Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Année : 2025

Simulation, Design and characterization of a Large Divergent Element Sparse Array (LDESA) for 3D Ultrasound Imaging

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Sparse arrays address the complexity of manufacturing large 2D arrays. However, they usually suffer from a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to their small element size. The Large Divergent Element (LDE) technology overcomes this limitation by simultaneously having a large emitting area and a large angular aperture. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of imaging in B-mode using the Large Divergent Element Sparse Array (LDESA), that is, increasing the sparse array SNR without noteworthy impact contrast. The paper provides the simulation, the design and an experimental characterization of a 1 MHz LDESA. Simulations are performed using the Angular Impulse Response based Ultrasound Simulation (AIRUS), providing coupled image-transducer optimizations of LDESA designs. Probe parameters, including probe diameter, layout, LDE size and electroacoustic response, are optimized to maximize the contrast ratio. The final layout is a 100 mm diameter Fermat spiral covered by 256 LDEs. Each LDE is 3.5 mm wide in diameter and experimentally reaches an angular aperture of 75°at -6 dB in echo. The transmit focused beam is 1°wide and steerable up to 60°with an amplitude loss of only 10 dB. The array exhibits a 2.2 mm lateral resolution and a 1.8 mm axial resolution in a wire experiment.

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hal-05135761 , version 1 (30-06-2025)

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Jean-Baptiste Jacquet, Jean-Luc Guey, Pierre Kauffmann, Mohamed Tamraoui, Emmanuel Roux, et al.. Simulation, Design and characterization of a Large Divergent Element Sparse Array (LDESA) for 3D Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, In press, ⟨10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3583178⟩. ⟨hal-05135761⟩
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