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HYDROACOUSTICS
ANNUAL JOURNAL |
START | NEW VOL 20 | SEARCH | STATISTICS | PAS - GDANSK DIVISION |
pp. 151-160, vol. 17, 2014 Andrzej Nowicki Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Michał Byra Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Jerzy Litniewski Ultrasound Department, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Janusz Wójcik Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Key words: characterization of tissue Abstract: Nowadays there are new modalities in ultrasound imaging allowing better
characterization of tissue regions with different stiffness. We are proposing a novel approach
based on compression and rarefaction of tissue simultaneously with imaging. The
propagating wave is a combination of two pulses. A low frequency pulse is expected to
change the local scattering properties of the tissue due to compression/rarefaction while a
high frequency pulse is used for imaging. Two transmissions are performed for each scanning
line. First, with the imaging pulse that propagates on maximum compression caused by a low
frequency wave. Next, the low frequency wave is inverted and the imaging pulse propagates
over the maximum rarefaction. After the processing of the subtracted echoes from subsequent
transmissions including wavelet transform and band-pass filtering, differential images were
reconstructed. The low frequency wave has a visible impact on the scattering properties of the
tissue which can be observed on a differential image.
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