Internal tissue displacement measurement based on ultrasonic wave Doppler signal digital detection and its application to fetal movement monitoring

We have developed a fetal movement monitoring system based on small displacement measurement of internal tissues. When ultrasonic pulses are transmitted to the fetus, the reflected ultrasonic waves which have a Doppler frequency shift due to the fetal movements are detected by using an ultrasonic pulsed Doppler technique. In this paper, we propose a displacement measurement method for internal tissues which is based on the Doppler signal digital detection technique. In the method, the received ultrasonic RF signals are sampled with a sampling frequency of four times higher than the centre frequency of the ultrasonic waves; the Doppler frequency shift signals are derived using digital signal processing. From the detected signals, the internal displacements are estimated using the arc-tangent method. The basic algorithm of the detection method has already been used in the area of blood flow sensing, however, we apply the algorithm to the displacement measurement of internal tissues. The comparison between the proposed method and the conventional method is presented. The fetal movement quantitative monitoring system based on the method which has been constructed is shown.     

Effect of wall scattering on SNR in off-axis differential-type laser Doppler velocimetry

Though various properties and applications of laser Doppler velocimetry have been extensively studied in the past decade, there is little discussion on the effect of light scattering from the surface of a cell on Doppler beat signals or on methods of reducing it. In this paper, the effect of light scattering from the surface of the cell is treated as a background noise and is studied theoretically and experimentally on the detecting process of Doppler beat signals in off-axis differential-type laser Doppler velocimetry. Laser Doppler velocimetry of an off-axis type is verified to be effective for measurement of the flow velocity in the vicinity of a scattering wall. The effect of the light scattered from the wall surface on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of Doppler beat signals is discussed in detail. The minimum distance, which is close to the wall and at which good Doppler beat signals can be obtained, is defined and determined quantitatively. This minimum distance is found to be strongly affected by the off-axis angle of the detecting optical system.     

Estimation of the blood Doppler frequency shift by a time-varying parametric approach

Doppler ultrasound is widely used in medical applications to extract the blood Doppler flow velocity in the arteries via spectral analysis. The spectral analysis of non-stationary signals and particularly Doppler signals requires adequate tools that should present both good time and frequency resolutions. It is well-known that the most commonly used time-windowed Fourier transform, which provides a time-frequency representation, is limited by the intrinsic trade-off between time and frequency resolutions. Parametric methods have then been introduced as an alternative to overcome this resolution problem. However, the performance of those methods deteriorates when high non-stationarities are present in the Doppler signal. For the purpose of accurately estimating the Doppler frequency shift, even when the temporal flow velocity is rapid (high non-stationarity), we propose to combine the use of the time-varying autoregressive (AR) method and the (dominant) pole frequency. This proposed method performs well in the context where non-stationarities are very high. A comparative evaluation has been made between classical (FFT based) and AR (both block and recursive) algorithms. Among recursive algorithms we test an adaptive recursive method as well as a time-varying recursive method. Finally, the superiority of the time-varying parametric approach in terms of frequency tracking and delay in the frequency estimate is illustrated for both simulated and in vivo Doppler signals.     

Influence of the organism interface on the breast cancer detection by UWB

Ultra-wide band (UWB) imaging technique is very attractive for the early breast cancer detection based on the obvious contrast in the electrical properties of malignant tumor to the normal fatty breast tissue. The tumor can be detected by analyzing the reflecting and scattering behavior of the UWB microwaves propagating in the breast. In this study, the influence of the organism interfaces is investigated from different cases of breast configuration involving different gland shapes as well as the tumor locations. Results show that the gland structure and tumor status have large influences on the reconstructed images generated from the detected signals due to the interface varieties. The tumor information in the proposed configurations can be obtained by series signal processing including eliminating the early time response of the detected signals caused by the direct wave and the reflection from the interface between the skin and the breast fat, and compensating the path loss of the propagating signal due to the radial spreading and the attenuation in the lossy breast. The location and the number of emitters and detectors affect the quality of the reconstructed image.     

Laser Doppler velocimeter for remote measurement of polluted water and aerosols discharges

A continuous wave Doppler velocimeter has been developed for remote estimation of the volume of polluted water and gaseous discharges using an actively stabilized ring dye laser. Doppler shifted backscattered signals induced by fluids in motion using heterodyne detection technique has been applied for measurement of Doppler shifts. Polluted water and gaseous discharge flow rates have been measured remotely for simulation purposes. The system is capable of measuring Doppler shifts as low as 0.25 MHz corresponding to 0.1 m/s velocities of the fluids.     

