Analysis of the influence of multiple scattering on the reconstruction of ultrasound tomography signals using Synthetic Aperture Focussing Technique

Author

Hardt, M. ; Ruiter, N.V. ; Gemmeke, H.

Author_Institution

Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 April 2012

Firstpage

564

Lastpage

567

Abstract

At KIT we are developing a 3D Ultrasound Computer Tomograph (USCT) for breast cancer detection. Our current reconstruction algorithm, Synthetic Aperture Focussing Technique (SAFT) assumes single scattering for the reconstruction of 3D images from the measured data. Higher order reflections cause artefacts in the reconstruction.

Keywords

acoustic tomography; biological organs; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; computerised tomography; gynaecology; image reconstruction; medical image processing; ultrasonic focusing; ultrasonic imaging; ultrasonic reflection; ultrasonic scattering; 3D image reconstruction; 3D ultrasound computer tomography; SAFT; USCT; breast cancer detection; higher order reflections; multiple scattering; reconstruction algorithms; single scattering; synthetic aperture focussing technique; ultrasound tomography signal reconstruction; ultrasound wave pulses; Computational modeling; Gratings; Image reconstruction; Scattering; Three dimensional displays; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Forward Solution; KIT; USCT; Ultrasound Computer Tomography; Wave Equation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2012 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

2157-8672

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2191-5

Type

conf

Filename

6208204