Self-Portrait of the Focusing Process in Speckle: II. Gouy Phase Shift for Defocus Correction and Pixel Depth Reassignment

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Autori principali: Bureau, Flavien, Brenner, Emma, Martiartu, Naiara Korta, Giraudat, Elsa, Ber, Arthur Le, Lambert, William, Carmier, Louis, Guibal, Aymeric, Fink, Mathias, Aubry, Alexandre
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author Bureau, Flavien
Brenner, Emma
Martiartu, Naiara Korta
Giraudat, Elsa
Ber, Arthur Le
Lambert, William
Carmier, Louis
Guibal, Aymeric
Fink, Mathias
Aubry, Alexandre
author_facet Bureau, Flavien
Brenner, Emma
Martiartu, Naiara Korta
Giraudat, Elsa
Ber, Arthur Le
Lambert, William
Carmier, Louis
Guibal, Aymeric
Fink, Mathias
Aubry, Alexandre
contents This is the second article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for aberration correction and reverberation compensation in reflection imaging. When probing heterogeneous media with waves, we have to cope with multi-scale fluctuations of the wave velocity. On the one hand, short-scale heterogeneities induce back-scattered echoes whose random interference generate a speckle pattern on the beamformed image. On the other hand, large-scale fluctuations of the wave-velocity can distort the focused wave-fronts, resulting in aberrations on the same image. In this paper, we show how the self-portrait of the wave evolves as a function of the speed-of-sound model. Strikingly, a Gouy phase shift is observed when the speed-of-sound model is optimal. This particularly sensitive feature enables: (i) an optimization of the speed-of-sound model for each pixel of the image; (ii) a local and fine compensation of defocus across the field-of-view, thereby compensating for most aberrations in the image. Experiment in a tissue-mimicking phantom and numerical simulations are first presented to validate our method. It is then applied to in-vivo liver data of a difficult-to-image patient. The speed-of-sound optimization allows an axial compensation of aberrations and a depth-reassignment of each singly-scattered echo to the actual position of the associated scatterer. As distance measurement is often critical for diagnosis, such a wave speed optimization can be crucial for ultrasound but also for any other imaging methods based on the principle of echo-location.
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spellingShingle Self-Portrait of the Focusing Process in Speckle: II. Gouy Phase Shift for Defocus Correction and Pixel Depth Reassignment
Bureau, Flavien
Brenner, Emma
Martiartu, Naiara Korta
Giraudat, Elsa
Ber, Arthur Le
Lambert, William
Carmier, Louis
Guibal, Aymeric
Fink, Mathias
Aubry, Alexandre
Medical Physics
Image and Video Processing
Applied Physics
This is the second article in a series of three dealing with the exploitation of speckle for aberration correction and reverberation compensation in reflection imaging. When probing heterogeneous media with waves, we have to cope with multi-scale fluctuations of the wave velocity. On the one hand, short-scale heterogeneities induce back-scattered echoes whose random interference generate a speckle pattern on the beamformed image. On the other hand, large-scale fluctuations of the wave-velocity can distort the focused wave-fronts, resulting in aberrations on the same image. In this paper, we show how the self-portrait of the wave evolves as a function of the speed-of-sound model. Strikingly, a Gouy phase shift is observed when the speed-of-sound model is optimal. This particularly sensitive feature enables: (i) an optimization of the speed-of-sound model for each pixel of the image; (ii) a local and fine compensation of defocus across the field-of-view, thereby compensating for most aberrations in the image. Experiment in a tissue-mimicking phantom and numerical simulations are first presented to validate our method. It is then applied to in-vivo liver data of a difficult-to-image patient. The speed-of-sound optimization allows an axial compensation of aberrations and a depth-reassignment of each singly-scattered echo to the actual position of the associated scatterer. As distance measurement is often critical for diagnosis, such a wave speed optimization can be crucial for ultrasound but also for any other imaging methods based on the principle of echo-location.
title Self-Portrait of the Focusing Process in Speckle: II. Gouy Phase Shift for Defocus Correction and Pixel Depth Reassignment
topic Medical Physics
Image and Video Processing
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13901