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most citedDouble-Stage Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming Algorithm: Application to Linear-Array Photoacoustic Imaging

205 citations · 702 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

eess.SP2024

Simultaneous Coherent and Displacement Compounding for 2D Noninvasive Carotid Strain Imaging: a Proof of Principle Study

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Anne E. C. M. Saris, Jan Menssen +1

Arteriosclerosis results from lipid buildup in artery walls, leading to plaque formation, and is a leading cause of death. Plaque rupture can cause blood clots that might lead to a…

physics.app-ph2020★ 5 cited

Technical Considerations when using Verasonics Research Ultrasound Platform for Developing a Photoacoustic Imaging System

Karl Kratkiewicz, Rayyan Manwar, Yang Zhou +2

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging functional and molecular imaging technology that has attracted much attention in the past decade. Recently, many researchers have used th…

eess.SP2018★ 51 cited

Eigenspace-Based Minimum Variance Combined with Delay Multiply and Sum Beamformer: Application to Linear-Array Photoacoustic Imaging

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Vijitha Periyasamy +2

In Photoacoustic imaging, Delay-and-Sum (DAS) algorithm is the most commonly used beamformer. However, it leads to a low resolution and high level of sidelobes. Delay-Multiply-and-…

eess.SP2018★ 26 cited

An Efficient Nonlinear Beamformer Based on P^{th} Root of Detected Signals for Linear-Array Photoacoustic Tomography: Application to Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Vijitha Periyasamy, Manojit Pramanik +1

In linear-array transducer based photoacoustic (PA) imaging, B-scan PA images are formed using the raw channel PA signals. Delay-and-Sum (DAS) is the most prevalent algorithm due t…

eess.SP2018

An Image Registration Based Technique for Noninvasive Vascular Elastography

Sina Valizadeh, Bahador Makkiabadi, Alireza Mirbagheri +4

Non-invasive vascular elastography is an emerging technique in vascular tissue imaging. During the past decades, several techniques have been suggested to estimate the tissue elast…

eess.SP2018★ 5 cited

Effects of Important Parameters Variations on Computing Eigenspace-Based Minimum Variance Weights for Ultrasound Tissue Harmonic Imaging

Mehdi Haji Heidari, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Rayyan Manwar +1

In recent years, the minimum variance (MV) beamforming has been widely studied due to its high resolution and contrast in B-mode Ultrasound imaging (USI). However, the performance…

eess.SP2018★ 13 cited

Model-Based Photoacoustic Image Reconstruction using Compressed Sensing and Smoothed L0 Norm

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki +1

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a novel medical imaging modality that uses the advantages of the spatial resolution of ultrasound imaging and the high contrast of pure optical imagi…

eess.SP2018★ 2 cited

Three-Dimensional Photoacoustic Tomography using Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming Algorithm

Roya Paridar, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar +2

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), is a promising medical imaging technique that provides the high contrast of the optical imaging and the resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging. Among al…

eess.SP2018★ 26 cited

Photoacoustic Image Formation Based on Sparse Regularization of Minimum Variance Beamformer

Roya Paridar, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi +1

Delay-and-Sum (DAS) is the most common algorithm used in photoacoustic (PA) image formation. However, this algorithm results in a reconstructed image with a wide mainlobe and high…

eess.SP2018★ 4 cited

Double Minimum Variance Beamforming Method to Enhance Photoacoustic Imaging

Roya Paridar, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki +1

One of the common algorithms used to reconstruct photoacoustic (PA) images is the non-adaptive Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer. However, the quality of the reconstructed PA images o…

eess.SP2018★ 205 cited

Double-Stage Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming Algorithm: Application to Linear-Array Photoacoustic Imaging

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Mahdi Orooji +2

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging medical imaging modality capable of providing high spatial resolution of Ultrasound (US) imaging and high contrast of optical imaging. De…

eess.SP2018★ 9 cited

Medical Photoacoustic Beamforming Using Minimum Variance-Based Delay Multiply and Sum

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Mahdi Orooji

Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer is the most common beamforming algorithm in Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) due to its simple implementation and real time imaging. However, it provides…

eess.SP2018★ 79 cited

Double Stage Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming Algorithm Applied to Ultrasound Medical Imaging

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Masume Sadeghi, Ali Mahloojifar +1

In Ultrasound (US) imaging, Delay and Sum (DAS) is the most common beamformer, but it leads to low quality images. Delay Multiply and Sum (DMAS) was introduced to address this prob…

eess.SP2018★ 19 cited

Image Enhancement and Noise Reduction Using Modified Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Beamformer: Application to Medical Photoacoustic Imaging

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Mahdi Orooji

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality capable of providing both high contrast and high resolution of optical and UltraSound (US) imaging. When a sh…

eess.SP2017★ 7 cited

Image Improvement in Linear-Array Photoacoustic Imaging using High Resolution Coherence Factor Weighting Technique

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, Bahador Makkiabadi

In Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), the most prevalent beamforming algorithm is delay-and-sum (DAS) due to its simple implementation. However, it results in a low quality image affecte…

eess.SP2017★ 19 cited

Eigenspace-Based Minimum Variance Adaptive Beamformer Combined with Delay Multiply and Sum: Experimental Study

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Mohammadreza Nasiriavanaki +1

Delay and sum (DAS) is the most common beamforming algorithm in linear-array photoacoustic imaging (PAI) as a result of its simple implementation. However, it leads to a low resolu…

physics.med-ph2017★ 104 cited

Enhanced Linear-array Photoacoustic Beamforming using Modified Coherence Factor

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Yan Yan, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi +1

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising medical imaging modality providing the spatial resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging and the contrast of pure optical imaging. For linear…

eess.SP2017★ 7 cited

Photoacoustic Imaging using Combination of Eigenspace-Based Minimum Variance and Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Beamformers: Simulation Study

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Seyed Amin Ollah Izadi Avanji, Ali Mahloojifar +1

Delay and Sum (DAS), as the most common beamforming algorithm in Photoacoustic Imaging (PAI), having a simple implementation, results in a low-quality image. Delay Multiply and Sum…

eess.SP2017★ 121 cited

Linear-Array Photoacoustic Imaging Using Minimum Variance-Based Delay Multiply and Sum Adaptive Beamforming Algorithm

Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Ali Mahloojifar, Mahdi Orooji +3

In Photoacoustic imaging (PA), Delay-and-Sum (DAS) beamformer is a common beamforming algorithm having a simple implementation. However, it results in a poor resolution and high si…