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Sensors and Materials, Volume 31, Number 12(1) (2019)
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pp. 4047-4059
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https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2019.2382
Published: December 6, 2019

High-frequency Ultrasound Detection Technique with Contrast Agents [PDF]

Jian-Xing Wu, Kuei-Hsiang Chao, Hsiang-Yueh Lai, Jian-Hung Liu, Howard Chung, and Hsiao-Chuan Liu

(Received March 20, 2019; Accepted October 18, 2019)

Keywords: chirp, ultrasound, microbubble, contrast agents, imaging

High-frequency ultrasound with contrast agents provides contrast enhancement for imaging, has potential for application to drug delivery, and enables local genomics research. However, high-frequency ultrasound has a significant limitation, the achievable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)and depth of penetration. In this study, we developed a new ultrasound system that involves chirp-coded-excitation ultrasound imaging with chirped pulses as trigger signals and a cardinal frequency of 30 MHz. A chirp is a coded signal that linearly spans a frequency bandwidth B = f2−f1, where f1 and f2 are the starting and ending frequencies, respectively. A new chirped pulses with contrast agents to minimize the attenuation of energy in human tissues increased the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by 20 dB for high-frequency ultrasonic flow imaging of the heart of zebrafish and increased the penetration depth to 2.2 mm with pulse compression and a handmade expander. On the other hand, in a microbubble experiment, adopting various echo signal concentrations resulted in the desired distribution of different types of microbubbles. Using the system we developed, we experimentally demonstrated that the chirp-coded excitation reduces the SNR by about 43 dB compared with unipolar and bipolar pulse excitations.

Corresponding author: Jian-Xing Wu


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Jian-Xing Wu, Kuei-Hsiang Chao, Hsiang-Yueh Lai, Jian-Hung Liu, Howard Chung, and Hsiao-Chuan Liu, High-frequency Ultrasound Detection Technique with Contrast Agents, Sens. Mater., Vol. 31, No. 12, 2019, p. 4047-4059.



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