二维解卷积波束形成水下高分辨三维声成像

针对水下三维成像的空间分辨率难以提高,且具有较高旁瓣级的问题,提出了一种二维解卷积波束形成高分辨三维声成像算法,该算法首先完成任意距离切片的平面阵波束形成,近场情况下采用菲涅尔近似实现近场平面阵波束形成,然后通过二维解卷积技术对任意距离切片的二维波束形成结果进行解卷积处理,去除阵列指向性函数的影响,改善波束响应非理想冲击函数所造成波束形成主瓣宽及旁瓣级高的问题。通过计算机仿真分析,新算法可以有效的提高水下三维成像的空间分辨率,抑制旁瓣级,并能够在较宽频带和不同阵列孔径内保持与常规波束形成相当的稳定性。通过试验研究,新方法比常规波束形成实际目标成像分辨率提高一倍,最高旁瓣级下降20 dB,验证了该算法在实际系统中的有效性.      

菲涅尔区板天线赋形波束的最优逼近

从赋形波束最优逼近的观点入手，应用加权余量法和Prony法，研究基于直线阵列激励方式及其阵元空间分布的优化设计，从而实现菲涅尔区板天线辐射波束及焦区场分布的最佳数值逼近技术。所用方法适合于对各种菲涅尔区聚焦结构物理赋形波束的最优逼近，相关研究一方面对于设计高性能的直线阵列天线具有重要的参考价值，另一方面，对于进一步深入研究菲涅尔区聚焦结构的工作机理具有理论指导意义。     

菲涅尔波带片-球面结构透镜的成像分析

设计了一种新型的菲涅尔波带片 球面透镜。应用衍射光学方法,从理论上研究了这种透镜的变焦功能和分辨特性。数值结果表明,在衍射空间有两个焦点,改变波带数可以使两个焦点分开任意距离。当波带数足够大时,可以使透射空间只有一个向透镜方向迁移的焦点。与单一的透镜和单一的波带片相比,这种菲涅尔波带片 球面透镜的横向和纵向分辨率同时得到了提高。因此,这种新型的结构透镜可应用于三维成像。     

菲涅耳波带板X射线成像的快速计算方法

菲涅耳波带板直接成像,应用到激光等离子体或惯性约束聚变靶的X射线成像诊断,可实现μm甚至亚μm的空间分辨能力。在对成像进行数值模拟时,考虑到光源的光谱带宽和几何尺度对成像的影响,要进行菲涅耳-基尔霍夫衍射积分与卷积等数值计算,需占用大量计算机内存并且耗费运行机时。改进了数值计算方法,采用了蒙特卡罗积分法和新的卷积算法。模拟了菲涅耳波带板对大尺度多色X射线源的二维成像,新算法与以往算法相比,可显著减少运算机时,在台式机上实现模拟成像的快速计算。结果表明随着光源尺度增大、光谱带宽增加,像的背景增强,导致反衬度与成像质量下降。     

基于液晶空间光调制器的光束变换研究

搭建了基于液晶空间光调制器的光束变换光路系统,介绍了一种通过编写程序来实现特定的光束强度分布的方法。利用MATLAB编写了闪耀光栅、菲涅尔透镜、环聚焦透镜、柱面菲涅尔透镜、小孔以及衍射调制板的灰度光栅图,并将其加载于液晶空间光调制器上,成功实现了光束变换。     

超宽带微波检测早期乳腺肿瘤三维仿真

超宽带微波成像技术可作为有效的方法用于乳房早期乳腺肿瘤的检测. 该方法基于乳房组织和肿瘤之间较大的电学特性差异的特点进行成像, 能提供足够的分辨率以及足够的穿透深度. 本文采用时域有限差分方法建立超宽带微波信号在三维乳房组织中传播的模型, 并采用单极德拜模型完成了生物组织色散特性的模拟. 利用8发9收的天线阵列实现微波肿瘤探测, 利用共焦成像算法对乳房组织进行图像重构并进行肿瘤定位. 仿真结果显示共焦成像算法能够实现最小直径3 mm的肿瘤的检测, 同时证实了超宽带微波成像技术应用于早期乳腺肿瘤检测的有效性. 关键词： 微波成像 肿瘤检测 时域有限差分 共焦成像算法     

基于菲涅耳衍射的无透镜相干衍射成像

相干衍射成像是一种新型的无透镜成像技术,在光学测量、显微成像和自适应光学等领域有重要应用．本文提出一种基于单幅菲涅耳衍射强度图样的无透镜相干衍射成像方法;该方法采用特殊设计的卷积可解阵列抽样屏,通过对抽样物波的菲涅耳衍射强度图样进行非迭代的逆菲涅耳变换和滤波等数字处理实现被测物波复振幅信息的恢复,最后通过数字衍射得到物体的数字再现像．文中对抽样孔径、衍射距离、图像传感器尺寸等参数对再现像的影响进行了理论分析和模拟实验研究．发现在针孔大小和记录孔径大小一定的条件下,存在一个最佳的衍射距离;衍射距离过大会给重建图样带来噪声,衍射距离过小则会使再现象的分辨率降低．文中还对抽样针孔大小对系统成像分辨率的影响进行了分析,为进一步开展相关实验研究和应用提供了理论依据．     

