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Observing the heartbeat, detecting the thyroid gland or measuring the flow rate of blood in the veins – ultrasound allows a look inside the body. In our workshop “Deep Insights” you can practically experience the technical aspects of ultrasound imaging.

The MINTsight.BOchum takes place in cooperation with the zdi network IST.Bochum. It offers workshops and discussion groups and is aimed at all students who are interested in the various fields of engineering.

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Our article presents a new processing method to achieve high quality clinical harmonic ultrasound images which faster acquisition schemes.

Harmonic Imaging is the current standard imaging modality for many clinical applications of ultrasound imaging. The nonlinear sound propagation in tissues generates harmonic frequencies of the originally transmitted sound pulse. This allows to record images with better spatial resolution and higher contrast. However, a sequence of several acquisitions is needed to generate a harmonic image. This lowers the framerate and makes images sensitive to patient motion.

In our article we demonstrate that the DeepH deep neural network can process one acquisition of an ultrasound image to generate a harmonic image from it. The image detail is comparable to the ground truth harmonic image. Additionally, noise is suppressed and the framerate is increased.

Find the full article on DeepH for fast harmonic imaging published at DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2023.3234230

Fouad, M., Abd-El-Ghany, M., Schmitz G.: “A Single-Shot Harmonic Imaging Approach Utilizing Deep Learning for Medical Ultrasound”

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At the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2022, for the first time a competition for novel high-resolution ultrasound methods of ultrasound localization microscopy was organized. Ultrasound localization microscopy was first published simultaneously by us and Michael Tanter’s group from Paris in 2011. In this method, gas-filled microbubbles, which are injected as commercial ultrasound contrast agents, are localized and tracked in the vasculature of the body with high accuracy. In this way, images of the microvessels are obtained that are well below the conventional resolution limit of ultrasound imaging of half a wavelength. The algorithms are under continuous improvements and are used in initial clinical studies as part of two DFG projects on breast cancer diagnostics and on imaging the microvessels of the kidney in cooperation with the Group of Fabian Kiessling at the University Hospital of RWTH Aachen.

The Ultra-SR served to verify the accuracy of the algorithms for localizing and tracking microbubbles using video sequences with test data sets.

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