Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography in Refracting Media: Reduction of Refraction Artifacts by Curved-Ray Techniques

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 173-188

  Denis, F ^a   Basset, O ^a   Gimenez, G ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Traitement du Signal et Ultrasons ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CURVED RAY TECHNIQUES; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RAY TRACING; REFRACTING MEDIA; REFRACTION ARTIFACTS; SOFT TISSUE IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0029270834     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.370414     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. J. F. Greenleaf and R. C. Bahn, “Clinical imaging with transmissive ultrasonic computerized tomography,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. BME-28, no. 2, pp. 177–185, 1981.
2. J. Radon, “Über die bestimmung von funktionnen durch ihre integralwerte längs gewisser mannigfaltigkeiten,” Ber. Verb. Saechs. Akad. Wiss., Leipzig, vol. 69, pp. 262–277, 1917.
3. S. A. Johnson, J. F. Greenleaf, W. F. Samayoa, F. A. Duck, and J. Sjostrand, “Reconstruction of three-dimensional velocity fields and other parameters by acoustic ray tracing,” in IEEE Proc. Ultrason. Sympos., pp. 46–51, 1975.
4. S. A. Johnson, J. F. Greenleaf, M. Tanaka, and G. Flandro, “Reconstructing three-dimensional temperature and fluid velocity vector fields from acoustic transmission measurements,” ISA Trans., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 3–15, 1977.
5. H. Schomberg, “Nonlinear image reconstruction from projections of ultrasonic travel times and electric current densities,” in Mathematical Aspects of Computerized Tomography, G. T. Herman and F. Natterer, Eds. New York: Springer, 1981, pp. 270–291.
6. R. H. T. Bates and G. C. McKinnon, “Toward improving images in ultrasonic transmission tomography,” Australian Phys. Sci. in Med., vol. 2-3, pp. 134–140, 1979.
7. S. J. Norton and M. Linzer, “Correction for ray refraction in velocity and attenuation tomography: A perturbation approach,” Ultrason. Imag., vol. 4, pp. 201–233, 1982.
8. J. F. Greenleaf, S. A. Johnson, S. L. Lee, G. T. Herman, and E. H. Wood, “Algebraic reconstruction of spatial distributions of acoustic absorption within tissue from their two-dimensional acoustic projections,” in Acoustical Holography,, vol. 5, P. S. Green, Ed. New York: Plenum Press, 1974, pp. 591–603.
9. J. F. Greenleaf and R. C. Bahn, “Signal processing methods for transmission ultrasonic tomography,” in Proc. 1980 Ultrason. Sympos. Proc., pp. 966–972, 1980.
10. J. F. Greenleaf, J. J. Gisvold, and R. C. Bahn, “A clinical prototype ultrasonic transmission tomographic scanner,” Acoust. Imag., vol. 12, pp. 579–587, 1982.
11. H. Schomberg, W. Beil, G. C. McKinnon, R. Proska, and O. Tschendel, “Tomographie à ultrasons assistée par ordinateur,” Acta Electronika, vol. 26, no. 1–2, pp. 121–128, 1984.
12. P. L. Carson, C. R. Meyer, A. L. Scherzinger, and T. V. Oughton, “Breast imaging in coronal planes with simultaneous pulse echo and transmission ultrasound,” Science, vol. 214, pp. 1141–1143, 1981.
13. T. L. Chenevert, D. I. Bilski, P. L. Carson, C. R. Meyer, P. H. Bland, D. D. Adler, and R. M. Scmitt, “Ultrasonic computed tomography of the breast,” Radiology, vol. 152, no. 1, pp. 155–159, 1984.
14. J. Jossinet, J. Y. Chapelon, and M. Schmitt, “Description and application of a time-of-flight CT scanner,” in Conf. Proc. World Congr. Med. Phys. Biomed. Eng., Hamburg, p. 23. 22, 1982.
15. F. Denis, J. Jossinet, and G. Gimenez, “Tomographie acoustique: États, applications et perpectives,” Rev. d'Acoustique, no. 79, pp. 21–25, 1986.
16. A. H. Anderson and A. C. Kak, “Digital ray tracing in two-dimensional refractive fields,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 1593–1606, 1982.
17. G. E. J. Bold and T. G. Birdsall, “A top-down philosophy for accurate numerical ray tracing,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 656–660, 1986.
18. A. M. Smith, M. Goldberg, and E. S. K. Liu, “Numerical ray tracing in media involving continuous and discrete refractive index boundaries,” Ultrason. Imag., vol. 2, pp. 291–301, 1980.
19. C. V. Jakowatz and A. C. Kak, “Computerized tomographic imaging using X-rays and ultrasound,” School of Elec. Eng., Purdue University, Res. Rep. TR-EE 76-26, July 1976.
20. E. J. Farrell, “Tomographic imaging of attenuation with simulation correction for refraction,” Ultrason. Imag., vol. 3, pp. 144–163, 1981.
21. H. Schomberg, “An improved approach to reconstructive ultrasound tomogaphy,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol. 11, pp. L181-L186, 1978.
22. A. M. Cormak, “Representation of a function by its line integrals, with some radiological applications,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 2722-2727, 1963.
23. M. H. Buoconore, W. R. Brody, and A. Macovski, “A natural pixel decomposition for two-dimensional image reconstruction,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. BME-28, no. 2, pp. 69–78, 1981.
24. K. M. Hanson and G. W. Wecksung, “Local basis function approach to computed tomography,” Appl. Optics, vol. 24, no. 23, pp. 4028–4039, 1985.
25. A. H. Andersen and A. C. Kak, “Simultaneous algebraïc reconstruction technique (SART): A superior implementation of the ART algorithm,” Ultrason. Imag., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 81–94, 1984.
26. R. J. Lytle and K. A. Dines, “Iterative ray-tracing between boreholes for underground image reconstruction,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. GE-18, no. 3, pp. 234–240, 1980.
27. R. Gordon, R. Bender, and G. T. Herman, “Algebraïc reconstruction technique (ART) for three-dimensional electron microscopy and X-ray photography,” J. Theor. Biol., vol. 29, pp. 471–481, 1970.
28. R. Gordon, “A tutorial on ART,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. NS-21, pp. 78–93, 1974.
29. P. Gilbert, “Iterative methods for three-dimensional reconstruction of an object from projections,” J. Theor. Biol., vol. 36, pp. 105–117, 1972.
30. M. Goitein, “Three-dimensional density reconstruction from a series of two-dimensional projections,” Nucl. Instrum. Math., vol. 101, pp. 509–518, 1971.
31. G. Gimenez, F. Denis, and O. Basset, “Experimental selection of a transmitting source for a three-dimensional tomograph devoted to time-of-flight measurements,” Ultrason., vol. 28, pp. 105–114, 1990.