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Dr. Lianjie Huang

Senior Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab

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Publications (41)

Proceedings Article | 1 March 2019 Paper

Transrectal ultrasound imaging using plane-wave, fan-beam and wide-beam ultrasound: Phantom results

Lianjie Huang, Yunsong Huang, Kai Gao

Proceedings Volume 10948, 109483P (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2513064

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Prostate, Prototyping, Tissues, Transducers, Imaging systems, Fluctuations and noise, Data acquisition, Ultrasound tomography, Signal to noise ratio

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Proceedings Article | 9 March 2018 Paper

Transrectal ultrasound-waveform tomography using plane-wave ultrasound reflection data for prostate cancer imaging

Lianjie Huang, Kai Gao, Yunsong Huang

Proceedings Volume 10573, 105732I (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293956

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Prostate, Tumors, Data modeling, Transducers, Prostate cancer, Ultrasound tomography, Tissues, Reconstruction algorithms

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Proceedings Article | 1 April 2016 Paper

High-resolution synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging with minimum variance beamforming and spiking deconvolution

Junseob Shin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9790, 97901W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217212

KEYWORDS: Image resolution, Deconvolution, Apodization, Image quality, Synthetic aperture imaging, Transducers, Speckle, Electronic filtering

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Proceedings Article | 1 April 2016 Paper

Ultrasound transmission attenuation tomography using energy-scaled amplitude ratios

Ting Chen, Junseob Shin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9790, 979016 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216412

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Signal attenuation, Tomography, Breast, Breast cancer, Tissues, Ultrasound tomography, Scattering, Transducers, Wave propagation, Cancer, Tumors

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Proceedings Article | 1 April 2016 Paper

Frequency-space prediction filtering for acoustic clutter and random noise attenuation in ultrasound imaging

Junseob Shin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9790, 97901O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216566

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Ultrasonography, Image filtering, Acoustics, Interference (communication), Autoregressive models, Data modeling, Computer simulations, Signal attenuation, Electronic filtering, Speckle

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Proceedings Article | 22 March 2016 Paper

Breast ultrasound tomography with two parallel transducer arrays

Lianjie Huang, Junseob Shin, Ting Chen, Youzuo Lin, Kai Gao, Miranda Intrator, Kenneth Hanson

Proceedings Volume 9783, 97830C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216531

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Ultrasound tomography, Breast, Transducers, Breast cancer, Data acquisition, Tomography, Algorithm development, Signal attenuation, Design for manufacturability, Prototyping, Mammography, In vivo imaging

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Proceedings Article | 22 March 2016 Paper

Ultrasound waveform tomography with the second-order total-generalized-variation regularization

Youzuo Lin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9783, 978356 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216422

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Breast, Breast cancer, Tissues, Ultrasound tomography, Transducers, Optical imaging, Tissue optics, Magnetic resonance imaging, Tumors, Data acquisition, Inverse problems, Medical imaging, Physics

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Proceedings Article | 17 March 2015 Paper

Ultrasound bent-ray tomography with a modified total-variation regularization scheme

Miranda Intrator, Youzuo Lin, Ting Chen, Junseob Shin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9419, 941917 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082192

KEYWORDS: Tumors, Tomography, Ultrasonography, Breast, Diagnostics, Tissues, Image quality, Transducers, Inverse problems, Reconstruction algorithms

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Proceedings Article | 17 March 2015 Paper

Breast ultrasound tomography with two parallel transducer arrays: preliminary clinical results

Lianjie Huang, Junseob Shin, Ting Chen, Youzuo Lin, Miranda Intrator, Kenneth Hanson, Katherine Epstein, Daniel Sandoval, Michael Williamson

Proceedings Volume 9419, 941916 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082404

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Transducers, Breast, Ultrasound tomography, Imaging systems, Data acquisition, Tomography, Prototyping, Mammography, Breast cancer

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Proceedings Article | 20 March 2014 Paper

Breast ultrasound waveform tomography: using both transmission and reflection data, and numerical virtual point sources

Lianjie Huang, Youzuo Lin, Zhigang Zhang, Yassin Labyed, Sirui Tan, Nghia Nguyen, Kenneth Hanson, Daniel Sandoval, Michael Williamson

Proceedings Volume 9040, 90400T (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043136

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Transducers, Breast, Tomography, Data acquisition, Reflection, Ultrasound tomography, Virtual point source, Cancer, Tumors

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Ultrasound transmission tomography usually generates low-resolution breast images. We improve sound-speed reconstructions using ultrasound waveform tomography with both transmission and reflection data. We validate the improvement using computer-generated synthetic-aperture ultrasound transmission and reflection data for numerical breast phantoms. Our tomography results demonstrate that using both transmission and reflection data in ultrasound waveform tomography greatly enhances the resolution and accuracy of tomographic reconstructions compared to ultrasound waveform tomography using either transmission data or reflection data alone. To verify the capability of our novel ultrasound waveform tomography, we design and manufacture a new synthetic-aperture breast ultrasound tomography system with two parallel transducer arrays for clinical studies. The distance of the two transducer arrays is adjustable for accommodating different sizes of the breast. The parallel transducer arrays also allow us to easily scan the axillary region to evaluate the status of axillary lymph nodes and detect breast cancer in the axillary region. However, synthetic-aperture ultrasound reflection data acquired by firing each transducer element sequentially are usually much weaker than transmission data, and have much lower signal-to-noise ratios than the latter. We develop a numerical virtual-point-source method to enhance ultrasound reflection data using synthetic-aperture ultrasound data acquired by firing each transducer element sequentially. Synthetic-aperture ultrasound reflection data for a breast phantom obtained using our numerical virtual-point-source method reveals many coherent ultrasound reflection waveforms that are weak or invisible in the original synthetic-aperture ultrasound data. Ultrasound waveform tomography using both transmission and reflection data together with numerical virtual-point-source method has great potential to produce high-resolution tomographic reconstructions in clinical studies of breast ultrasound tomography.

Proceedings Article | 20 March 2014 Paper

Efficient implementation of ultrasound waveform tomography using data blending

Zhigang Zhang, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9040, 90401O (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043133

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Transducers, Ultrasound tomography, Breast, Wave propagation, Tumors, Diffraction, Breast cancer, Computed tomography

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Proceedings Article | 20 March 2014 Paper

Toward real-time bent-ray breast ultrasound tomography using GPUs

Yassin Labyed, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9040, 90401N (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043127

KEYWORDS: Breast, Ultrasound tomography, Ultrasonography, Transmitters, Tomography, Receivers, Ray tracing, Reconstruction algorithms, Transducers, Breast cancer

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Proceedings Article | 20 March 2014 Paper

Ultrasound waveform tomography with a spatially variant regularization scheme

Youzuo Lin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9040, 90401M (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043110

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Tumors, Breast, Transducers, Tissues, Inverse problems, Ultrasound tomography, Compressed sensing, Medical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 20 March 2014 Paper

Ultrasound bent-ray tomography using both transmission and reflection data

Nghia Nguyen, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 9040, 90400R (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043275

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Breast, Tumors, Reflectors, Transducers, Ray tracing, Breast cancer, Ultrasound tomography, Tissues

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Proceedings Article | 29 March 2013 Paper

Ultrasound waveform tomography with a modified total-variation regularization scheme

Youzuo Lin, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 8675, 86751F (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007650

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Tumors, Breast, Ultrasound tomography, Transducers, Breast cancer, Cancer, Optimization (mathematics), Iterative methods

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Proceedings Article | 29 March 2013 Paper

Detecting breast microcalcifications using super-resolution ultrasound imaging: a clinical study

Lianjie Huang, Yassin Labyed, Kenneth Hanson, Daniel Sandoval, Jennifer Pohl, Michael Williamson

Proceedings Volume 8675, 86751O (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007653

