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Laser-based ultrasound inspection system

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Janez Rus

A laser-based ultrasound inspection system comprising an object for inspection (1), a laser device for ultrasound generation (3a), a laser device for ultrasound detection (3b), and a coating arrangement (4) including a laser absorbing layer (4a) disposed o ...

2024

A Wearable Ultrasound Interface for Prosthetic Hand Control

Xingchen Yang

Ultrasound can non-invasively detect muscle deformations and has great potential applications in prosthetic hand control. Traditional ultrasound equipment was usually too bulky to be applied in wearable scenarios. This research presented a compact ultrasou ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Wearable Ultrasound Interface for Prosthetic Hand Manipulation

Xingchen Yang

Ultrasound can non-invasively detect muscle deformations, which has great potential applications in prosthetic hand control. This research developed a miniaturized ultrasound device that could be integrated into a prosthetic hand socket. This compact syste ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Point-of-care ultrasound for tuberculosis management in Sub-Saharan Africa-a balanced SWOT analysis

Mary-Anne Hartley

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an increasingly accessible skill, allowing for the decentralization of its use to nonspecialist healthcare workers to guide routine clinical decision-making. The advent of ultrasound-on-a-chip has transformed the technol ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Sonomyographic Prosthetic Interacion: Online Simultaneous and Proportional Control of Wrist and Hand Motions Using Semisupervised Learning

Xingchen Yang

Human hands play a very important role in daily object manipulation. Current prosthetic hands are capable of mimicking most functions of the human hand, but how to interact with prosthetic hands based on human intentions remains an open problem. In this ar ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

MorphoSONIC: A morphologically structured intramembrane cavitation model reveals fiber-specific neuromodulation by ultrasound

Silvestro Micera, Esra Neufeld, Théo Lemaire, Elena Vicari

Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Stimulation (LIFUS) holds promise for the remote modulation of neural activity, but an incomplete mechanistic characterization hinders its clinical maturation. Here we developed a computational framework to model intramembr ...

CELL PRESS2021

Toward Robust Sensing for Autonomous Vehicles: An Adversarial Perspective

Pascal Frossard, Andrea Cavallaro, Apostolos Modas

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate and robust sensor observations for safety-critical decision making in a variety of conditions. The fundamental building blocks of such systems are sensors and classifiers that process ultrasound, radar, GPS, lidar ...

2020

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Quantification: From Kinetic Modeling To Machine Learning

Marcel Arditi

Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) have opened up immense diagnostic possibilities by combined use of indicator dilution principles and dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (DCE-US) imaging. UCAs are microbubbles encapsulated in a biocompatible shell. With ...

2020

Time-Resolved NIROT 'Pioneer' System for Imaging Oxygenation of the Preterm Brain: Preliminary Results

Matthias Wolf, Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Chunmin Zhang

In preterm infants, there is a risk of long-term cognitive, motor and behavioral impairments due to hemorrhagic and/or ischemic lesions. If detected early, lesions can be prevented. A bedside imaging modality, capable of early detection of both disorders, ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Computational Analysis of Turbulent Hemodynamics in Radiocephalic Arteriovenous Fistulas to Determine the Best Anastomotic Angles

Alfio Quarteroni, Christian Vergara

Background: Hemodynamics has been known to play a major role in the development of intimal hyperplasia leading to arteriovenous fistula failure. The goal of our study is to investigate the influence of different angles of side-to-end radiocephalic anastomo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2020

On Problem Formulation, Efficient Modeling and Deep Neural Networks for High-Quality Ultrasound Imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Marcel Arditi, Adrien Georges Jean Besson, Dimitris Perdios, Florian Martinez, Manuel Vonlanthen

Recently, many pulse-echo ultrasound (US) imaging methods have relied on the transmission of unfocused wavefronts. Such a strategy allows for very high frame rates at the cost of a degraded image quality. In this work, we present a regularized inverse prob ...

IEEE2019

Beamforming-deconvolution: A novel concept of deconvolution for ultrasound imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Yves Wiaux, Adrien Georges Jean Besson

In ultrasound (US) imaging, beamforming is usually separated from the deconvolution or some other post-processing techniques. The former processes raw data to build radio-frequency (RF) images while the latter restore high-resolution images, denoted as tis ...

2017

Efficient Sample Delay Calculation for 2-D and 3-D Ultrasound Imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Marcel Arditi, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

Ultrasound imaging is a reference medical diagnostic technique, thanks to its blend of versatility, effectiveness, and moderate cost. The core computation of all ultrasound imaging methods is based on simple formulae, except for those required to calculate ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Demo: Efficient Delay and Apodization for on-FPGA 3D Ultrasound

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Marcel Arditi, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler

In medical diagnosis, ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most common, safe, and powerful techniques. Volumetric (3D) US is potentially very attractive, compared to 2D US, because it might enable telesonography - decoupling the local image acquisition, b ...

2016

Single-FPGA 3D Ultrasound Beamformer

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Marcel Arditi, Federico Angiolini, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler

In medical diagnosis, ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most common, safe, and powerful techniques. Volumetric (3D) US imaging, an emerging technique, is even more attractive than standard 2D imaging, as it allows for imaging without the local presence ...

Ieee2016

Synergistic Coupling Between Electrochemical and Ultrasound Treatments for Organic Pollutant Degradation as a Function of the Electrode Material (IrO2 and BDD) and the Ultrasonic frequency (20 and 800 kHz)

César Pulgarin

Solutions of the organic pollutant model, Crystal Violet (CV), were subjected to ultrasonic, electrochemical treatment and its combination. Ultrasound was tested at two frequencies (20 kHz or 800 kHz) and 80 W in deionized water. After 120 min, 20 kHz cond ...

Esg2016

Coupling between high-frequency ultrasound and solar photo-Fenton at pilot scale for the treatment of organic contaminants: An initial approach

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Papoutsakis

This study aims to evaluate the performance of a novel pilot-scale coupled system consisting of a high frequency ultrasonic reactor (400 kHz) and a compound parabolic collector (CPC). The benefits of the concurrent application of ultrasound and the photo-F ...

Elsevier2015

Performance Comparison of Ultrasound-Based Methods to Assess Aortic Diameter and Stiffness in Normal and Aneurysmal Mice

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Bram Trachet

Objective Several ultrasound-based methods are currently used to assess aortic diameter, circumferential strain and stiffness in mice, but none of them is flawless and a gold standard is lacking. We aimed to assess the validity and sensitivity of these met ...

Public Library Science2015

Semi-Supervised Segmentation of Ultrasound Images Based on Patch Representation and Continuous Min Cut

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Xavier Bresson, Olivier Cuisenaire, Nawal Houhou, Anca-Ramona Ciurte

Ultrasound segmentation is a challenging problem due to the inherent speckle and some artifacts like shadows, attenuation and signal dropout. Existing methods need to include strong priors like shape priors or analytical intensity models to succeed in the ...

Public Library Science2014

Investigating the acoustic release of doxorubicin from targeted micelles

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

The main problem associated with the administration of anti-cancer medication is that the drug is delivered throughout the body causing undesirable side effects. Therefore, it is important to synthesize drug carriers capable of minimizing the adverse side ...

Elsevier2013