Systems and methods for increasing efficiency of ultrasound waveform tomography
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.
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- 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:
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