Abstract
A new synthetic aperture system for intraluminal imaging has been tested using a 32 element, 20 MHz circular array wrapped around the surface of a catheter appropriate for coronary artery applications. This system is based on an optimal reconstruction method that has been extended to reduce grating lobes using a slight modification to classic synthetic aperture data acquisition. Optimal reconstruction filters have been derived for two different operating modes based on this new data acquisition strategy. Imaging results on a wire target phantom show that spatial resolution is a simple linear function of depth, reaching a minimum 6 dB beam width of approximately 2.2 wavelengths. Sidelobe levels are inherently high for this system because of the small number of firings used to synthesize an aperture. Optimal reconstruction filters, however, can reduce these sidelobes to at least −20 dB in all cases. Finally, images of an excised segment of porcine femoral artery demonstrate the overall performance of the system as an intraluminal imager.
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