自动校正颅骨畸变,让超声成像更准更清晰
Automatic Aberration Correction for Transcranial Functional and Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging in Rodents and Nonhuman Primates

- 用可微波束形成法自动优化颅骨引起的畸变
- 在小鼠和非人灵长类动物中实现超分辨率成像
- 适合神经科学、生物医学成像研究者使用
颅骨引起的畸变仍是经颅超声定位显微镜(ULM)的主要瓶颈,导致微泡定位不准、误检及成像伪影(如血管断裂或重复)。本文提出一种可微波束形成框架,用于经颅多普勒和ULM的自动畸变校正。该方法基于空间分布延迟参数化畸变,并以角相干性为目标函数进行闭环优化。我们在活体小鼠和非人灵长类(NHP)脑部验证了该方法对经颅ULM的显著改进,提升了空间分辨率。进一步将该方法拓展至功能测量,增强了经颅功能性超声(fUS)与基于血流动力学定量的ULM灵敏度。在NHP三维经颅ULM成像中,有效校正颅骨畸变并消除血管重复等伪影。本工作提供了一种全自动、通用的畸变校正方案,降低了经颅超声成像的技术门槛,推动非侵入性、超分辨率及功能神经成像在不同实验室与物种间的广泛应用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Skull-induced aberrations remain a major drawback of transcranial ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), degrading sensitivity and spatial accuracy through microbubble mislocalization, false detections, and imaging artifacts, such as disconnected or duplicated vessels. Here, we present a differentiable beamforming framework for automatic aberration correction in transcranial Doppler and ULM. Our approach uses spatially distributed delay-based parameterization of the aberration that is optimized in a closed-loop manner using angular coherence as an objective function. We demonstrate robust improvements of transcranial ULM, in vivo, with enhanced resolution of both mouse and nonhuman primate (NHP) brains. We also extended differentiable beamforming to functional measurements, with improvements in the sensitivity of transcranial functional ultrasound (fUS) and ULM based hemodynamic quantification. Extending this approach to 3D transcranial ULM imaging in NHPs, we show efficient correction of skull induced aberrations and removal of artifacts, such as vessel duplications. By providing a fully automated and generalizable solution for aberration correction, this work lowers a major technical barrier to transcranial ultrasound imaging, enabling broader adoption of non-invasive, super-resolution and functional neuroimaging across laboratories and across species.
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