Adaptive beamforming for photoacoustic imaging.
An adaptive photoacoustic image reconstruction technique that combines coherence factor (CF) weighting and the minimum variance (MV) method is introduced. The backprojection method is widely used to reconstruct photoacoustic tomography images. Owing to the scattering of light, the quality of the photoacoustic imaging can be degraded. CF, an adaptive weighting technique, is known to improve the lateral resolution of photoacoustic images. In addition, an MV adaptive beamforming method can further improve the image quality by suppressing signals from off-axis directions. Experimental studies are performed to quantify the spatial resolution and contrast of the adaptive photoacoustic beamforming methods.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Suhyun
S
Park
Andrei B
AB
Karpiouk
Salavat R
SR
Aglyamov
Stanislav Y
SY
Emelianov
D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D033401:Microscopy, Acoustic / Q000379:methods; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging