Study and Development of a System for 2-D Ultrasonic Tomography
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https://doi.org/10.37537/rev.elektron.7.2.186.2023Keywords:
tomography, ultrasound, reflectionAbstract
In this work, we study and develop a system for two-dimensional ultrasonic tomography. The main focus of the development was to make the system suitable for reuse in other applications of a similar nature. For this purpose, we carried out the design and implementation of a system to explore the sample under estudy using only one commercial immersion transducer and the development of a reconstruction algorithm to generate the images from the measured acoustic signals. Moreover, we implemented a software to simulate the tomographic system. Finally, in order to evaluate the performance of the real and simulated system, we used the Pearson correlation and the peak signal-to-noise ratio as figure of merits between the reconstructed and the reference images.Downloads
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