High Frequency Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging and Its Biomedical Applications

時間地點:02:30 am, Mar 03 (Wed), 2021; : R1-B1122 Conference Room

研討講者:Chih-Chung Huang, Ph. D.

January 27, 2021

Abstract

Ultrasound imaging has been used widely in many clinical applications. Because the resolution of an ultrasound image increases with operational frequency, high-frequency ultrasound imaging (>30 MHz) was proposed for providing high resolution ultrasound imaging in eye, skin, and small animal imaging applications. However, in conventional ultrasound imaging, the typical use of traditional line-by-line scan leads recording a few samples of the tissue signal during a certain duration; this reduces the frame rate for tracking tissue moving, particularly for blood flow and shear wave propagation. Therefore, a solution based on ultrafast ultrasound imaging was proposed for blood flow mapping in some small vessels and ultrasonic shear wave elastography. In this talk, I am going to show how we combine high-frequency ultrasound and ultrafast imaging. The applications of super resolution blood flow imaging and high resolution ultrasound elastography are also presented in this work, such as mice brain elastography and blood flow mapping, the elastography for eye and human tendons, and the vector Doppler imaging for human small peripheral vessels mapping.

Chih-Chung Huang, Ph. D.

Department of Biomedical Engineering,

National Cheng Kung University

Chih-Chung Huang was born in Taoyuan, Taiwan. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, in 2002, 2003, and 2007. From 2006 to 2007, he worked at NIH Resource Center for Medical Ultrasonic Transducer Technology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA as a Visiting Researcher where he was engaged in research of high frequency ultrasound imaging and development of new acoustic methods for cataract diagnosis. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan as an Assistant Professor. In 2012, Dr. Huang was promoted as an Associate Professor. In 2013, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Currently, he is a Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Huang was the Deputy Director of Medical Device Innovation Center, the Deputy Director of Technology Transfer & Business Incubation Center, the Strategic Planning Division Director of Research & Services Headquarters at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He was the Secretary General of Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include ultrasonic tissue characterization, blood flow measurement, high frequency ultrasound, and ultrasonic instrument for medical applications, etc. Dr. Huang was selected as a member of IFMBE Asia-Pacific Research Networking Fellowship as well as the ordinary member of CoS representative of Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering of IFMBE affiliated Society. Dr. Huang is an associate editor for Medical Physics and Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE as well as the TPC member of IEEE IUS.