctor

School of Medicine

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Abstract

We present a proof-of-concept of an automatic integration of photoacoustic (PA) imaging on clinical ultrasound (US) imaging platforms. Here we tackle two critical challenges: the laser synchronization and the inaccessibility to the beamformer core embedded in commercial US imaging platform. In particular, the line trigger frequency (LTF) estimation and the asynchronous synthetic aperture inverse beamforming (ASAIB) were developed and evaluated in both k-Wave simulation and phantom experiment. The proposed method is an economical solution to enable PA imaging on a greater number of US equipment to further thrive the PA imaging research community.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	106098
Journal	Ultrasonics
Volume	103
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2020.106098
State	Published - Apr 2020

Keywords

Asynchronous
Inverse beamforming
Photoacoustic imaging

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Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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