Quantitative blood velocity measurements, as currently implemented in commercial ultrasound scanners, are based on Pulsed Wave spectral Doppler (PW) and are limited to detect the axial component of the velocity in a single sample volume. On the other hand, vector Doppler methods produce angle-independent estimates by, e.g. combining the frequency shifts measured from different directions. Moreover, thanks to the transmission of plane waves, the investigation of a 2D region is possible with high temporal resolution but, unfortunately, the clinical use of these methods is hampered by the massive calculation power required for their real-time execution. In this work, we present a novel approach based on the transmission of plane waves and the simultaneous reception of echoes from 16 distinct sub-apertures of a linear array probe, which produces 8 lines distributed over a 2D region. The method was implemented on the ULAO-OP 256 research scanner and tested both in phantom and in vivo. A continuous real-time refresh rate of 36 Hz was achieved in duplex combination with a standard B-mode at Pulse Repetition Frequency of 8 kHz. Accuracies of -11% on velocity and of 2° on angle measurements have been obtained in phantom experiments. Accompanying movies show how the method improves the quantitative measurements of blood velocities and details the flow configurations in the carotid artery of a volunteer.
Real-Time Blood Velocity Vector Measurement over a 2D Region / Ricci, Stefano; Ramalli, Alessandro; Bassi, Luca; Boni, Enrico; Tortoli, Piero. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL. - ISSN 0885-3010. - ELETTRONICO. - 65:(2018), pp. 201-209. [10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2781715]
Real-Time Blood Velocity Vector Measurement over a 2D Region
Ricci, Stefano
;Ramalli, Alessandro;Bassi, Luca;Boni, Enrico;Tortoli, Piero
2018
Abstract
Quantitative blood velocity measurements, as currently implemented in commercial ultrasound scanners, are based on Pulsed Wave spectral Doppler (PW) and are limited to detect the axial component of the velocity in a single sample volume. On the other hand, vector Doppler methods produce angle-independent estimates by, e.g. combining the frequency shifts measured from different directions. Moreover, thanks to the transmission of plane waves, the investigation of a 2D region is possible with high temporal resolution but, unfortunately, the clinical use of these methods is hampered by the massive calculation power required for their real-time execution. In this work, we present a novel approach based on the transmission of plane waves and the simultaneous reception of echoes from 16 distinct sub-apertures of a linear array probe, which produces 8 lines distributed over a 2D region. The method was implemented on the ULAO-OP 256 research scanner and tested both in phantom and in vivo. A continuous real-time refresh rate of 36 Hz was achieved in duplex combination with a standard B-mode at Pulse Repetition Frequency of 8 kHz. Accuracies of -11% on velocity and of 2° on angle measurements have been obtained in phantom experiments. Accompanying movies show how the method improves the quantitative measurements of blood velocities and details the flow configurations in the carotid artery of a volunteer.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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