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Principles of UltrasoundImaging
Image Optimization
Robert A. Levine, MD, FACE, ECNUThyroid Center of New Hampshire
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Disclosures: No relevant financial or corporate conflicts of interest. The use of investigational drugs will not be discussed
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Image OptimizationCreate the sharpest image to allow tissue discrimination.
• Equipment factors:• Quality of Transducer• Quality of Electronics• Image Enhancement and Compound Imaging
• User Adjustments:• Depth, Gain, Frequency• Focal zones – Number and Location• Compound Imaging• Tissue Harmonic Imaging• Dynamic range
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Optimal Depth
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Image Optimization
• Gain• Overall Gain• Time Gain Compensation
• Multiple channels corresponding to depth• User adjustable to achieve best image quality at region of
interest
• Focal Zone(s)• Adjustable depth and number• Greater number of zones slows refresh rate
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Optimal Gain
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Optimal Time Gain Compensation
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Resolution
• Resolution is the ability to discriminate two structures as separate entities
• Types of resolution :Axial (distance from the transducer)Lateral (transverse)Azimuthal (thickness of imaging plane)
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Resolution
LATERAL(side to side)
AXIAL(distance from transducer)AZIMUTHAL
(up-down)
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Resolution• Ability to discriminate two adjacent objects as
separate entities.• The narrower the beam, the better the lateral
resolution. The higher the frequency the better the axial resolution.
Poor focus
Good focus
Image
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Focus and Resolution• Focused beam width determines Lateral and Azimuthal
Resolution
• Pulse duration (frequency) determines Axial Resolution• (axial resolution = 1/2 spatial pulse length)
• Practical Consideration - As frequency increases, axial resolution improves, but depth of imaging decreases.• The number and depth of the focal zones are often
adjustable and indicated on the display
Near field (Fresnel Zone) Large variations of intensity
Far field (Fraunhofer Zone) Greater variation with greater distance.Focal Zone - Area of maximal narrowing
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Adjustment of number and position of focal zones
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Adjustment of number and position of focal zones
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Single focal zone
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Four focal zones
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Frequency and Resolution
Higher frequency gives better resolution.Higher frequency gives less penetration.Need to find best compromise for depth of interest
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Image Optimization - Frequency
• Choose highest frequency (12-15 MHz) that allows adequate depth penetration.
• Lower frequencies (7-10 MHz) for deep structures or very obese subjects
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Frequency and depth
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Advances in Technology Signal Processing
• Image Enhancement• Noise reduction• Edge sharpening
• Utilization of CT and MRI reconstruction algorithms• Beam Steering• Spatial compounding
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Image Optimization- Compounding
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Signal Processing – Compunding
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Comparison of standard and processed images
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Effect of Compound Imaging on Artifacts
Comet Tails
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Effect of Compound imaging on Artifacts
Edge Artifact and Enhancement
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Effect of Compound Imaging on Spongiform Nodule
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Tissue Harmonic Imaging
At higher power tissue will reverberate and produce harmonics of the original frequency.Selective detection of the second harmonic.
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Tissue Harmonic Imaging• Different tissues will have varying degrees
of harmonic generation• Selective detection of harmonic
• Higher frequency: Improved resolution• Less distance: Less noise• Increased contrast
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Tissue Harmonic Imaging
• Increased conspicuity• Improved signal to noise for deeper structures
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Image Optimization – Dynamic range
• May increase conspicuity of subtle lesions
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Doppler Shift
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Color and Power Doppler
Meritt, 1998
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Color and Power Doppler
Meritt, 1998
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Color and Power Doppler
• Color Doppler• Provides information
regarding direction and velocity.
• More useful in vascular studies
• Power Doppler• No information
regarding velocity• Less angle
dependence• Less noise• Increased sensitivity
for detection of flow
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Doppler – Lymph nodes
In normal nodes vessels enter centrally at the hilus, and spread along the long axis.In malignant nodes aberrant vessels enter peripherally in the node capsule. Increased (disordered) vascularity may be seen peripherally and centrally.
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Doppler of Nodes• Demonstration of Chaotic or peripheral
vascularity in malignant nodes• Can be seen in reactive nodes
• Normal vascularity is reassuring• Power Doppler for high sensitivity• Use low wall filter• Use a low PRF < 800
• Low wall filter and low PRF both increase the sensitivity for detection of low flow.
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Achieving the highest sensitivity with Doppler imaging.
High Doppler sensitivity needed for lymph nodes.
• Power Doppler• Maximum Doppler gain without noise.• Low Pulse Repetition Frequency
• PRF < 800• Low wall filter.
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PRF 1400 700
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PRF 700 – Wall filter varies
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Image Optimization Summary and Conclusions
• High quality equipment is preferable, BUT a great ultrasonographer using low quality equipment will obtain better images than a lousy ultrasonographer with great equipment.
• “I need to find out what type of piano Mozart played so I can sound like him.”
• User adjustments of gain, depth, frequency, focal zones, dynamic range, spatial compounding, pulse repetition frequency, and wall filter will give the optimal image quality.