Title
Total attenuation compensation for backscatter coefficient estimation using full angular spatial compounding in physical phantoms
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Abstract
The backscatter coefficient (BSC) quantifies the frequency-dependent reflectivity of tissues. Accurate estimation of the BSC requires knowledge of the attenuation coefficient slope (ACS) of tissues in the beam path between the transducer and the insonified region of interest, namely, the total attenuation. In this study, the total attenuation is calculated as the cumulative sum of values of a local attenuation map devised using full angular spatial compounding (FASC). The BSC was parameterized through the integrated backscatter coefficient (iBSC) obtaining iBSC maps. Experimental validation of the proposed approach consisted of scanning two cylindrical physical phantoms with off-centered inclusions having different ACS and BSC values than the background. Additional iBSC maps were computed assuming an uniform ACS map of 0.5 dB/cm/MHz (which is a value assumed for soft tissues) instead of the FASC-ACS map. Finally a iBSC map was obtained using an ideal ACS map formed with ground truth ACS values and knowledge of inclusion true position. The results were comparable when using the FASC-ACS map or the ideal ACS map in term of inclusion detectability and estimation accuracy. The use of the uniform ACS map resulted in some cases with very high fractional error (>9 dB), which highlights the relevance of accurate compensation for total attenuation. These results suggest that BSCs can be reliably estimated using total attenuation compensation from FASC-ACS maps.
Volume
11602
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oftalmología Otras ciencias médicas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85103458626
ISBN
9781510640337
Source
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Resource of which it is part
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
ISSN of the container
16057422
ISBN of the container
978-151064033-7
Sponsor(s)
National Fund for Scientific, Technological Development and Technological Innovation 08-2013-FONDECYT, 132-2016
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