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Image Formation of Multifrequency Vibro-Acoustography: Theory and Computational Simulations

G.T. Silva, M.W. Urban
2005 XVIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI'05)  
This paper presents an extension of vibro-acoustography imaging technique.  ...  The PSF is evaluated for an eight-and a sixteen-element sector array transducers. Three phantom images are used to show how the system transforms them into observed data.  ...  The stress field formation of standard vibro-acoustography has been investigated for spherical concave [10] , linear array [11] , and sector array transducers [12, 13] .  ... 
doi:10.1109/sibgrapi.2005.30 dblp:conf/sibgrapi/SilvaU05 fatcat:th5ddo3iazamxnbymh3r6isc5e

Implementation of vibro-acoustography on a clinical ultrasound system

M. W. Urban, C. Chalek, R. R. Kinnick, T. M. Kinter, B. Haider, J. F. Greenleaf, K. E. Thomenius, M. Fatemi
2011 IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control  
Vibro-acoustography has demonstrated feasibility and usefulness in imaging of breast and prostate tissue.  ...  We will discuss aperture definition for the two ultrasound beams and beamforming using a linear array transducer.  ...  This work was supported in part by grants CA121579, CA127235, and CA091956 from the National Institutes of Health.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tuffc.2011.1927 pmid:21693399 pmcid:PMC3138131 fatcat:yqp5fgacarg4vhikzkruea3wmi

A Review of Vibro-acoustography and its Applications in Medicine

Matthew W. Urban, Azra Alizad, Wilkins Aquino, James F. Greenleaf, Mostafa Fatemi
2011 Current Medical Imaging Reviews  
Vibro-acoustography is a speckle-free ultrasound based imaging modality that can visualize normal and abnormal soft tissue through mapping the acoustic response of the object to a harmonic radiation force  ...  In vibro-acoustography, the ultrasound energy is converted from high ultrasound frequencies to a low acoustic frequency (acoustic emission) that is often two orders of magnitude smaller than the ultrasound  ...  Disclosure of financial interests: Mayo Clinic and two of the authors (JFG and MF) have a financial interest associated with technology used in this research; the technology has been licensed in part for  ... 
doi:10.2174/157340511798038648 pmid:22423235 pmcid:PMC3298414 fatcat:pit4em6vmrbetnrgmv6lrnou3e

Ultrasound Radiation Force for the Assessment of Bone Fracture Healing in Children: An In Vivo Pilot Study

Siavash Ghavami, Adriana Gregory, Jeremy Webb, Mahdi Bayat, Max Denis, Viksit Kumar, Todd Milbrand, A. Larson, Mostafa Fatemi, Azra Alizad
2019 Sensors  
We propose a new type of quantitative vibro-acoustic method based on the acoustic radiation force of ultrasound for bone characterization in persons with fracture.  ...  This prospective study included 15 patients: 12 with clavicle fractures and three with ulna fractures. Contralateral intact bones were used as controls.  ...  Treder for her assistance in patient recruitment. Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Sensors 2019, 19, 955  ... 
doi:10.3390/s19040955 fatcat:uy7myhtewjgxpeei4r5w4nvife

Deconvolution of vibroacoustic images using a simulation model based on a three dimensional point spread function

Talita Perciano, Matthew W. Urban, Nelson D.A. Mascarenhas, Mostafa Fatemi, Alejandro C. Frery, Glauber T. Silva
2013 Ultrasonics  
Vibro-acoustography (VA) is a medical imaging method based on the difference-frequency generation produced by the mixture of two focused ultrasound beams.  ...  The obtained images may have a resolution of 0.7--0.8 mm. Current VA systems based on confocal or linear array transducers generate C-scan images at the beam focal plane.  ...  In this context, vibro-acoustography (VA) [1] has become a medical imaging tool for investigating calcifications in human arteries [2, 3, 4] , microcalcifications in the breast [5, 6] , liver tumors  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.ultras.2012.03.011 pmid:22617182 fatcat:ekjjnhhq6fatrbsyvikfanqapa

Emerging Ultrasound Technologies for Early Markers of Disease

Ernest J. Feleppa, S. Kaisar Alam, Cheri X. Deng
2002 Disease Markers  
in principle can be used in concert with other imaging modalities to offer the possibility of further improvements in disease detection, evaluation, and monitoring.  ...  Each provides independent information and, used alone, each can provide powerful new imaging capabilities; combined with each other, their capabilities may be even greater in many applications; and all  ...  Acknowledgments The work of the authors has been supported in part by NIH grants CA53561, CA84274, CA84588, EB000238, and HL59302.  ... 
doi:10.1155/2002/167104 pmid:14646040 pmcid:PMC3851106 fatcat:lepslpfqrvdatikshno2pf5yla

Radiation force as a physical mechanism for ultrasonic neurostimulation of the ex vivo retina

