通过优化相位误差实现超声自动聚焦,提升图像清晰度。
Ultrasound Autofocusing: Common Midpoint Phase Error Optimization via Differentiable Beamforming
- 用可微波束成形优化共中心点相位误差,实现自适应聚焦。
- 在模拟、体外和活体模型中均提升聚焦效果,准确估计介质速度场。
- 无需复杂波动方程模拟,仅靠测量数据即可实现分布式像差校正。
在超声成像中,声波穿过非均匀介质时会产生相位畸变,降低回波相干性,导致图像分辨率和对比度下降。自适应成像技术试图校正这种相位畸变以恢复相干性,从而改善图像聚焦。本文提出一种基于共中心点相位误差(CMPE)优化的超声自动聚焦方法,利用直线射线波传播模型进行波束成形,在散射介质中通过优化压力测量数据来拟合声速场。研究表明,由非均匀声速引起的CMPE是稳健的相位畸变度量,可用于声学自动聚焦。通过可微波束成形迭代优化CMPE,同时提升图像聚焦并估计介质声速场。该方法仅依赖波场测量,采用双程飞行时间的直线射线积分解,无需显式的时间步进波动模型。我们在仿真、体外仿体及活体哺乳动物模型中验证了该方法性能,展示了其在分布式像差量化、校正与速度估计方面的实际应用价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In ultrasound imaging, propagation of an acoustic wavefront through heterogeneous media causes phase aberrations that degrade the coherence of the reflected wavefront, leading to reduced image resolution and contrast. Adaptive imaging techniques attempt to correct this phase aberration and restore coherence, leading to improved focusing of the image. We propose an autofocusing paradigm for aberration correction in ultrasound imaging by fitting an acoustic velocity field to pressure measurements, via optimization of the common midpoint phase error (CMPE), using a straight-ray wave propagation model for beamforming in diffusely scattering media. We show that CMPE induced by heterogeneous acoustic velocity is a robust measure of phase aberration that can be used for acoustic autofocusing. CMPE is optimized iteratively using a differentiable beamforming approach to simultaneously improve the image focus while estimating the acoustic velocity field of the interrogated medium. The approach relies solely on wavefield measurements using a straight-ray integral solution of the two-way time-of-flight without explicit numerical time-stepping models of wave propagation. We demonstrate method performance through in silico simulations, in vitro phantom measurements, and in vivo mammalian models, showing practical applications in distributed aberration quantification, correction, and velocity estimation for medical ultrasound autofocusing.
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