EP1350123A1 - Procede systeme et sonde pour l'obtention d'images - Google Patents
Procede systeme et sonde pour l'obtention d'imagesInfo
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- EP1350123A1 EP1350123A1 EP01980609A EP01980609A EP1350123A1 EP 1350123 A1 EP1350123 A1 EP 1350123A1 EP 01980609 A EP01980609 A EP 01980609A EP 01980609 A EP01980609 A EP 01980609A EP 1350123 A1 EP1350123 A1 EP 1350123A1
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- transducers
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S7/00—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
- G01S7/52—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S15/00
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S7/00—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
- G01S7/52—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S15/00
- G01S7/52003—Techniques for enhancing spatial resolution of targets
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S15/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of acoustic waves, e.g. sonar systems
- G01S15/88—Sonar systems specially adapted for specific applications
- G01S15/89—Sonar systems specially adapted for specific applications for mapping or imaging
- G01S15/8906—Short-range imaging systems; Acoustic microscope systems using pulse-echo techniques
- G01S15/8909—Short-range imaging systems; Acoustic microscope systems using pulse-echo techniques using a static transducer configuration
- G01S15/8915—Short-range imaging systems; Acoustic microscope systems using pulse-echo techniques using a static transducer configuration using a transducer array
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
- G01S7/00—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
- G01S7/52—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S15/00
- G01S7/52017—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S15/00 particularly adapted to short-range imaging
- G01S7/52046—Techniques for image enhancement involving transmitter or receiver
- G01S7/52047—Techniques for image enhancement involving transmitter or receiver for elimination of side lobes or of grating lobes; for increasing resolving power
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for enabling images to be obtained by means of waves emitted by an antenna, after reflection of these waves at the level of an assembly serving as a target illuminated by the waves emitted and from from which the images are extracted. It also relates to the imaging systems which implement such a method and the antenna transceivers of these systems.
- the method according to the invention is more particularly intended to be applied to allow the formation of two or three-dimensional images by means of an imaging system the main element of which is for example an ultrasound scanner, a radar or a sonar. It will be more particularly described below in the case of an ultrasound application, although it is equally applicable in the field of radar or sonar, when these work in the near field.
- acoustic emission-reception probe having an antenna provided with a large number of ultrasonic transducers aligned in one or more rows.
- 1D acoustic probes having an antenna constituted by a single alignment of transducers, this antenna has a fixed focus and only allows one dimension to be addressed in space. it insonifies.
- 1.5D probes are also known, having an antenna made up of several alignments of symmetrically controlled transducers, they make it possible to obtain a modifiable focus of the emitted beam.
- 2D probes are also known, they have an antenna consisting of coplanar transducers which are arranged in a rectangular or square array. They make it possible to vary the direction of the emission and reception beams, spatially, in two beam directions.
- FIGS. 1 to 6 A known solution to solve this problem consists in transmitting a wide beam so as to reduce the scanning time in a ratio equal to that of the number of reception channels contained in a transmission channel. But this has the consequence of decreasing the value of the ratio of main lobe to overall secondary lobes including transmission and reception.
- FIGS. 1 to 6 The first three of them respectively show the PSE ratio between a main lobe and the secondary lobes on transmission, in FIG. 1, the PSR ratio on reception which corresponds to it, when the transmission and reception lobes have the same width, in FIG. 2, as well as the overall ratio PSG corresponding to the diagram resulting from the transmission followed by reception, in FIG. 3.
- Figures 4 to 6 show these same PSE, PSR and PSG ratios, when the transmission beam is wide, as shown in Figure 4, in particular with respect to the reception beam, illustrated in Figure 5, which leads to the fact that the overall PSG report corresponds practically to the PSR report, as indicated in FIG. 6, where only a few reception channels have been represented.
- the overall PSG report directly affects image quality, an enlargement of the emission diagram therefore reduces image quality.
- the invention therefore provides for the use of a particular sequence of transmissions which makes it possible to improve the overall PSG ratio by a treatment carried out on reception and which consequently leads to good image quality.
