TY - GEN
T1 - Improved contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging with multiplane wave imaging
AU - Gong, Ping
AU - Song, Pengfei
AU - Chen, Shigao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/10/31
Y1 - 2017/10/31
N2 - Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging offers great opportunities for new ultrasound applications by improving the contrast between blood and tissue using microbubbles. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to the low mechanical index (MI) requirement can be an issue in practice. Multiplane wave (MW) imaging is a technique recently proposed to increase the SNR for compounding plane wave imaging. In this study, we propose to combine CEUS with MW imaging to improve SNR without elevating MI in plane-wave-based CEUS imaging.
AB - Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging offers great opportunities for new ultrasound applications by improving the contrast between blood and tissue using microbubbles. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to the low mechanical index (MI) requirement can be an issue in practice. Multiplane wave (MW) imaging is a technique recently proposed to increase the SNR for compounding plane wave imaging. In this study, we propose to combine CEUS with MW imaging to improve SNR without elevating MI in plane-wave-based CEUS imaging.
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U2 - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2017.8092592
DO - 10.1109/ULTSYM.2017.8092592
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85039420503
T3 - IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
BT - 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2017
Y2 - 6 September 2017 through 9 September 2017
ER -