High Frame Rate Ultrasonic Imaging System Based-on Linear Frequency-Modulated Signal

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2005:2005:1712-5. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616774.

Abstract

The high frame rate (HFR) ultrasonic imaging system, which is developed with limited diffraction beams, constructs images at a high frame rate. Because of one transmission for constructing image, the system suffers from lower signal-to-noise rate (SNR). The proposed method uses linear frequency-modulated signal (or chirp) as excited signal. For the higher time-bandwidth (TB) products available in the chirp, a compressed pulse response is obtained by passing the received signal through a related matched filter. The results show that the higher SNR of the system offered by chirp excitation gives improved image quality.