Ultrasound Doppler System's Resolution Using Coherent Plane-Wave Compounding Technique
Abstract
Among modern ultrasound technologies for medical diagnostics, a special place is held by the technology of compounding plane waves with different propagation directions, which form synthesized images. In this work, based on the previously developed theory of Doppler response formation, the resolution of a system that uses plane wave compounding is investigated. In this case, small nonlinear components in the angle of inclination of the wave vectors of different plane waves were taken into account for the phase of the synthesized response and for the envelope of the radiation pulses. As a result of the study, it was found that the dimensions of the measuring volume in the longitudinal and transverse directions do not change. Taking into account small components leads to a slight change in the shape of the measuring volume, which ceases to be exactly spherical. This is explained by the fact that the resolution is determined not only by the interference of plane waves, but also by the area of their intersection at a certain point in space. The results obtained indicate that neglecting small inclination angles in the envelope is fully justified and allows simplifying the process of obtaining Doppler signal spectra in plane wave compounding technology.
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