Systems and methods for increasing efficiency of ultrasound waveform tomography

Title: Systems and methods for increasing efficiency of ultrasound waveform tomography

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Ultrasound tomography imaging methods for imaging a tissue medium with one or more ultrasound transducer arrays comprising a plurality of transducers, wherein said transducers comprise source transducers, receiving transducers. The methods include assigning a phase value or time delay to source transducers, exciting the transducers and calculating a search direction based on data relating to the excited transducers.

Inventors:: Huang, Lianjie; Zhang, Zhigang

Issue Date:: 2018-07-31

OSTI Identifier:: 1464778

Assignee:: Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM) LANL

Patent Number(s):: 10,034,656

Application Number:: 14/339,770

Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2014 Jul 24

Research Org:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

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