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Research Equipment

T-Vue: A research UST system

    1. 1024 element ring transducer paired to a 1024 channel data acquisition system
    2. Water bath with motorized gantry for imaging phantoms and animals.
    3. GPU based workstation for controlling T-Vue

Algorithms

T-rec: A tomographic reconstruction algorithm

    1. Full wave, frequency based forward modeling
    2. Reconstructions of reflectivity, sound speed, attenuation and density
    3. GPU enabled

 

HHTomo: Tomography enabled hand held (HH) ultrasound systems

    1. Transmission ultrasound data collection system with paired linear probes on a motorized gantry
    2. Hand held reflection tomography system consisting of a single interchangeable probe and 256 data acquisition channels.
    3. Ultrasonix RF data system
    4. Verasonics RF data system
    5. Low frequency linear and convex probes
    6. High frequency linear probes

 

Algorithms

  1. TT Mode: Limited angle transmission ultrasound algorithm
    1. Full wave, frequency based forward modeling
    2. Reconstructions of reflectivity and sound speed
    3. GPU enabled

 

 

TR Mode: Hand held reflectivity and sound speed imaging

    1. Full wave, frequency based forward modeling
    2. Reconstructions of reflectivity and sound speed
    3. GPU enabled

 

Clinical UST Systems

Clinical Use

Clinical prototype

    1. Early prototype for clinical testing
    2. 20 cm ring
    3. 256 channel data acquisition system

 

SoftVue

    1. FDA approved (PMA) for adjunctive breast cancer screening
      1. Supported multi-center screening trial
    2. 1024 channel clinical system
    3. 20 cm ring
    4. Supports ongoing clinical studies