Airborne ultrasound surface motion camera: Application to seismocardiography.
Shirkovskiy, P., A. Laurin, N. Jeger-Madiot, D. Chapelle, M. Fink, and R. K. Ing.
Applied Physics Letters 112, no. 21 (2018).
Résumé: © 2018 Author(s). The recent achievements in the accelerometer-based seismocardiography field indicate a strong potential for this technique to address a wide variety of clinical needs. Recordings from different locations on the chest can give a more comprehensive observation and interpretation of wave propagation phenomena than a single-point recording, can validate existing modeling assumptions (such as the representation of the sternum as a single solid body), and provide better identifiability for models using richer recordings. Ultimately, the goal is to advance our physiological understanding of the processes to provide useful data to promote cardiovascular health. Accelerometer-based multichannel system is a contact method and laborious for use in practice, and also even ultralight accelerometers can cause non-negligible loading effects. We propose a contactless ultrasound imaging method to measure thoracic and abdominal surface motions, demonstrating that it is adequate for typical seismocardiogram (SCG) use. The developed method extends non-contact surface-vibrometry to fast 2D mapping by originally combining multi-element airborne ultrasound arrays, a synthetic aperture implementation, and pulsed-waves. Experimental results show the ability of the developed method to obtain 2D seismocardiographic maps of the body surface 30 × 40 cm 2 in dimension, with a temporal sampling rate of several hundred Hz, using ultrasound waves with the central frequency of 40 kHz. Our implementation was validated in-vivo on eight healthy human participants. The shape and position of the zone of maximal absolute acceleration and velocity during the cardiac cycle were also observed. This technology could potentially be used to obtain more complete cardio-vascular information than single-source SCG in and out of clinical environments, due to enhanced identifiability provided by the distributed measurements, and observation of propagation phenomena.
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Noninvasive Imaging of the Coronary Vasculature Using Ultrafast Ultrasound.
Maresca, D., M. Correia, O. Villemain, A. Bizé, L. Sambin, M. Tanter, B. Ghaleh, and M. Pernot.
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging 11, no. 6 (2018): 798–808.
Résumé: © 2018 The Authors Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of coronary ultrafast Doppler angiography (CUDA), a novel vascular imaging technique based on ultrafast ultrasound, to image noninvasively with high sensitivity the intramyocardial coronary vasculature and quantify the coronary blood flow dynamics. Background: Noninvasive coronary imaging techniques are currently limited to the observation of the epicardial coronary arteries. However, many studies have highlighted the importance of the coronary microcirculation and microvascular disease. Methods: CUDA was performed in vivo in open-chest procedures in 9 swine. Ultrafast plane-wave imaging at 2,000 frames/s was combined to an adaptive spatiotemporal filtering to achieve ultrahigh-sensitive imaging of the coronary blood flows. Quantification of the flow change was performed during hyperemia after a 30-s left anterior descending (LAD) artery occlusion followed by reperfusion and was compared to gold standard measurements provided by a flowmeter probe placed at a proximal location on the LAD (n = 5). Coronary flow reserve was assessed during intravenous perfusion of adenosine. Vascular damages were evaluated during a second set of experiments in which the LAD was occluded for 90 min, followed by 150 min of reperfusion to induce myocardial infarction (n = 3). Finally, the transthoracic feasibility of CUDA was assessed on 2 adult and 2 pediatric volunteers. Results: Ultrahigh-sensitive cine loops of venous and arterial intramyocardial blood flows were obtained within 1 cardiac cycle. Quantification of the coronary flow changes during hyperemia was in good agreement with gold standard measurements (r 2 = 0.89), as well as the assessment of coronary flow reserve (2.35 ± 0.65 vs. 2.28 ± 0.84; p = NS). On the infarcted animals, CUDA images revealed the presence of strong hyperemia and the appearance of abnormal coronary vessel structures in the reperfused LAD territory. Finally, the feasibility of transthoracic co ronary vasculature imaging was shown on 4 human volunteers. Conclusions: Ultrafast Doppler imaging can map the coronary vasculature with high sensitivity and quantify intramural coronary blood flow changes.
Mots-Clés: angiography; blood flow; coronary; Doppler; imaging; ultrasound
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Non-Gaussian Correlations between Reflected and Transmitted Intensity Patterns Emerging from Opaque Disordered Media.
Starshynov, I., A. M. Paniagua-Diaz, N. Fayard, A. Goetschy, R. Pierrat, R. Carminati, and J. Bertolotti.
Physical Review X 8, no. 2 (2018).
Résumé: © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. The propagation of monochromatic light through a scattering medium produces speckle patterns in reflection and transmission, and the apparent randomness of these patterns prevents direct imaging through thick turbid media. Yet, since elastic multiple scattering is fundamentally a linear and deterministic process, information is not lost but distributed among many degrees of freedom that can be resolved and manipulated. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that the reflected and transmitted speckle patterns are robustly correlated, and we unravel all the complex and unexpected features of this fundamentally non-Gaussian and long-range correlation. In particular, we show that it is preserved even for opaque media with thickness much larger than the scattering mean free path, proving that information survives the multiple scattering process and can be recovered. The existence of correlations between the two sides of a scattering medium opens up new possibilities for the control of transmitted light without any feedback from the target side, but using only information gathered from the reflected speckle.
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Real-time quantitative Schlieren imaging by fast Fourier demodulation of a checkered backdrop.
Wildeman, S.
Experiments in Fluids 59, no. 6 (2018).
Résumé: © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. A quantitative synthetic Schlieren imaging (SSI) method based on fast Fourier demodulation is presented. Instead of a random dot pattern (as usually employed in SSI), a 2D periodic pattern (such as a checkerboard) is used as a backdrop to the refractive object of interest. The range of validity and accuracy of this “Fast Checkerboard Demodulation” (FCD) method are assessed using both synthetic data and experimental recordings of patterns optically distorted by small waves on a water surface. It is found that the FCD method is at least as accurate as sophisticated, multi-stage, digital image correlation (DIC) or optical flow (OF) techniques used with random dot patterns, and it is significantly faster. Efficient, fully vectorized, implementations of both the FCD and DIC/OF schemes developed for this study are made available as open source Matlab scripts.
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