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Breast, Mammography, Imaging systems, Super resolution, Data acquisition, Transducers, Optical spheres, Image resolution, Glasses

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Proceedings Article | 29 March 2013 Paper

Ultrasound waveform tomography using wave-energy-based preconditioning

Zhigang Zhang, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 8675, 86751G (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007659

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Tumors, Transducers, Wave propagation, Breast, Data modeling, Receivers, Scattering, Computer simulations

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Proceedings Article | 25 February 2012 Paper

Ultrasound imaging of extended targets using a windowed time-reversal MUSIC method

Yassin Labyed, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 8320, 832019 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910709

KEYWORDS: Optical spheres, Ultrasonography, Detection and tracking algorithms, Glasses, Mammography, X-rays, Transducers, X-ray imaging, Image resolution, Target detection

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Proceedings Article | 25 February 2012 Paper

Detection of breast microcalcifications using synthetic-aperture ultrasound

Lianjie Huang, Yassin Labyed, Youzuo Lin, Zhigang Zhang, Jennifer Pohl, Daniel Sandoval, Michael Williamson

Proceedings Volume 8320, 83200H (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910656

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Breast, Mammography, Imaging systems, In vivo imaging, Glasses, Optical spheres, Tissues, Target detection, Image resolution

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2012 Paper

Efficient implementation of ultrasound waveform tomography using source encoding

Zhigang Zhang, Lianjie Huang, Youzuo Lin

Proceedings Volume 8320, 832003 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910969

KEYWORDS: Tomography, Ultrasonography, Computer programming, Transducers, Tumors, Computed tomography, Ultrasound tomography, Wave propagation, Breast, Computing systems

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2012 Paper

Ultrasound waveform tomography with the total-variation regularization for detection of small breast tumors

Youzuo Lin, Lianjie Huang, Zhigang Zhang

Proceedings Volume 8320, 832002 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910765

KEYWORDS: Breast, Tumors, Ultrasonography, Tomography, Transducers, Ultrasound tomography, Phased arrays, Computed tomography, Wave propagation, Data modeling

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Proceedings Article | 25 March 2011 Paper

High-resolution imaging with a real-time synthetic aperture ultrasound system: a phantom study

Lianjie Huang, Yassin Labyed, Francesco Simonetti, Michael Williamson, Robert Rosenberg, Philip Heintz, Daniel Sandoval

Proceedings Volume 7968, 79681I (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878767

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Imaging systems, Image resolution, Synthetic aperture radar, Transducers, Tissues, Image transmission, Breast, Scanners, Medical imaging

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Proceedings Article | 12 March 2010 Paper

Detecting breast microcalcifications using super-resolution and wave-equation ultrasound imaging: a numerical phantom study

Lianjie Huang, Francesco Simonetti, Peter Huthwaite, Robert Rosenberg, Michael Williamson

Proceedings Volume 7629, 762919 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844459

KEYWORDS: Breast, Ultrasonography, Super resolution, Transducers, Image resolution, Mammography, Reflection, Diffraction, Chemical elements, In vivo imaging

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Proceedings Article | 12 March 2010 Paper

The different structural scales of the breast and their impact on time-of-flight and diffraction tomography

P. Huthwaite, F. Simonetti, L. Huang

Proceedings Volume 7629, 76290L (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844346

KEYWORDS: Breast, Tomography, Diffraction, 3D modeling, Scattering, Ultrasound tomography, Breast cancer, Ultrasonography, Image resolution

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Proceedings Article | 14 March 2009 Paper

A novel synthetic aperture technique for breast tomography with toroidal arrays

F. Simonetti, L. Huang

Proceedings Volume 7265, 72650Y (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811528

KEYWORDS: Breast, Mammography, Point spread functions, Tomography, Ultrasonography, Optical spheres, Diffraction, Scattering, Ultrasound tomography, Cancer

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Proceedings Article | 13 March 2009 Paper