- the invention therefore proposes a method intended to enable images to be obtained by means of waves emitted by an antenna, after reflection of these waves at the level of an assembly serving as a target illuminated by the waves emitted and from which the images are extracted.
- the antenna consists of at least one alignment of transducers transmitting-receiving waves.
- this method provides for carrying out a series of emissions of the same type by attacking the transducers by signals of identical excitation, or differing only by a weighting, which are shifted in time to generate an essentially plane wave at each emission, the delays between transducers being determined so that the equiphase surfaces obtained are in line or in a plane according to the antenna consists of an alignment of transducers or more.
- the invention also relates to the systems and antennas for transmitting and receiving waves of these systems which make it possible to obtain images by means of waves emitted by an antenna, after reflection of these waves at a level. assembly serving as a target illuminated by the transmitted waves and from which the images are extracted, said antenna comprising at least one alignment of transducers transmitting-receiving waves.
- such a system and such an antenna respectively comprise software and hardware means for the implementation of the method mentioned above.
- Figures 1, 2 and 3 respectively present diagrams illustrating an example of main lobe to secondary lobe relationship for a transmission beam, for a reception beam of the same width and for the overall transmission plus corresponding reception, according to known art .
- FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 respectively present diagrams illustrating an example of the main lobe to secondary lobe relationship for a wide beam of emission, for a beam of reception of lesser width and for the overall emission plus corresponding reception, according to art known.
- FIG. 7 presents a block diagram of an imaging system and more particularly of a known ultrasound system which is presented by way of explanatory example.
- FIG. 8 and 10 respectively present sequence diagrams for a linear antenna and for a planar antenna.
- FIG. 9 presents a diagram representing a sequence of activation pulses of the transducers of an antenna.
- Figures 1 1 and 12 respectively present diagrams illustrating the formation of channels.
- Figures 13 and 14 respectively present diagrams illustrating the delay in transmission.
- FIGS. 16 and 20 each present an illustration of the domains insonified by a sequence of plane waves.
- FIGS. 17 and 18 respectively present a diagram representing a domain covered by three sequences of different orientations and a detail relating to this diagram.
- FIG. 19 presents a time diagram relating to the activation pulses of the transducers of a linear antenna.
- the imaging system presented in FIG. 7 comprises an antenna 1 having a plurality of wave transmitter-receiver transducers which define an antenna and which are intended to allow the insonification of a defined volume of work.
- this volume of work is that in which must be located, or placed, the tissues to be ultrasound for examination and the antenna 1 is an antenna of ultrasound probe.
- the antenna 1 is then organized, in a manner which will be developed later, in order to allow exploration of target assemblies and more particularly elements of these assemblies which are located inside the tissues and which are illuminated with a determined by the transducers. These are used both to send signals to targets and to recover these signals, after reflection.
- the signals are acoustic signals from the ultrasonic range.
- the antenna 1 is here supposed to be connected to an ultrasound system 2 which comprises an emitter stage 3, where the excitation signals are produced which are sent to the transducers of the antenna 1.
- This sending takes place according to a determined sequencing and with a determined periodicity, under the impulse of a clock circuit 4, connected to this transmitter stage in a conventional manner, not shown here.
- Control means, for example of the keyboard or desk type, of a man-machine interface 5 allow a user to act, according to his needs, on various constituent elements of the ultrasound system and possibly on the antenna 1
- excitation signals are transmitted, in the form of periodic pulse trains, to the transducers of the antenna 1, from the transmitter stage 3 and via a separator stage 6 to which a receiving stage 7 is also connected.
- the excitation signals are transformed into ultrasonic pulse signals at the level of the antenna transducers 1.
- the separator stage 6 makes it possible to prevent the excitation signals from blinding the stage receiver 7.
- the reflected ultrasonic signals which are picked up by the transducers in the reception phase are taken into account by the receiver stage where they are organized so as to be grouped together by reception channels and in a determined manner as a function of the choices made available to the user, in particular for focusing purposes.
