Acoustic Simulation for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Using GAN-Based Synthetic CT
- Authors
- Koh, Heekyung; Park, Tae Young; Chung, Yong An; Lee, Jong-Hwan; Kim, Hyungmin
- Issue Date
- 1월-2022
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- Keywords
- Magnetic resonance imaging; Computed tomography; Acoustics; Generators; Ultrasonic imaging; Transducers; Generative adversarial networks; Transcranial focused ultrasound; acoustic simulation; single-element transducer; synthetic CT; MRI-only; generative adversarial network; conditional GAN
- Citation
- IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, v.26, no.1, pp.161 - 171
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 161
- End Page
- 171
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/136567
- DOI
- 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3103387
- ISSN
- 2168-2194
- Abstract
- Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a promising non-invasive technique for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders. One of the challenges for tFUS is the disruption of wave propagation through the skull. Consequently, despite the risks associated with exposure to ionizing radiation, computed tomography (CT) is required to estimate the acoustic transmission through the skull. This study aims to generate synthetic CT (sCT) from T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and investigate its applicability to tFUS acoustic simulation. We trained a 3D conditional generative adversarial network (3D-cGAN) with 15 subjects. We then assessed image quality with 15 test subjects: mean absolute error (MAE) = 85.72 +/- 9.50 HU (head) and 280.25 +/- 24.02 HU (skull), dice coefficient similarity (DSC) = 0.88 +/- 0.02 (skull). In terms of skull density ratio (SDR) and skull thickness (ST), no significant difference was found between sCT and real CT (rCT). When the acoustic simulation results of rCT and sCT were compared, the intracranial peak acoustic pressure ratio was found to be less than 4%, and the distance between focal points less than 1 mm.
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