心动周期性多普勒波形的平均方法

许多临床上有用的多普勒小以形都是随时产是变化的，但又近似于周期心动周期的周期信号。为准确估计这些多普靳波形，并提取主同灵敏度的特征参数，有必要对它们按心吉期进行平均。     

An adaptive correlation ratemeter: a new method for Doppler fetal heart rate measurements

For use in a cardiotocograph, ultrasound Doppler fetal signals have been thought to provide merely a limited reliability of the fetal heart rate record because of the difficulty of signal processing to obtain a consistent trigger, although the signal itself is easy to obtain with an excellent signal-to-noise ratio.However, the authors have developed a unique signal processing system using a correlation technique with an automatic adaptation algorithm, which solved almost all of the difficulties associated with the old Doppler cardiotocograph and showed that the ultrasound Doppler fetal signal can also provide heart rate records compatible to that obtained by a fetal ECG system.The authors are sure that their method is a most promising one in the coming age of microprocessor-oriented instrumentation.     

颠簸摇摆引起的车辆测速误差分析

分析了车辆颠簸摇摆时单光束测速系统的测量误差,提出了一种基于Janus配置的激光测速系统。该系统由两个单光束系统组成,安装于车辆底部,分别向车头和车尾方向以相同的倾角发射同频激光束,测量各自散射回波的多普勒频移,根据两多普勒频移和发射倾角得到摇摆角的值,进而求得车辆运行速度。理论分析和仿真结果表明:单光束系统的测速精度受光束的发射倾角、车辆摇摆角以及车辆垂直方向的速度影响较大;Janus系统对车辆的颠簸摇摆不敏感,可得到较高的测速精度,颠簸起伏速度为0.3m/s,当摇摆角为16°时,误差小于0.5%。     

A wavelet space based approach for Doppler ultrasound blood signals separation

In medical Doppler ultrasound systems, a high-pass filter which is usually employed to filter wall clutter components, will remove the information of the low velocity blood flow. To extract intact Doppler ultrasound blood signals, a novel approach is proposed based on the spatially selective noise filtration. The wall signals are firstly estimated by the spatially selective noise filtration from wavelet spatial correlation property. Then the wall clutters are exactly obtained by a wavelet threshold de-noising technique which eliminates the residual blood flow signals. Finally the intact blood flow signals are achieved by subtracting the wall signals from the mixed signals. This approach is applied to both computer simulated and in vivo carotid Doppler ultrasound signals. The experiment results show that the wavelet space based approach can exactly extract the blood flow signals, and achieve about 45% lower results in the mean absolute error than that of the high-pass filtering. This approach is expected to be an effective method to remove the wall clutters in Doppler ultrasound systems.     

Its optical and signal-analysing systems and some experimental results of flow velocity

A laser Doppler microscope, consisting of optical and signal-analysing systems, has been developed. Flow velocity can be measured with an extremely high spatial resolution over an area of up to 10μm in diameter. The optical system consists of a microscope having two types of penetrative and reflective systems. On the basis of the characteristic analysis of Doppler beat signals from the laser Doppler microscope, the signal-analysing system, which uses a tracking filter together with a digital-hold element and a time-to-pulse height converter, has been found to be the most suitable for analysing beat signals. Some experimental results obtained using the laser Dopller microscope for measuring flow velocities, both in a small square cell in a venule, and in a capillary over the web of a frog's foot are presented.     

光栅衍射多普勒效应位移测量的理论分析和实验结果

本文研究了一种利用光栅衍射的多普勒效应进行位移测量的新方法.文中进行了光路结构和测量原理的理论分析,得出测量公式,证明了用光栅拾取多路差拍信号的相位关系.实验结果表明,它具有高的信号质量,可有效地用于位移的精密测量.     

Response of photomultiplier tubes to background cosmic radiation

The properties of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) have been investigated experimentally. The flux of cosmic rays has been used as a source of signals detected directly by a PMT (without a scintillator). The number of detected events versus the size of the PMT’s transparent front window has been studied. To this end, modified FEU-167 multipliers (FEU-167M) have been fabricated in which all parameters have been kept unchanged except for the size of the front window, which has been decreased. It has been found that the number of detected signals is roughly proportional to the surface area of the window. Hence, a signal induced by background cosmic rays arises in the glass of the PMT’s front screen. This circumstance should be taken into consideration when operating with different PMTs.     

Frequency stabilization of an internal mirror HeNe laser at 543.5 nm to I2-Saturated absorptions

An internal mirror green HeNe (GRENE) laser at 543.5 nm has been frequency stabilized to I₂-Doppler free absorption signals with a frequency stability of few parts in 10¹⁰. The saturated absorption signals were detected using doubly-differential saturated absorption which eliminates the Doppler background and allows first-derivative locking methods. Two absorption lines R(12)26-0 and R(106)28-0 of ¹²⁷I² were investigated and the hyperfine structure was resolved. Random polarization flips of the GRENE were suppressed by applying a transverse magnetic field to the laser tube near the anode.Present address: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, D-3300 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. Germany     

Millimeter Wave Radar for detecting the speech signal applications

MilliMeter Wave (MMW) Doppler Radar with grating structures for the applications of detecting speech signals has been discovered in our laboratory. The operating principle of detection the acoustic wave signals based on the Wave Propagation Theory and Wave Equations of The ElectroMagnetic Wave (EMW) and Acoustic Wave (AW) propagating, scattering, reflecting and interacting has been investigated. The experimental and observation results have been provided to verify that MMW CW 40GHz dielectric integrated radar can detect and identify out exactly the existential speech signals in free space from a person speaking. The received sound signal have been reproduced by the DSP and the reproducer.Research project supported financially from the NSFC (National Natural Science Foundaton of China).     