Breast ultrasound tomography with total-variation regularization

Cuiping Li, Neb Duric, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 7265, 726506 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811044

KEYWORDS: Breast, Ultrasonography, Ultrasound tomography, Tomography, Tissues, In vivo imaging, Inverse problems, Reconstruction algorithms, Cancer, Breast cancer

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Proceedings Article | 19 March 2008 Paper

Multi-modal breast imaging with ultrasound tomography

Neb Duric, Cuiping Li, Peter Littrup, Carri Glide-Hurst, Lianjie Huang, Jessica Lupinacci, Steven Schmidt, Olsi Rama, Lisa Bey-Knight, Yang Xu

Proceedings Volume 6920, 69200O (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772203

KEYWORDS: Breast, Image fusion, Signal attenuation, Ultrasound tomography, Cancer, Ultrasonography, Tissues, Transducers, Breast imaging, Mammography

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Proceedings Article | 18 March 2008 Paper

Frequency diversity in breast ultrasound tomography

F. Simonetti, L. Huang, N. Duric

Proceedings Volume 6913, 69134E (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772791

KEYWORDS: Breast, Speckle, Signal to noise ratio, Ultrasound tomography, Scattering, In vivo imaging, Tomography, Ultrasonography, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 13 March 2008 Paper

Comparison of ultrasound attenuation tomography methods for breast imaging

Cuiping Li, Neb Duric, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 6920, 692015 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.771433

KEYWORDS: Signal attenuation, Breast, Ultrasonography, Tomography, Breast imaging, Transducers, In vivo imaging, Tissues, Cancer, In vitro testing

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Proceedings Article | 10 March 2008 Paper

Globally optimized Fourier finite-difference method for ultrasound breast imaging

Lianjie Huang, Kenneth Hanson, Youli Quan, Cuiping Li, Neb Duric

Proceedings Volume 6920, 692007 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.771024

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Breast, Reflectivity, Finite difference methods, Tomography, Scattering, Image restoration, Wave propagation, Breast imaging, Image quality

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Proceedings Article | 10 March 2008 Paper

Clinical breast imaging using sound-speed reconstructions of ultrasound tomography data

Cuiping Li, Neb Duric, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 6920, 692009 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.771436

KEYWORDS: Breast, Ultrasonography, Tissues, Tomography, Mammography, Ultrasound tomography, Reconstruction algorithms, Signal attenuation, Cancer, Breast imaging

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Proceedings Article | 28 March 2007 Paper

Super-resolution ultrasound tomography: a preliminary study with a ring array

F. Simonetti, L. Huang, N. Duric, O. Rama

Proceedings Volume 6510, 65103F (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709828

KEYWORDS: Multiple scattering, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Scattering, Sensors, Signal to noise ratio, Ultrasound tomography, Image resolution, Distortion, Super resolution

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Proceedings Article | 19 March 2007 Paper

Sound-speed and attenuation imaging of breast tissue using waveform tomography of transmission ultrasound data

R. Gerhard Pratt, Lianjie Huang, Neb Duric, Peter Littrup

Proceedings Volume 6510, 65104S (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.708789

KEYWORDS: Tomography, Breast, Transducers, Signal attenuation, Ultrasonography, Data modeling, In vivo imaging, Tumors, Diffraction, Skin

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Proceedings Article | 12 March 2007 Paper

Ultrasound pulse-echo imaging using the split-step Fourier propagator

Lianjie Huang, Youli Quan

Proceedings Volume 6513, 651305 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709998

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Tomography, Breast, Image restoration, Wave propagation, Image quality, Image resolution, Transducers, Scattering, Ultrasonics

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Proceedings Article | 12 March 2007 Paper

Sound-speed tomography using first-arrival transmission ultrasound for a ring array

Youli Quan, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 6513, 651306 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709647

KEYWORDS: Tomography, Breast, Transducers, Ultrasonography, Transmitters, Computer simulations, Receivers, Scattering, Data modeling, Computing systems

