A new high channels density ultrasound platform for advanced 4D cardiac imaging

摘要

A novel ultrasound (US) platform with high channels density that offers flexibility, precision and open access is a pre-requisite to open new frontiers in diagnostic and/or therapy by experimental implementation of new enabled advanced techniques: dual-mode US imaging/therapies in the heart, new approaches to study the myocardial tissue (structure/characterization), fast sparse array strategies, multi-line transmit (MLT), powerful motion correction strategies. To date few systems in the world permit to have a full control both in transmit and receive of all single elements simultaneously of arrays with more than 1000 transducers. This paper presents a powerful US platform for implementing 4D (real-time 3D) advanced US strategies.