Imaging Acoustic Sources Through Scattering Media by Using a Correlation Full-matrix Filter

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2018 Oct 25

PMID 30353141

Authors

Wei Rui

Chao Tao

Xiaojun Liu

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Abstract

In the inhomogeneous medium, acoustic scattering is always a fundamental challenge for photoacoustic imaging. We implement a correlation full-matrix filter (CFMF) combing with a time reversal operator to improve the imaging quality of acoustic sources in complex media. The correlation full-matrix filtering process extracts the direct wave component from the detected signal and preserve all the useful information at the same time. A location factor is considered in the time reversal operator to compensate for the image distortion and false contrast caused by the limited-view detection. The numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed approach can perform good imaging quality with the higher image signal-noise ratio and better resolution in an acoustic scattering environment. This scheme might be applied to improve the photoacoustic imaging for inhomogeneous biological tissues.

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