Title
Lamb Waves and Adaptive Beamforming for Aberration Correction in Medical Ultrasound Imaging
Author
Mozaffarzadeh, M. (TU Delft ImPhys/Medical Imaging) 
Minonzio, C.G. (TU Delft ImPhys/Medical Imaging)
de Jong, N. (TU Delft ImPhys/Medical Imaging; Erasmus MC)
Verweij, M.D. (TU Delft ImPhys/Medical Imaging; Erasmus MC)
Hemm, Simone (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)
Daeichin, V. (TU Delft ImPhys/Medical Imaging)
Date
2020
Abstract
Phase aberration in transcranial ultrasound imaging (TUI) caused by the human skull leads to an inaccurate image reconstruction. In this article, we present a novel method for estimating the speed of sound and an adaptive beamforming technique for phase aberration correction in a flat polyvinylchloride (PVC) slab as a model for the human skull. First, the speed of sound of the PVC slab is found by extracting the overlapping quasi-longitudinal wave velocities of symmetrical Lamb waves in the frequency-wavenumber domain. Then, the thickness of the plate is determined by the echoes from its front and back side. Next, an adaptive beamforming method is developed, utilizing the measured sound speed map of the imaging medium. Finally, to minimize reverberation artifacts caused by strong scatterers (i.e., needles), a dual probe setup is proposed. In this setup, we image the medium from two opposite directions, and the final image can be the minimum intensity projection of the inherently co-registered images of the opposed probes. Our results confirm that the Lamb wave method estimates the longitudinal speed of the slab with an error of 3.5% and is independent of its shear wave speed. Benefiting from the acquired sound speed map, our adaptive beamformer reduces (in real time) a mislocation error of 3.1, caused by an 8 mm slab, to 0.1 mm. Finally, the dual probe configuration shows 7 dB improvement in removing reverberation artifacts of the needle, at the cost of only 2.4-dB contrast loss. The proposed image formation method can be used, e.g., to monitor deep brain stimulation procedures and localization of the electrode(s) deep inside the brain from two temporal bones on the sides of the human skull.
Subject
Transcranial ultrasound imaging
Lamb waves
adaptive beamforming
sound speed map
deep brain stimulation
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2020.3007345
Embargo date
2021-01-06
ISSN
0885-3010
Source
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 68 (1), 84-91
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2020 M. Mozaffarzadeh, C.G. Minonzio, N. de Jong, M.D. Verweij, Simone Hemm, V. Daeichin