Evaluation of contrast enhancement ultrasound images of Sonazoid microbubbles in tissue-mimicking phantom obtained by optimal Golay pulse compression

Abstract In contrast enhancement ultrasound (CEUS), the vasculature image can be formed from nonlinear echoes arising microbubbles in a blood flow. The use of binary-coded pulse compression is promising for improving CEUS images by suppressing background noise. However, amplitudes reduced, and sidelobes occur depending on binary code. Optimal Golay codes with slight nonlinear-echo reduction sidelobe have been proposed. this study, obtained optimal are evaluated through experiments using Sonazoid flowing tissue-mimicking phantom.