Multiple Measurement Vector Model for Sparsity-Based Vascular Ultrasound Imaging

Ultrasound imaging of the vasculature has major significance for the detection of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. However, limited spatial resolution or long acquisition times of existing techniques limit the visualization of the microvascular structures. Enforcing sparsity in the underlying vasculature as well as exploiting statistical...

Coding Mask Design for Single Sensor Ultrasound Imaging

We study the design of a coding mask for pulse-echo ultrasound imaging. We are interested in the scenario of a single receiving transducer with an aberrating layer, or ‘mask,’ in front of the transducer's receive surface, with a separate co-located transmit transducer. The mask encodes spatial measurements into a single output signal, containing...

Efficient and Flexible Spatiotemporal Clutter Filtering of High Frame Rate Images Using Subspace Tracking

Current methods to measure blood flow using ultrafast Doppler imaging often make use of a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The SVD has been shown to be an effective way to remove clutter signals associated with slow moving tissue. Conventionally, the SVD is calculated from an ensemble of frames, after which the first dominant eigenvectors...