Effects of motion on high frame rate contrast enhanced echocardiography and its correction
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Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Contrast echocardiography (CE) ultrasound with microbubble contrast agents have significantly advanced our capability in assessing cardiac function, including myocardium perfusion imaging and quantification. However in conventional CE techniques with line by line scanning, the frame rate is limited to tens of frames per second and image quality is low. Recent research works in high frame-rate (HFR) ultrasound have shown significant improvement of the frame rate in non-contrast cardiac imaging. But with a higher frame rate, the coherent compounding of HFR CE images shows some artifacts due to the motion of the microbubbles. In this work we demonstrate the impact of this motion on compounded HFR CE in simulation and then apply a motion correction algorithm on in-vivo data acquired from the left ventricle (LV) chamber of a sheep. It shows that even if with the fast flow found inside the LV, the contrast is improved at least 100%.
Date Issued
2017-11-02
Date Acceptance
2017-09-06
Citation
2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2017, 2017
ISSN
1948-5719
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Volume
2017
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
EP/M011933/1
Source
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Physics, Applied
Engineering
Physics
In-vivo High frame rate / ultrafast contrast echocardiography
Motion effects and correction
Coherent compounding
Contrast enhanced ultrasound
Pulse Inversion
ULTRASOUND
MICROBUBBLES
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-09-06
Finish Date
2017-09-09
Coverage Spatial
Washington, DC
Date Publish Online
2017-11-02