基于菲涅耳透镜阵列的红外气体传感器

菲涅耳透镜同时具有分光与会聚特性, 且体积小、重量轻和易复制, 使其在光谱检测中得到逐步应用, 但典型光谱成像仪采用菲涅耳透镜沿光轴扫描的方法来获得连续谱线, 不利于光谱仪的稳定性。考虑到气体探测需求, 选用多通道方式来获得多光谱, 提出了一种基于菲涅耳透镜阵列的新型红外气体传感器, 可实现吸收波长在3～5 μm的CO2,CO,CH4,SO2气体的实时检测。利用球面波的传输理论和瑞利判据, 推导了菲涅耳透镜光谱分辨率与透镜结构参数之间的函数关系, 并以光谱分辨率小于50nm为性能指标, 对1μm工艺的8台阶菲涅耳透镜阵列的结构参数进行了计算和误差分析。结果表明, 透镜阵列所需焦距为47.84 mm, 平均数值孔径大于0.4。     

基于菲涅耳透镜色散的双波长荧光显微深度成像

提出一种非轴向扫描的细胞显微深度成像技术,在显微系统中加入菲涅耳透镜,利用菲涅耳透镜的色散将不同激发光波长聚焦到不同的轴向位置,以实现对两个或多个焦平面同时成像.基于405nm和532nm两种激发光波长,在传统的荧光显微镜的激发路径中加入对应的两个成像探测器来探测两个不同焦平面所对应像面的成像信息,搭建得到一个能够实现探测深度约为12μm的基于菲涅耳透镜的荧光显微深度成像系统,并与基于显微物镜色差无菲涅耳透镜的荧光显微深度成像系统的成像深度和轴向分辨率进行实验对比.实验结果表明:加入菲涅耳透镜能够实现系统对不同焦面的同时成像;对于同一荧光波段,保证系统横向分辨率的同时,扩大了成像景深.该系统可以实现荧光生物细胞内部不同深度处的多波段同时探测.     

环形阵列超声断层扫描高分辨率成像方法

介绍了针对环形阵列超声断层扫描的高分辨率全波形反演成像方法,不同于传统的延时叠加和渡越时间断层扫描,该方法充分考虑声传播的透射、反射、散射等特点,通过数据匹配的方法重构目标体声学参数图像。开发了环形超声换能器阵列构建超声断层扫描成像系统,并设计了适合检验成像算法的数值和物理模型,分别使用基于射线理论的回波延时叠加和初至波渡越时间断层扫描、以及基于波动理论的全波形反演方法对目标体进行图像重建,并对比其原理、分辨率、计算量等方面的特点,系统性分析了波动方法相对传统射线方法的优点和不足。结果表明,全波形反演这类充分考虑接收信号多种物理特征的方法可用于较高分辨率的声参数成像,适合与传统方法结合设计有效的超声断层扫描成像系统。     

高分辨率快速数字化光声CT乳腺肿瘤成像

提出了一种基于聚焦线性阵列探测器的快速光声计算机断层成像技术（光声CT）.在光声二维图像重建中,根据阵列探测器机械扫描和电子扫描相结合的组合扫描模式,提出了改进的有限场滤波反投影重建算法.一方面该算法适合多元探测器旋转扫描模式,另一方面探测器的指向性函数作为反投影的权重因子提高了系统的横向分辨率.同时,该成像系统还利用柱面声透镜实现Z轴方向上的聚焦扫描以实现三维层析成像.实验中,这套成像系统空间分辨率达到0.2mm,Z轴方向分辨率为1.5mm,扫描一幅二维图像仅需150s,得到 关键词： 光声CT 有限场滤波反投影算法 声透镜聚焦 乳腺肿瘤检测     

High-resolution imaging without iteration: a fast and robust method for breast ultrasound tomography

Breast ultrasound tomography has the potential to improve the cost, safety, and reliability of breast cancer screening and diagnosis over the gold-standard of mammography. Vital to achieving this potential is the development of imaging algorithms to unravel the complex anatomy of the breast and its mechanical properties. The solution most commonly relied upon is time-of-flight tomography, but this exhibits low resolution due to the presence of diffraction effects. Iterative full-wave inversion methods present one solution to achieve higher resolution, but these are slow and are not guaranteed to converge to the correct solution. Presented here is HARBUT, the hybrid algorithm for robust breast ultrasound tomography, which utilizes the complementary strengths of time-of-flight and diffraction tomography resulting in a direct, fast, robust and accurate high resolution method of reconstructing the sound speed through the breast. The algorithm is shown to produce accurate reconstructions with realistic data from a complex three-dimensional simulation, with masses as small as 4 mm being clearly visible.     

