摘要
Acoustic field patterns of 2-D ultrasound phased arrays for the high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) hyperthermia therapy are studied, and controlling algorithms of field patterns are provided. The 2-D phased array using the conventional single-focus scanning pattern can exactly control the focal distance and the steering direction of the beam, but in general produce a single focus. Extremely high intensity levels will be needed when this pattern is used to treat large tumors. However, a direct synthesis method of the acoustic field based on the pseudo-inverse matrix can produce the multiple-focus field pattern. The rectangular radiator method of the acoustic field was used to simulate the single-focus scanning pattern and the multiple-focus pattern which are produced by a 2-D phased array consisting of 20×20 elements, and simulation results show that the 2-D array using the multiple-focus pattern can produce several foci with lower intensity levels simultaneously. Furthermore, the improved eigenvector algorithm was used to optimize the intensity gain of the multiple-focus pattern. It is shown to increase the power deposition in the target volume and eliminate the undesired interference. And the multiple-focus pattern also allows the complex excitation vector to be weighted to increase the array excitation efficiency, and therefore we can only control the phase distribution of the excitation vector to realize the phase-only multiple-focus pattern synthesis.
Acoustic field patterns of 2-D ultrasound phased arrays for the high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) hyperthermia therapy are studied, and controlling algorithms of field patterns are provided. The 2-D phased array using the conventional single-focus scanning pattern can exactly control the focal distance and the steering direction of the beam, but in general produce a single focus. Extremely high intensity levels will be needed when this pattern is used to treat large tumors. However, a direct synthesis method of the acoustic field based on the pseudo-inverse matrix can produce the multiple-focus field pattern. The rectangular radiator method of the acoustic field was used to simulate the single-focus scanning pattern and the multiple-focus pattern which are produced by a 2-D phased array consisting of 20×20 elements, and simulation results show that the 2-D array using the multiple-focus pattern can produce several foci with lower intensity levels simultaneously. Furthermore, the improved eigenvector algorithm was used to optimize the intensity gain of the multiple-focus pattern. It is shown to increase the power deposition in the target volume and eliminate the undesired interference. And the multiple-focus pattern also allows the complex excitation vector to be weighted to increase the array excitation efficiency, and therefore we can only control the phase distribution of the excitation vector to realize the phase-only multiple-focus pattern synthesis.
