{"paper":{"title":"An Efficient Nonlinear Beamformer Based on P^{th} Root of Detected Signals for Linear-Array Photoacoustic Tomography: Application to Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["physics.ins-det","physics.med-ph"],"primary_cat":"eess.SP","authors_text":"Bahador Makkiabadi, Manojit Pramanik, Moein Mozaffarzadeh, Vijitha Periyasamy","submitted_at":"2018-05-24T21:49:11Z","abstract_excerpt":"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 to its simple implementation, but it leads to low quality images. Delay-Multiply-and-Sum (DMAS) provides a higher image quality in comparison with DAS while it imposes a computational burden of O(M^2). In this work, we introduce a nonlinear (NL) beamformer for linear-array PA imaging, which uses the p^{th} root of the detected signals and imposes the complexity of DAS (O(M)). The proposed algorithm is evaluated numeri"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1805.09913","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}