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Inverse Problems With Multiple Plane Waves: The Angular Simplification

In unfocused ultrasound imaging, a delay-and-sum algorithm is commonly used to reconstruct one image per emission. When multiple emissions are performed, individual images can be combined by coherent compounding to improve image quality. Alternative method ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

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

Inverse Problems in Pulse-Echo Ultrasound: Exploiting Coherence for Image Enhancement and Quantitative Imaging

Samuel Denys Beuret

Whereas pulse-echo ultrasound imaging relied on focused acoustic waves since its inception, the last two decades have seen the development of techniques based on unfocused waves, including ultrafast ultrasound imaging. In large part due to the emergence of ...

EPFL2024

Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Yegor Piskarev, Yi Sun

In minimally invasive surgery, such as cardiac ablation, magnetically steered catheters made of variable-stiffness materials can enable higher dexterity and higher force application to human tissue. However, the long transition time between soft and rigid ...

2024

Prognostic impact of deep learning-based quantification in clinical stage 0-I lung adenocarcinoma

Li Zhang, Jiancheng Yang

Objectives To evaluate the performance of automatic deep learning (DL) algorithm for size, mass, and volume measurements in predicting prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and compared with manual measurements. ...

SPRINGER2023

Broadband Air-Coupled Ultrasound Emitter and Receiver Enable Simultaneous Measurement of Thickness and Speed of Sound in Solids

Janez Rus

Air-coupled ultrasound sensors have advantages over contact ultrasound sensors when a sample should not become contaminated or influenced by the couplant or the measurement has to be a fast and automated inline process. Thereby, air-coupled transducers mus ...

MDPI2023

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

Correction of Human Forehead Temperature Variations Measured by Non-Contact Infrared Thermometer

Adrian Shajkofci

Elevated body temperature (fever) can be a common symptom of a medical condition, such as a viral or bacterial infection, including SARS-CoV-2 or influenza. Non-contact infrared thermometers are able to measure forehead temperature in a timely manner and w ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters

Yujia Yang, Alberto Nardi

Recent advancements in nanofabrication have enabled the creation of vacuum electronic devices with nanoscale free-space gaps. These nanoelectronic devices promise the benefits of cold-field emission and transport through free space, such as high nonlineari ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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

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

Temperature dependence of reconfigurable bandstop filters using vanadium dioxide switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

In this Letter, we report and investigate the temperature dependency of various radio frequency (RF) parameters for a fabricated reconfigurable bandstop filter with vanadium dioxide (VO2) switches measured up to 55 GHz. Here, the insulator-to-metal (ITM) a ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

2.5 Hz sample rate time-domain near-infrared optical tomography based on SPAD-camera image tissue hemodynamics

Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner

Tim-domain near-infrared optical tomography (TD NIROT) techniques based on diffuse light were gaining performance over the last years. They are capable of imaging tissue at several centimeters depth and reveal clinically relevant information, such as tissu ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2022

Characterization and Modeling of Mismatch in Cryo-CMOS

Edoardo Charbon

This paper presents a device matching study of a commercial 40-nm bulk CMOS technology operated at cryogenic temperatures. Transistor pairs and linear arrays, optimized for device matching, were characterized over the temperature range from 300 K down to 4 ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

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

Methods and apparatus for tomographic additive manufacturing with a spatially coherent light source

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Paul Delrot

A method of fabricating a three-dimensional article comprises providing a spatially coherent light source (101, 201), generating from said light source (101, 201), patterns of light based on computed tomographic projections of said three-dimensional articl ...

2020

A Variable Stiffness Magnetic Catheter Made of a Conductive Phase-Change Polymer for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Yegor Piskarev

Variable stiffness (VS) is an important feature that significantly enhances the dexterity of magnetic catheters used in minimally invasive surgeries. Existing magnetic catheters with VS consist of sensors, heaters, and tubular structures filled with low me ...

2022

Model-based image reconstruction method

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Marcel Arditi, Adrien Georges Jean Besson, Dimitris Perdios

The present invention concerns a pulse wave image reconstruction method to be used for example in ultrasound imaging. The proposed method is based on an image measurement model and its adjoint operator. The proposed method introduces matrix-free formulatio ...

2019

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

Imaging from Echoes: On Inverse Problems in Ultrasound

Adrien Georges Jean Besson

Ultrasound (US) imaging is currently living a revolution. On the one hand, ultrafast US imaging, a novel way of acquiring and producing US images, has paved the way to several advanced imaging modes, e.g. shear-wave elastography, ultrafast Doppler imaging ...

EPFL2018