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MEDICAL PHYSICS
卷 40, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC PHYSICISTS MEDICINE AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1118/1.4823762
关键词
transcranial ultrasound; passive beamforming; ultrasound super-resolution
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01-EB009032, R01-EB003268]
- Canada Research Chair Program
Purpose: High-resolution vascular imaging has not been achieved in the brain due to limitations of current clinical imaging modalities. The authors present a method for transcranial ultrasound imaging of single micrometer-size bubbles within a tube phantom. Methods: Emissions from single bubbles within a tube phantom were mapped through an ex vivo human skull using a sparse hemispherical receiver array and a passive beamforming algorithm. Noninvasive phase and amplitude correction techniques were applied to compensate for the aberrating effects of the skull bone. The positions of the individual bubbles were estimated beyond the diffraction limit of ultrasound to produce a super-resolution image of the tube phantom, which was compared with microcomputed tomography (micro-CT). Results: The resulting super-resolution ultrasound image is comparable to results obtained via the micro-CT for small tissue specimen imaging. Conclusions: This method provides superior resolution to deep-tissue contrast ultrasound and has the potential to be extended to provide complete vascular network imaging in the brain. (C) 2013 American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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