- a signal processing stage 8 makes it possible to translate the signals supplied by the receiving stage into signals which can be used by the user and for example into ultrasound images capable of being presented on a display screen 9.
- the operation of the ultrasound system is functionally governed by means of a management unit programmed in connection with the clock circuit 4, this unit may possibly be more or less confused with the processing stage 8.
- this unit may possibly be more or less confused with the processing stage 8.
- it is planned to carry out a series of transmissions of the same type by means of an antenna whose transducers, here assumed to be identical, are attacked by identical excitation signals, possibly with a weighting close, which are offset in time so that a plane wave is generated, except for diffraction.
- the delays between transducers are therefore provided such that the equiphase surfaces are in line or in a plane depending on the type of antenna, it being understood that the latter is likely to be of the 1D, 1.5D or 2D type, as known .
- the emissions can in fact be applied in one dimension, as shown diagrammatically in FIG. 8 in the case where the antenna l ′, of type 1D, consists of an alignment of N transducers 10 ′, or in two dimensions, as diagrammed in FIG. 10 for a 1 "antenna, of 2D type, constituted by a matrix of transducers 10".
- a sequence of four plane waves wl, w2, w3, and w4 is presented in FIG. 8 for an antenna l ', of type 1D, a sequence of three waves Wl, W2, W3 being presented on the Figure 10 for a 1 "2D type antenna.
- the wave is generated so as to be plane, the excitation signals of the various transducers being offset in time for this purpose, as shown in the figure 9, where individual pulses are represented corresponding to the activation signals of the transducers 1, 2, 3, ..., Nl, N of the antenna l ', these signals being here assumed to vary linearly with the distance.
- the dimension or dimensions of the antenna composed of a large number of transducers 10 ', or 10 "as the case may be, are large compared to the wavelength and range of the system is weak compared to the Fresnel distance given by the expression D 2 / ⁇ where D is the length alignment of antenna transducers.
- the wave produced in the insonified volume is then plane with a very good approximation.
- the central frequency of the signal is equal to 3MHz and where a linear antenna is used consisting of 256 10 'transducers spaced by ⁇ / 2, that is to say by 0.25 mm
- This distance is therefore very large with respect to the 200 mm which corresponds to the maximum range usually provided for an ultrasound exploration.
- the Fresnel distance obtained is 512 mm and it remains very much greater than the usual range of 200 mm which has just been mentioned.
- the introduction of an amplitude weighting makes it possible to reduce these undulations in large proportions, without significantly modifying the planar character of the wave generated.
- the emission of a plane wave by a network of transducers makes it possible to greatly reduce the time of generation of an image, since a single emission makes it possible to illuminate an area equal to the product of the range R of the system by the length of this antenna, where a traditional broadcast only lights one channel.
- the illumination by a plane wave decreases the duration of illumination, in a very important report, it involves on the other hand a reduction in the main lobe ratio with secondary lobes PSG.
- this main lobe to secondary lobe PSG ratio by implementing a particular emission diagram based on the principle of synthetic emission.
- it is planned to emit a series of plane waves whose directions are different.
- the various reception signals which are obtained relative to a target point of given geometric coordinates are summed with amplitude and phase weights dependent on this point which are such that it is possible to consider that there has been re-phasing of the waves at the point, as if these waves had been emitted simultaneously.
- the weights can be slightly different from those which lead to the reshaping, so as to optimize the quality of the final diagram.
- the equivalent of an emission diagram is thus obtained for each target point, the multiplication of the reception diagram, by the emission diagram obtained, leads to an increase in the PSG ratio.
- the reception signals can be stored either before or after the reception channels are formed. There is a certain freedom of choice with regard to the transducers of an antenna which are used in reception and they can be part or not of those which were used for the emission. The use of a reduced number of transducers on reception makes it possible to avoid increasing. exaggeratedly the angular opening, when the exploration distances are short. The constitution of several reception beams with or without overlapping is also a solution which may be advantageous in certain cases.
