Differentiable Co-Design of Ultrasound Probe Geometry and Acquisition for Plane-Wave Imaging
Ultrasound image quality depends on both the probe geometry and the transmit and receive processing, but engineers usually design the two separately. Physics-based simulators (Field II, k-Wave, MUST/SIMUS) compute the radio-frequency channel data but give no gradients, so design studies must use grid or black-box searc...