Approach for Super Resolution in Ultrasound Imaging: An Overview

Abstract

Ultrasound imaging is a wide spread technique

used to view body soft tissues, like tendons, muscle or

internal organs for possible problems. These images are

achieved by capturing the returned acoustic waves using

an ultrasonic transducer. Due to the propagation in

imperfect environment, the resolution of these images has

a poor quality. The requirements for better resolution

currently represent a very important and open challenge.

Accurate measurement and visualization of structure in

living tissues is intrinsically limited by the imaging system

features. Imaging beyond these limits in medical imaging is

referred to as super-resolution. This paper intends to

provide a brief overview of super-resolution imaging and

to achieve a preliminary synthesis of the most important

directions of study for the resolution improvement