- R ff (t, M, F) ⁇ ⁇ e (t + - - - - - - - + K - L ) pe (x) pr (u) dxdu J ccce
- the element R ff (t, M, F) is the contribution of the reflector located in M to the received signal, when the transmission channel and the reception channel are also focused at F. This contribution corresponds to the spatial part of the ambiguity diagram . If point M is confused with F, it is verified that: which corresponds to the product of the transmission and reception weights. Illumination by a single plane wave on emission and the formation of channels with focus on reception are briefly summarized below in connection with FIG. 12.
- the antenna is generally located on any curve or surface; for the simplicity of the figure it is represented located on the x axis; each transducer emits a signal, possibly broadband, creating a plane wave, or one focused at infinity, whose wave vector is directed according to
- the signal obtained, after focusing, on reception, is written: ] 1 pr ⁇ ) d ⁇
- Illumination by a series of plane waves on emission, focusing on reception and the formation of synthetic channels on emission are defined as indicated below.
- the emission is assumed to be obtained by carrying out a sequence of N emissions of plane waves of different directions.
- the individual receptions for these N transmissions are recorded and the reception signals obtained are temporally offset so that a formation of synthetic channels is obtained on transmission.
- the reception signal of the emission of rank n results in the equation:
- the term of this equation which corresponds to the delay relative to the emission, is proportional to the distance between the wave planes passing through the points F and M as shown diagrammatically in FIG. 13.
- the delay is zero, if the line joining the points F and M is perpendicular to the vector N and therefore in a wave plane passing through F.
- the phase shift at a frequency / is proportional to the value of the expression 2 ⁇ tf (FM.V).
- the summation of signals from a reception channel formation which can be focused or not, and which correspond to emissions of plane waves of directions, different and temporally offset according to the point examined, makes it possible to carry out a channel formation on synthetic transmission improving the characteristics of the product transmission reception diagram.
- the example which follows gives an exemplary embodiment which is not limiting. If the emission consists of two waves of equal amplitude and of respective directions VI and V2 symmetrical with respect to the axis N as shown diagrammatically on the
- the reception signal is proportional to:
- an antenna for a transceiver system of an imaging system allows a synthetic emission composed of a sequence of plane waves and it relates more particularly to a probe antenna for ultrasound system.
- the antenna is intended to be used to transmit a series of plane waves whose directions are close and differ only by a small angle relative to the average angle of emission.
- the signals received by the transducers after reflection are provided combined after rephasing for each of the target points defined by its individual geometric coordinates.
- the antennas conventionally used in ultrasound, radar or sonar may be suitable, an antenna structure is proposed at a reduced cost compared to conventional antenna structures in these fields of application.
- the sequence carried out is intended to allow a specific examination space to be explored by varying the mean angle of the plane emission waves, so that the domains D1 to D4 to which they relate more or less partially overlap, as shown in Figure 16. It is possible to use transmissions with significantly different directions to constitute a synthetic emission diagram covering a given area of examination.
- Each of the successive plane waves, in each series of illuminations, has a direction close to that of the others and differs therefrom only by a small angle relative to the average angle of emission.
- the exploration of a volume under examination is obtained by varying the mean direction. This is shown diagrammatically in FIG. 17 where an antenna l 'and the domain covered by the field are presented, which are produced by three sequences of different orientations S I, S2, S3, the respective domains of which overlap partially.
- the antenna transducers l ' are assumed to be attacked by identical signals, except for the weighting.
- These signals are broadband B and of short duration, preferably of the order of a few 1 / B and typically of the order of the microsecond for a band B of 3 MHz.
- the delay time ⁇ obtained is then equal to 26.7 ns and it follows that the pulse Ijg applied to the sixteenth transducer lO'i ⁇ is produced only after the end of the pulse Ii applied to the first transducer 10 'j, as illustrated in FIG. 19.
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