Doppler ultrasound signals simulation from vessels with various stenosis degrees

As a non-invasive method, the Doppler ultrasound technique is used to detect the vessel stenosis. To search for characteristics of Doppler ultrasound signals sensitive to the stenosis, a computer simulation approach is proposed in this paper to generate Doppler ultrasound signals from vessels with various stenosis degrees. The blood flow velocity distribution in a stenosed vessel is firstly calculated using the transient finite element method (FEM). Then the power spectral density of Doppler signals is estimated using the overall-distribution nonparametric estimation method. Finally Doppler signals are generated using the cosine-superposed method. The proposed approach is proved to be useful for simulating Doppler ultrasound signals from vessels with various stenosis degrees. It is also shown that characteristics of Doppler ultrasound signals may be used to estimate the vessel's stenosis degree.     

基于激光多普勒频移的钢轨缺陷监测

针对现阶段我国铁路上应用的探伤设备只能在天窗时间进行人工巡检,无法在线监测的问题,提出一种基于超声导波的激光多普勒频移法钢轨内部缺陷监测方法。首先,引入环境温度作为变量改进了半解析有限元方法,并应用该方法获得了我国无缝线路CHN60钢轨在特定温度下的频散曲线。通过分析振型并结合激励响应算法确定了适于检测缺陷的模态及其激励方式,从而激励该超声导波模态使其在钢轨中传播。然后,应用半反半透玻璃镜将激光分为参考光和测量光,测量光通过Bragg Cell进行频偏照射钢轨表面,通过反射光产生的多普勒频移与参考光干涉得到光强度变化曲线,经过信号处理及标定测得钢轨内部缺陷的回波速度信号,再经过数字化处理和计算得到缺陷的位置。最后,在北京环形铁路试验基地进行了现场实验,以钢轨接地孔模拟钢轨内部核伤,得到缺陷定位误差均小于0. 5 m,验证了该方法的可行性。使用激光多普勒频移方法检测导波信号从而定位缺陷的方法可以有效避免由于换能器接触性测量而产生的误差。该方法在不影响列车的正常运营的同时,实现了全天候无间断的在线监测,提高了检测效率。     

A directional quantifying Doppler system for measurement of transport velocity of blood.

A transcutaneous Doppler device has been developed that measures primarily the directional transport velocity of blood, averaged over the vessel diameter, irrespective of its flow in adjacent vessels. Directional information is obtained by high or low-pass filtering of frequency converted versions of the received Doppler signals, applying low-cost, sharp filters in a superheterodyne system. Upper and lower channel signals are quantified separately to average directional velocity. Linear results from in vitro measurements are obtained.     

The Doppler response to gravitational waves from a binary star source

The equations are developed for spacecraft Doppler detection of periodic gravitational waves from a single binary star source. Graphical examples are included to indicate the great variety of Doppler signals which can be generated by these systems.     

内腔激光磁共振吸收及饱和特性

从气体激光运转特性出发,我们得到了内腔激光磁共振吸收及其无多普勒展宽饱和吸收的一阶微商信号的数学表达式.并以NO作为吸收分子研究了激光磁共振信号强度与样品气压和激光光强的关系,同时对内腔激光磁共振中无多普勒饱和吸收特性进行了详细的讨论.     

基于高速移动通信的虚拟天线阵列理论研究

在高速移动通信中, 多普勒频移对通信性能产生严重的影响, 通常需要对接收信号的多普勒频移进行估计并进行补偿. 本文研究在对单个天线接收的高速移动通信信号进行频移估计和补偿的基础上产生多路无频偏的信号, 并虚拟为天线阵列的输出以提高系统的接收增益. 首先讨论了“均匀时间采样”和“均匀相位采样”的关系, 并根据两者之间的关系提出了补偿多普勒频移和虚拟天线阵列的算法, 即对采样信号进行插值、均匀相位抽取以后, 再进行均匀时间采样. 然后分析了算法对高速移动通信系统性能的改善作用, 并提出了算法的硬件实现结构. 通过数值仿真验证了算法的干扰抑制能力和误码性能, 结果表明本文提出的虚拟天线阵列算法能够改善飞机、高铁上的高速移动通信系统的性能.