Granted Patent
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US 12,635,976 · App. 18/903,890 · Granted May 26, 2026
Coherent spread-spectrum coded waveforms in synthetic aperture image formation
A61B8/14A61B8/4461A61B8/4494G01S15/8913G01S15/8915G01S15/8927G01S15/8959G01S15/8997A61B8/4488A61B8/463A61B8/5223A61B8/54G01S15/8945
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Abstract
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging using spread-spectrum, wide instantaneous band, coherent, coded waveforms. In one aspect, a method includes synthesizing a composite waveform formed of a plurality of individual orthogonal coded waveforms that are mutually orthogonal to each other, correspond to different frequency bands and including a unique frequency with a corresponding phase; transmitting an acoustic wave based on the composite waveform toward a target from one or more transmitting positions; and receiving at one or more receiving positions acoustic energy returned from at least part of the target corresponding to the transmitted acoustic waveforms, in which the transmitting and receiving positions each include one or both of spatial positions of an array of transducer elements relative to the target and beam phase center positions of the array, and the transmitted acoustic waveforms and the returned acoustic waveforms produce an enlarged effective aperture.
Claims (19)
1 . A system for synthetic aperture acoustic imaging, comprising:
an acoustic imaging device comprising an array of transducer elements, in communication with one or more computing devices, to produce and transmit a composite acoustic beam, based on a composite waveform, toward a material of interest, wherein the composite waveform comprises a plurality of individual coded waveforms,
wherein the acoustic imaging device is configured to transmit the composite acoustic beam by selection of one or more of the transducer elements of the array to transduce the plurality of individual coded waveforms of the composite waveform into a plurality of corresponding acoustic waveforms that form the composite acoustic beam,
wherein the acoustic imaging device is configured to receive returned acoustic waveforms that are returned from at least part of the material of interest corresponding to at least some transmitted acoustic waveforms that form the composite acoustic beam,
wherein transmitted acoustic waveforms and received returned acoustic waveforms create an enlarged effective aperture of the acoustic imaging device.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the returned acoustic waveforms are received by selection of at least some of the transducer elements of the array to receive the returned acoustic waveforms at one or more receiving positions of the array of transducer elements relative to the material of interest.
3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the composite acoustic beam is transmitted from one or more transmitting positions of the array of transducer elements relative to the material of interest.
4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein one or both of the one or more transmitting positions and the one or more the receiving positions include one or both of (i) spatial positions of the array of transducer elements relative to the material of interest and (ii) beam phase center positions of the array of transducer elements.
5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of individual coded waveforms each correspond to distinct frequency bands, such that each of the individual coded waveforms includes a unique frequency with a corresponding phase.
6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the selected individual coded waveforms that form the composite waveform are individually amplitude weighted, individually phase weighted, or both individually amplitude weighted and individually phase weighted, thereby providing at least one of steering, focus, or forming of the composite acoustic beam.
7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the selected individual coded waveforms include frequency-coded waveforms, phase-coded waveforms, or frequency-coded and phase-coded waveforms.
8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the selected individual coded waveforms that form the composite waveform includes two or more amplitudes, two or more phases, or two or more amplitudes and two or more phases.
9 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
one or more computing devices, comprising a processor and a memory, configured to process the received returned acoustic waveforms to produce a tomographic image containing information of the material of interest based on the received returned acoustic waveforms.
10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the tomographic image includes a volume tomographic rendering of the at least part of the material of interest that provides one or more of a sagittal plane view, coronal plane of view, transverse plane of view, or an arbitrary plane of view.
11 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the one or more computing devices includes a controller unit and a user interface unit in communication with the controller unit, wherein the controller unit is configured to process the received composite waveform to produce the tomographic image of at least part of the material of interest and display the image via the user interface.
12 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the one or more computing devices is configured to produce the composite waveform from the plurality of individual coded waveforms.
13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more computing devices is configured to generate the plurality of individual coded waveforms.
14 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more computing devices is configured to store the plurality of individual coded waveforms.
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