A measurement-domain adaptive beamforming approach for ultrasound instrument based on distributed compressed sensing: Initial development

High efficient acquisition of the sensor array signals and accurate reconstruction of the backscattering medium are important issues in ultrasound imaging instrument. This paper presents a novel measurement-domain adaptive beamforming approach (MABF) based on distributed compressed sensing (DCS) which seeks to simultaneously measure signals that are each individually sparse in some domain(s) and also mutually correlated with much few measurements under the Nyquist rate. Instead of sampling conventional backscattering signals at the Nyquist rate, few linear projections of the returned signal with random vectors are taken as measurements, which can reduce the amount of samples per channel greatly and makes the real-time transmission of sensor array data possible. Then high resolution ultrasound image is reconstructed from the few measurements of DCS directly by the proposed MABF algorithm without recovering the raw sensor signals with complex convex optimization algorithm. The simulated results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Attenuation correction with region growing method used in the positron emission mammography imaging system

The Positron Emission Mammography imaging system(PEMi) provides a novel nuclear diagnosis method dedicated for breast imaging. With a better resolution than whole body PET, PEMi can detect millimeter-sized breast tumors. To address the requirement of semi-quantitative analysis with a radiotracer concentration map of the breast, a new attenuation correction method based on a three-dimensional seeded region growing image segmentation(3DSRG-AC) method has been developed. The method gives a 3D connected region as the segmentation result instead of image slices. The continuity property of the segmentation result makes this new method free of activity variation of breast tissues. The threshold value chosen is the key process for the segmentation method. The first valley in the grey level histogram of the reconstruction image is set as the lower threshold, which works well in clinical application.Results show that attenuation correction for PEMi improves the image quality and the quantitative accuracy of radioactivity distribution determination. Attenuation correction also improves the probability of detecting small and early breast tumors.     

Compensation of fat layer effects in ultrasound imaging using an inclined-fat-layer model derived from magnetic resonance images

When cutaneous fat layers are in the ultrasound imaging region, the phase aberration caused by the fat layers induce image distortion as well as spatial resolution degradation. The phase aberration may complicate clinical procedures particularly when ultrasound imaging is employed for spatial positioning of medical devices like a biopsy needle or HIFU. To compensate the fat layer effects more precisely in beamforming, an inclined-fat-layer model has been established from the magnetic resonance images of the same imaging region as in the ultrasound scanning. We have verified utility of the fat layer model by taking images of a metal needle put into an inclined-fat-layer mimicking phantom. The ultrasound images taken with a 128-element linear phase array operating at 6 MHz have shown better resolution and less distortion when receive beamforming was performed with the phase delay data derived from the inclined-fat-layer model.     

圆合成孔径声呐多点定位运动补偿

圆合成孔径声呐(CSAS)的成像性能受平台运动误差影响而下降,利用单侧回波可估计CSAS基阵的斜距误差,但单侧回波在小测绘带时无法估计升沉误差,针对此问题,提出了一种利用单侧回波信号的声呐平台三维运动估计和补偿方法。首先,对CSAS在不同观测角度的目标回波取极大值获得目标回波的到达时间;其次,基于多个点目标的到达时间建立CSAS三维定位模型;然后利用列文伯格-马夸尔特方法对声呐三维坐标进行估计;最后将位置估计结果与时域反投影成像方法结合实现对目标的成像.仿真结果表明:该方法能精确估计声呐平台运动误差,其空间坐标的估计误差小于仿真信号波长的1/8,从而精确补偿了CSAS在不同空间采样点上的阵元回波时间差,显著提高了目标成像质量。湖上试验结果表明,该算法能够实现对CSAS的运动误差补偿。仿真和试验结果均验证了方法的可行性和有效性。      

Acoustic power measurement using an optical heterodyne method

An optical heterodyne method is presented for measuring the Raman-Nath parameter of ultrasound. A light beam passes through a phase grating induced by ultrasound and then is recombined with another beam of light at a shifted frequency. The interference distribution of the two light beams is measured by a photodetector placed in the Fresnel region. The Raman-Nath parameter is determined from the amplitudes of frequency components in the beat signal and is independent of observation position. A theoretical analysis is given which includes pulsed ultrasound. Acoustic power determined using the technique is shown to agree fairly well with the radiation force method. Acoustic fields from a linear array transducer are also investigated. A problem involved in focused ultrasound is discussed.