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Proceedings Article | 16 March 2006 Paper

Breast imaging with time-reversed ultrasound

Lianjie Huang, Nebojsa Duric, Peter Littrup

Proceedings Volume 6147, 61470I (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.659845

KEYWORDS: Breast, Ultrasonics, Data modeling, Ultrasonography, Transducers, Image resolution, Wave propagation, Breast imaging, Mirrors, Tissues

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Proceedings Article | 23 May 2003 Paper

Ultrasonic breast imaging using a wave-equation migration method

Lianjie Huang, Nebojsa Duric, Peter Littrup

Proceedings Volume 5035, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479915

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonics, Breast, Breast imaging, Ultrasonography, X-rays, Cancer, Tissues, X-ray imaging, Receivers, X-ray computed tomography

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Proceedings Article | 1 October 1998 Paper

Hybrid local Born/Rytov Fourier migration method

Lianjie Huang, Michael Fehler, Charles Burch

Proceedings Volume 3453, (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323291

KEYWORDS: 3D modeling, Explosives, Reflectors, Data modeling, Fourier transforms, 3D image processing, Stereoscopy, Image quality, Clocks, Physics

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Two efficient Fourier migration methods termed the extended local Born Fourier (ELBF) method and the extended Rytov Fourier (ELRF) method have been developed recently for imaging complex 3D structures. They are recursive methods based on local applications of Born and Rytov approximations within each extrapolation interval. The ELBF method becomes unreliable when the lateral slowness variations are large and/or the frequency is high, while the ELRF method is reliable for such cases. However, the ELRF method is approximately 30-40% slower than the ELBF method because the ELRF method requires one more computational step where exponentials of complex numbers are calculated than the ELBF method and propose an implementation scheme using variable extrapolation intervals to make the ELBF method reliable for all lateral slowness variations and frequencies. The size of the extrapolation interval depends on the lateral slowness variations within a given extrapolation region and the frequency, and consequently, the computational time of the ELBF method with variable extrapolation intervals increases with the lateral slowness variation and frequency. To take advantage of the faster computational speed of the ELBF method compared to the ELRF method and the better stability of the ELRF method compared to the ELBF method, we propose a hybrid local Born/Rytov Fourier migration method. In the hybrid method, the ELBF method is used for regions with small lateral slowness variations and/or low frequencies, otherwise, the ELRF method is used. Migrations of two synthetic datasets for complex structures using the ELBF method with variable extrapolation intervals and the hybrid method demonstrate that the quality of images obtained using these two methods is comparable to that of images obtained using the ELRF method. Comparison of computational times for migrations using different methods shows that the ELBF method with variable extrapolation intervals takes much more computational time than the ELRF method but the hybrid method saves more than 10% of the computational time required by the ELRF method.

Proceedings Article | 28 October 1996 Paper

Numerical simulation of wave propagation in strongly heterogeneous media using a lattice solid approach

Lianjie Huang, Peter Mora

Proceedings Volume 2822, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255205

KEYWORDS: Wave propagation, Solids, Interfaces, Anisotropy, Numerical simulations, Finite difference methods, Scattering, Computer simulations, Signal attenuation, Acoustics

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Proceedings Article | 28 October 1996 Paper

3-D prestack depth migration with an acoustic pseudo-screen propagator

Lianjie Huang, Ru-Shan Wu

Proceedings Volume 2822, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255212

KEYWORDS: 3D modeling, Acoustics, Wave propagation, Receivers, Data modeling, 3D image processing, Fourier transforms, Ray tracing, Stereoscopy, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 1 September 1995 Paper

Reflected wave modeling in heterogeneous acoustic media using the De Wolf approximation

Ru-Shan Wu, Lianjie Huang

Proceedings Volume 2571, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.218501

KEYWORDS: Reflection, Acoustics, 3D modeling, Scattering, Wave propagation, Multiple scattering, Receivers, Fourier transforms, Interfaces, Finite element methods

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