Ultrasound waveform tomography with wave-energy-based preconditioning

Huang, Lianjie; Zhang, Zhigang

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Title: Ultrasound waveform tomography with wave-energy-based preconditioning

Abstract

Synthetic-aperture ultrasound tomography systems and methods using scanning arrays and algorithms configured to simultaneously acquire ultrasound transmission and reflection data, and process the data using ultrasound waveform tomography with a wave-energy-based preconditioning method for improved ultrasound tomography imaging.

Inventors:: Huang, Lianjie; Zhang, Zhigang

Issue Date:: 2019-03-19

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

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1568066

Patent Number(s):: 10231707

Application Number:: 14/339,759

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

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61B - DIAGNOSIS

G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING

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A - HUMAN NECESSITIES A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE A61B - DIAGNOSIS
A61B5/0073 - {by tomography, i.e. reconstruction of 3D images from 2D projections
A61B5/7275 - {Determining trends in physiological measurement data}
A61B8/0825 - {for diagnosis of the breast, e.g. mammography}
A61B8/085 - {for locating body or organic structures, e.g. tumours, calculi, blood vessels, nodules}
A61B8/13 - Tomography
A61B8/14 - Echo-tomography
A61B8/145 - {characterised by scanning multiple planes}
A61B8/15 - Transmission-tomography
A61B8/406 - {using means for diagnosing suspended breasts}
A61B8/4477 - {using several separate ultrasound transducers or probes}
A61B8/4488 - {the transducer being a phased array}
A61B8/4494 - {characterised by the arrangement of the transducer elements
A61B8/483 - {involving the acquisition of a 3D volume of data}
A61B8/5207 - {involving processing of raw data to produce diagnostic data, e.g. for generating an image

G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING
G01S15/8915 - {using a transducer array}
G01S15/8929 - {using a three-dimensional transducer configuration}
G01S15/8997 - {using synthetic aperture techniques}

G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
G06T11/005 - {Specific pre-processing for tomographic reconstruction, e.g. calibration, source positioning, rebinning, scatter correction, retrospective gating}
G06T5/001 - {Image restoration}

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DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; MIPR0LDATM0144

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 07/24/2014

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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Ultrasonic fan beam scanner for computerized time-of-flight tomography patent, February 1978

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Apparatus and method for imaging objects with wavefields patent-application, February 2004

Focused ultrasound system for surrounding a body tissue mass patent-application, March 2006

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System and method for ultrasonic tomography
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Ultrasonic tomograph
patent-application, August 2003

Apparatus and method for imaging objects with wavefields
patent-application, February 2004

Focused ultrasound system for surrounding a body tissue mass
patent-application, March 2006

Volumetric ultrasound scanning of smaller-sized breast
patent-application, August 2006

Displacement measurement method and apparatus, strain measurement method and apparatus, elasticity and visco-elasticity constants measurement apparatus, and the elasticity and visco-elasticity constants measurement apparatus-based treatment apparatus
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patent-application, December 2006

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