Industrialisation of emerging ultrasound technologies (EngD)

该项目的目标是寻找能够降低传统超声扫描仪硬件复杂性的新的和新兴的超声技术。虽然诸如平面波成像和神经网络或基于软件的波束成形等新技术已经导致成像性能的显著进步，但该项目旨在利用新技术通过更有效地使用硬件来为兽医客户带来价值。评估阶段将在任何实际工作之前进行，以便一旦考虑到工业化限制，对新兴技术的早期研究将为战略方向提供信息。尽管上述开创性技术的一般概念已在文献中描述，在低成本和便携式扫描仪中有效实施这些概念方面，学术和公共行业文献中都存在知识差距。这项工作有可能在不断变化的市场中为IMV成像客户提供重大价值。虽然这个项目将主要集中在兽医成像的超声波工程上，但这一领域的研究也同样适用于便携式医用超声波扫描仪。

The goal of this project is to identify novel and emerging ultrasound technologies which can reduce the hardware complexity of conventional ultrasound scanners. Whilst novel technologies such as plane wave imaging and neural network or software-based beamforming have led to significant advances in imaging performance, this project aims to leverage new technologies to bring value to veterinary customers through a more efficient use of hardware.An assessment phase will precede any practical work, such that early research into emerging technologies will inform strategic direction once industrialisation constraints are considered.Whilst the general concepts of the above ground-breaking techniques have been described in literature, a knowledge gap exists both in academic and public industry literature regarding efficient implementation of such concepts in low cost and portable scanners.This work has the potential to deliver significant value to IMV imaging customers in an ever-changing market. Whilst this project will focus mainly on ultrasonic engineering for veterinary imaging, research developed in this domain will be just as applicable to portable medical ultrasound scanners.