Mike D. Menz, Patrick Ye, Kamyar Firouzi, Amin Nikoozadeh, Kim Butts Pauly, Pierre Khuri-Yakub, Stephen A. Baccus
2019 Journal of Neuroscience  
that neural activity was strongly modulated by the distance between the transducer and the electrode array showing the influence of standing waves on the response.  ...  We imaged the isolated salamander retina of either sex during ultrasonic stimuli that drive ganglion cell activity and observed micron scale displacements, consistent with radiation force, the nonlinear  ...  In comparison, vibro-acoustography generally uses difference frequencies in the range of 20 -100 kHz to mechanically vibrate tissue via dynamic radiation force to measure elasticity (Doherty et al., 2013  ... 
doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2394-18.2019 pmid:31196935 pmcid:PMC6687898 fatcat:wgolfu3p65ddxb7wghriz6iywa

Seventh International Conference

Colin Murray Parkes, Rosie Dalzell, Mike Pearson, Martin Newman
2005 Bereavement Care  
Hydrostatic pressure in fluid can also be reconstructed together with fluid parameters in the same manner.  ...  data used in this study.  ...  In Vibro-acoustography, a confocal ultrasound transducer with two elements is employed. The ultrasound beams interact in the focal zone producing an AM force [1] .  ... 
doi:10.1080/02682620508657640 fatcat:hwoqd64zz5b6bkhpyteeazib5u

Analysis of room transfer function and reverberant signal statistics

Eleftheria Georganti, John Mourjopoulos, Finn Jacobsen
2008 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  
Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ...  Vibro-acoustography ͑VA͒ is based on conversion of ultrasound energy from high frequency to a low frequency.  ...  The forward-looking sonar uses a patented "sectorized emission" architecture. The images are side-scanlike.  ... 
doi:10.1121/1.2935346 fatcat:lxgnqr6tozajhge3ydet3xomam

A virtual auditory environment for investigating the auditory signal processing of realistic sounds

Sylvain Favrot, Jörg M. Buchholz
2008 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  
Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ...  Vibro-acoustography ͑VA͒ is based on conversion of ultrasound energy from high frequency to a low frequency.  ...  The forward-looking sonar uses a patented "sectorized emission" architecture. The images are side-scanlike.  ... 
doi:10.1121/1.2936003 fatcat:ontu6yamdvgbnooet5fe36fm74

Amplitude modulation depth discrimination in hearing‐impaired and normal‐hearing listeners

Stephan D. Ewert, Jutta Volmer, Torsten Dau, Jesko Verhey
2008 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  
The new model was validated in comparison with predictions by reference models ͑e.g. FEM͒ and with the results of experiments in an anechoic chamber and in real rooms.  ...  Measurement of room-to-room airborne sound insulation with an access floor in a dwelling unit of condominium.  ...  Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ... 
doi:10.1121/1.2935715 fatcat:qsqohnv63fdsjgegqb2h5s7r7q

Cross‐spectral synergy and consonant identification

Thomas Ulrich Christiansen, Steven Greenberg
2008 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  
The new model was validated in comparison with predictions by reference models ͑e.g. FEM͒ and with the results of experiments in an anechoic chamber and in real rooms.  ...  Measurement of room-to-room airborne sound insulation with an access floor in a dwelling unit of condominium.  ...  Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ... 
doi:10.1121/1.2935680 fatcat:znwocm35unasharfwbcap5omim

The perceptual flow of phonetic feature processing

Steven Greenberg, Thomas Ulrich Christiansen
2008 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  
The new model was validated in comparison with predictions by reference models ͑e.g. FEM͒ and with the results of experiments in an anechoic chamber and in real rooms.  ...  Measurement of room-to-room airborne sound insulation with an access floor in a dwelling unit of condominium.  ...  Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ... 
doi:10.1121/1.2935993 fatcat:l2ix2ph575gh7l27xtjq264qkm

Temporal suppression and augmentation of click-evoked otoacoustic emissions

Sarah Verhulst, James M. Harte, Torsten Dau
2008 Hearing Research  
The new model was validated in comparison with predictions by reference models ͑e.g. FEM͒ and with the results of experiments in an anechoic chamber and in real rooms.  ...  Measurement of room-to-room airborne sound insulation with an access floor in a dwelling unit of condominium.  ...  Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.heares.2008.09.008 pmid:18926894 fatcat:bijdlpxpzfcsrjeefayvvu4pl4

Temporal suppression and augmentation of click‐evoked otoacoustic emissions

Sarah Verhulst, James M. Harte, Torsten Dau
2008 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  
The new model was validated in comparison with predictions by reference models ͑e.g. FEM͒ and with the results of experiments in an anechoic chamber and in real rooms.  ...  Measurement of room-to-room airborne sound insulation with an access floor in a dwelling unit of condominium.  ...  Newly developed imaging modalities include shear wave elasticity imaging, supersonic shear wave imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, and vibro-acoustography.  ... 
doi:10.1121/1.2935694 fatcat:z6yidzqqendznbmrczb3woaiv4
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