Finite Transducer Size Compensation in Two-Dimensional Photoacoustic Computed Tomography

Soheil  Hakakzadeh; Moein Mozaffarzadeh; Seyed Masood Mostafavi; Mohammadreza  Amjadian; Zahra  Kavehvash; Martin Verweij; Nico de Jong

doi:10.1109/IUS52206.2021.9593757

Finite Transducer Size Compensation in Two-Dimensional Photoacoustic Computed Tomography

Soheil Hakakzadeh, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Seyed Masood Mostafavi, Mohammadreza Amjadian, Zahra Kavehvash, Martin Verweij, Nico de Jong

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Abstract

In circular photoacoustic computed tomography, for data acquisition, a single-element transducer rotates around the region of interest (ROI). Due to the limited acceptance angle of the finite size transducer, the reconstructed image becomes blurred, and tangential resolution/contrast degrades in off-center locations in the ROI. In this paper, we propose a compensation method in which in addition to the circular scanning, the transducer rotates around its center (with specific angles) at each detection point. The superposition of these central rotations and non-rotated transducer mimics a virtual detector with a wide acceptance angle. The angles are calculated based on the central frequency and diameter of the transducer and the radius of the region-of-interest. Three types of numerical phantom (point-like, vasculature and Derenzo) were used to evaluate the performance of our method. Features of Olympus NDT, V326-SU transducer were used to assemble the numerical data. The results show that the proposed method provides better structural information by lowering the image blurring, improves the tangential resolution by 90% and increases peak signal-to-noise ratio by 14%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-0355-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-4777-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS52206.2021.9593757
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) - Virtual at Xi'an, China Duration: 11 Sept 2021 → 16 Sept 2021

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Name	IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
ISSN (Print)	1948-5719

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Conference	2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Abbreviated title	IUS 2021
Country/Territory	China
City	Virtual at Xi'an
Period	11/09/21 → 16/09/21

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Keywords

Finite size transducer
Image blurring
Photoacoustic imaging
virtual source. Resolution

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Hakakzadeh, S., Mozaffarzadeh, M., Mostafavi, S. M., Amjadian, M., Kavehvash, Z., Verweij, M., & de Jong, N. (2021). Finite Transducer Size Compensation in Two-Dimensional Photoacoustic Computed Tomography. In 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS): Proceedings (pp. 1-3). Article 9593757 (IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS52206.2021.9593757

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