On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 2:13:57 PM UTC-4, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> > 
> > I hope this is the right group since I'm interested in the signal
> > processing aspect mote than the physics itself. I'm trying to look
> > for good references (either books or papers) that go over some
> > ultrasound imaging and beamforming algorithms. 
> 
> I'm not deep into the topic, but why not start with a selection of 
> current papers describing SAFT algorithms? At least that's how I'd go 
> about it. Putting "SAFT algorithm" into Google results in a number of 
> interesting papers.
> 
> 	Christian

Yeah, that's how I started. I saw a lot of work by this guy Jensen on the topic of synthetic aperture for ultrasound. Also, PhD theses seem to be useful when describing things a bit more in depth.

I was just curious if there was a solid book on the topics given that beamforming and focusing seem to be pretty standard techniques in radar and other medical imaging modalities like xray tomography seem to have very good books on the image reconstruction topic.

Am 11.05.17 um 18:25 schrieb f.quivira@gmail.com:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I hope this is the right group since I'm interested in the signal
> processing aspect mote than the physics itself. I'm trying to look
> for good references (either books or papers) that go over some
> ultrasound imaging and beamforming algorithms. 

I'm not deep into the topic, but why not start with a selection of 
current papers describing SAFT algorithms? At least that's how I'd go 
about it. Putting "SAFT algorithm" into Google results in a number of 
interesting papers.

	Christian

Hi everyone

I hope this is the right group since I'm interested in the signal processing aspect mote than the physics itself. I'm trying to look for good references (either books or papers) that go over some ultrasound imaging and beamforming algorithms. Basically, things like delay and sum, dynamic focusing, adaptive beamforming, etc. Hopefully, it would also include ultrasound imaging as an inverse problem with the linear algebra and optimization formulations if possible or the probabilistic interpreation of the techniques. 

I've looked at books like Prince and Links Medical Imaging but its overview of ultrasound is too general. Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging by Thomas Szabo has some of what I want but focuses too much on the physics. I wonder if there is a book like the Detection and Estimation by Steven Kay but for ultrasound.

I would appreciate any suggestions!

Thanks