Study on application of complementary Golay code into high frame rate ultrasonic imaging system

Abstract

The high frame rate (HFR) ultrasonic imaging system, which is developed with limited diffraction beams, constructs images at a high frame rate. However the rectangular imaging area, to some extent, restricts the far field imaging information. At the same time, by virtue of one transmission event for constructing image, the system suffers from low SNR. In this paper we present a computationally efficient method to construct sector mode image and to increase the SNR in HFR system. The method uses orthogonal complementary Golay coded excitation to realize two transmit and receive events. Each emission simultaneously transmits two plane waves with different transmission angle. Then according to Golay code orthogonality, the received echo signals related to different angles are isolated and used to construct two images of different imaging area by HFR method. Finally the two images are synthesized to one frame of sector mode image.