Ultrasonic Imaging of Foreign Inclusions and Blood Vessels Through Thick Skull Bones

This paper reports on the development of a portable ultrasonic transcranial imaging system aimed at improving the clinical use of transcranial diagnostic ultrasound. Conventional methods face issues with image distortion due to the skull's interference. To overcome this, the new system employs two alternative methods. The first uses adaptive beamforming to detect small foreign objects in the brain by compensating for skull-induced phase aberrations. The second visualizes blood flow through the skull by analyzing ultrasonic speckle reflections. Both methods were tested successfully on realistic skull and head phantoms.

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