TY - GEN
T1 - Three-Dimensional Voxel-Level Classification of Ultrasound Scattering
AU - Tai, Haowei
AU - Dolui, Swapnil
AU - Khairalseed, Mawia
AU - Hoyt, Kenneth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - Three-dimensional (3D) H-scan ultrasound (US) is a new high-resolution imaging technology for voxel-level tissue classification. For the purpose of validation, a simulated H-scan US imaging system was developed to comprehensively study the sensitivity to scatterer size in volume space. A programmable research US system (Vantage 256, Verasonics Inc, Kirkland, WA) equipped with a custom volumetric imaging transducer (4DL7, Vermon, Tours, France) was used for US data acquisition and comparison to simulated findings. Preliminary studies were conducted using homogeneous phantoms embedded with acoustic scatterers of varying sizes (15, 30, 40 or 250 μm). Both simulation and experimental results indicate that the H -scan US imaging method is more sensitive than B-mode US in differentiating US scatterers of varying size. Overall, this study proved useful for evaluating H -scan US imaging of tissue scatterer patterns and will inform future technology research and development.
AB - Three-dimensional (3D) H-scan ultrasound (US) is a new high-resolution imaging technology for voxel-level tissue classification. For the purpose of validation, a simulated H-scan US imaging system was developed to comprehensively study the sensitivity to scatterer size in volume space. A programmable research US system (Vantage 256, Verasonics Inc, Kirkland, WA) equipped with a custom volumetric imaging transducer (4DL7, Vermon, Tours, France) was used for US data acquisition and comparison to simulated findings. Preliminary studies were conducted using homogeneous phantoms embedded with acoustic scatterers of varying sizes (15, 30, 40 or 250 μm). Both simulation and experimental results indicate that the H -scan US imaging method is more sensitive than B-mode US in differentiating US scatterers of varying size. Overall, this study proved useful for evaluating H -scan US imaging of tissue scatterer patterns and will inform future technology research and development.
KW - Acoustic scatterer size
KW - H-scan ultrasound
KW - tissue characterization
KW - ultrasound simulation
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U2 - 10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098672
DO - 10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098672
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085866548
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
SP - 1838
EP - 1841
BT - ISBI 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 17th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2020
Y2 - 3 April 2020 through 7 April 2020
ER -