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  • Title

  • Contents

  • Preface

  • Abstract

  • Acknowledgements

  • Nomenclature

  • List of Figures

  • List of Tables

  • 0 Introduction

    • 0.1 Potential advantages of coded excitation

    • 0.2 Literature Review

    • 0.3 Thesis structure

  • 1 Modulated signals

    • 1.1 Introduction

    • 1.2 Signal basics

    • 1.3 Complex notation of narrowband signals

    • 1.4 Correlation integrals

    • 1.5 Waveform parameters and the uncertainty principle

    • 1.6 The time-bandwidth product (TB)

  • 2 Pulse compression and the ambiguity function

    • 2.1 Filtering using complex notation

    • 2.2 The matched filter

    • 2.3 Generalized matched filter

    • 2.4 Matched filter receiver in ultrasound imaging

    • 2.5 The ambiguity function and its properties

    • 2.6 Classification of pulse compression waveforms

    • 2.7 Resolution in a matched filter receiver

    • 2.8 Mismatched filtering

    • 2.9 Optimal filtering in speckle

    • 2.10 Appropriate compression waveforms and filters for ultrasound imaging

  • 3 The linear FM signal and other FM waveforms

    • 3.1 The linear FM signal

    • 3.2 Spectrum of the linear FM signal

    • 3.3 Symmetry properties and their implications

    • 3.4 The matched filter response and the ridge ambiguity

    • 3.5 Mismatched filtering

    • 3.6 Gain in signal to noise ratio

    • 3.7 Non-linear FM modulation

  • 4 Weighting of FM signals and sidelobe reduction for ultrasound imaging

    • 4.1 Weighting in time and frequency domain

    • 4.2 Weighting functions and tapering

    • 4.3 The effect of the ultrasonic transducer on pulse compression

    • 4.4 Fresnel ripples and paired-echoes sidelobes

    • 4.5 Amplitude and phase predistortion

    • 4.6 Proposed excitation/compression scheme

  • 5 Phase-modulated signals

    • 5.1 Phase modulation

    • 5.2 Binary sequences

    • 5.3 Polyphase codes

    • 5.4 Hadamard matrices

    • 5.5 Sidelobe reduction for phase-encoded sequences

    • 5.6 Disadvantages of phase-coding for ultrasound imaging

  • 6 Ultrasound imaging with coded excitation- Simulation results

    • 6.1 Intensity considerations

    • 6.2 Expected signal-to-noise ratio improvement

    • 6.3 Imaging with linear FM signals- Simulation results using Field II

    • 6.4 Imaging with non-linear FM signals

    • 6.5 Imaging with complementary codes

    • 6.6 Evaluation of resolution and compression

    • 6.7 Pulse compression and array imaging

  • 7 Clinical evaluation of coded imaging

    • 7.1 Experimental setup

    • 7.2 Phantom images with coded excitation

    • 7.3 Clinical images with coded excitation

  • 8 Waveform diversity for fast ultrasound imaging

    • 8.1 Waveform diversity for the FM signal

    • 8.2 Frequency division

    • 8.3 Cross-correlation (CC) of binary codes

  • 9 Fast coded array imaging

    • 9.1 Linear array coded imaging

    • 9.2 Other firing and coding strategies

    • 9.3 Synthetic transmit aperture (STA) imaging

    • 9.4 Literature review on SNR improvement methods in STA imaging

    • 9.5 Proposed STA coded imaging using Hadamard and FM space-time encoding

    • 9.6 STA imaging with double frame rate using orthogonal FM signals

    • 9.7 Evaluation of SNR in coded STA imaging

  • 10 Fast ultrasound imaging using pulse trains

    • 10.1 Pulse trains

    • 10.2 Ambiguity function of pulse trains

    • 10.3 FSK modulation and Costas arrays

    • 10.4 The linear FM pulse train (QLFM-FSK)

    • 10.5 Fast imaging with pulse trains

    • 10.6 A New Coding Concept

    • 10.7 Coherent processing of pulse trains

    • 10.8 Simulated images using pulse train excitation

    • 10.9 Possible alternative imaging strategies

  • 11 Conclusions

  • A Relevant publications

    • A.1 Potential of coded excitation in medical ultrasound imaging

    • A.2 An effective coded excitation scheme based on a predistorted FM signal and an optimized digital filter

    • A.3 Clinical use and evaluation of coded excitation in B-mode images

    • A.4 Space-Time Encoding for High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging

  • Bibliography

  • Index

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