Highly accurate and reliable ultrasonic focusing capability in heterogeneous media using a spherical cavity transducer

作者全名："Song, Dan; Xiong, Jiupeng; Luo, Man; Gong, Xiaobo; Huang, Wenjun; Zeng, Chen; Zhou, Yufeng; Li, Faqi; Wang, Zhibiao"

作者地址："[Song, Dan; Xiong, Jiupeng; Luo, Man; Zeng, Chen; Zhou, Yufeng; Li, Faqi; Wang, Zhibiao] Chongqing Med Univ, Coll Biomed Engn, Key Lab Ultrasound Med & Engn, Chongqing, Peoples R China; [Luo, Man; Gong, Xiaobo; Huang, Wenjun; Wang, Zhibiao] Natl Engn Res Ctr Ultrasound Med, Chongqing, Peoples R China; [Wang, Zhibiao] Chongqing Haifu Hosp, Chongqing, Peoples R China"

通信作者："Zhou, YF; Li, FQ; Wang, ZB (通讯作者)，Chongqing Med Univ, Coll Biomed Engn, Key Lab Ultrasound Med & Engn, Chongqing, Peoples R China.; Wang, ZB (通讯作者)，Natl Engn Res Ctr Ultrasound Med, Chongqing, Peoples R China.; Wang, ZB (通讯作者)，Chongqing Haifu Hosp, Chongqing, Peoples R China."

来源：FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS

ESI学科分类：PHYSICS

WOS号：WOS:000978983400001

JCR分区：Q2

影响因子：3.1

年份：2023

卷号：11

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文献类型：Article

关键词：focused ultrasound ablation surgery; ultrasonic focusing; focus shift; spherical cavity transducer; standing-wave focusing

摘要："Introduction: Focused ultrasound ablation surgery (FUAS) has been emerging to treat a wide range of conditions non-invasively and effectively with promising therapeutic outcomes. The focusing capability of an ultrasound transducer (i.e., focus shift, beam distortion, and acoustic pressure at the focus) determines the ablation effects. However, the focus shift and focal beam distortion after ultrasound propagating through multi-layered heterogeneous viscoelastic biological tissues become significant and are found to deteriorate the performance of FUAS in clinics.Methods: To achieve an accurate and reliable focal field among patients with large variations in the anatomical structures and properties, a spherical cavity transducer with open ends and sub-wavelength focal size (Li et al., APL, 2013,102:204102) was applied here. Both experimental measurements and numerical simulations were performed to characterize the acoustic fields of the spherical cavity transducer in water, the multi-layered concentric cylindrical phantom, and the heterogeneous tissue model (an adult male pelvis enclosed by porcine skin, fat, and muscle) and then compared with those of a conventional concave transducer at the same electrical power output.Results: It is found that standing-wave focusing using the spherical cavity transducer results in much less focus shift (0.25? vs. 1.67?) along the transducer axis and focal beam distortion (-6 dB beam area of 0.71 mm(2) vs. 4.72 mm(2) in water and 2.55 mm(2) vs. 17.30 mm(2) in tissue) in the focal plane but higher pressure focusing gain (40.05 dB vs. 33.61 dB in tissue).Discussion: Such a highly accurate and reliable focal field is due to the excitation at an appropriate eigen-frequency of the spherical cavity with the varied media inside rather than the reverberation from the concave surface. Together with its sub-wavelength focal size, the spherical cavity transducer is technically advantageous in comparison to the concave one. The improved focusing capability would benefit ultrasound exposure for not only safer and more effective FUAS in clinics, but also broad acoustic applications."

基金机构："National Natural Science Foundation of China [81127901, 12074051, 12174043, 12204079]"

基金资助正文："Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 81127901, 12074051, 12174043, and 12204079)."