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## 2D Time Reversal Reconstruction For A Circular Sensor Example

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Overview Simulating the data Avoiding the inverse crime Interpolating incomplete sensor data

### Overview

This example demonstrates the use of k-Wave for the time-reversal reconstruction of a two-dimensional photoacoustic wave-field recorded over a circular sensor array. The sensor data is simulated and then time-reversed using `kspaceFirstOrder2D`. It builds on the 2D Time Reversal Reconstruction For A Line Sensor Example.

- open the file in the MATLAB Editor
- run the file in MATLAB

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### Simulating the data

The sensor data is simulated using `kspaceFirstOrder2D` with an external image map for the initial pressure distribution in the same way as the Loading External Image Maps Example (this time the image is representative of vasculature). A plot of the initial pressure distribution (scaled to 256 by 256 pixels) and the Cartesian sensor mask used to record the pressure field (70 sensor points over a 270 degree measurement angle) is shown below.

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### Avoiding the inverse crime

To avoid the inverse crime (in which computations are run forwards and backwards using the same parameters and discretisation thereby possibly disguising any underlying errors), in this example the time-reversal reconstruction is computed using measurement data with added noise and a different computational grid. The use of a different reconstruction grid size is straightforward for a Cartesian sensor mask; in the forward simulation the pressure time-series at the Cartesian points are computed using interpolation and can thus be transposed to a grid of any size. The time-reversal reconstruction using a 300 by 300 pixel k-space grid is shown below.

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### Interpolating incomplete sensor data

In the reconstruction shown above, the edges of original image have been significantly blurred. This is due to outgoing waves from each discrete detector position on the measurement surface interacting with other positions at which a pressure value is also being enforced during the time reversal. This interaction can be avoided by interpolating the recorded data onto a continuous (rather than discrete) measurement surface within the k-space grid used for the reconstruction. This can be achieved using `interpCartData` and a binary sensor mask of a continuous arc that is spatially equivalent to the original Cartesian measurement surface. This function calculates the equivalent time-series at the sensor positions on the binary sensor mask from those on the Cartesian sensor mask via interpolation (nearest neighbour is used by default).

    % create a binary sensor mask of an equivalent continuous circle
    pixel_radius = round(sensor_radius/kgrid_recon.dx);
    binary_sensor_mask = makeCircle(kgrid_recon.Nx, kgrid_recon.Nz, kgrid_recon.Nx/2, kgrid_recon.Nz/2, pixel_radius, sensor_angle);

    % interpolate data to remove the gaps
    [binary_sensor_data] = interpCartData(kgrid_recon, sensor_data, sensor_mask, binary_sensor_mask);

Details of the interpolation are printed to the command line.

    Interpolating Cartesian sensor data...
      interpolation mode: nearest
      number of Cartesian sensor points: 70
      number of binary sensor points: 574
      computation completed in 0.018583s

The reconstructed image and a profile through z = -0.5 are shown below. The interpolation has considerably sharpened the edges of the reconstruction and the magnitude has also been improved through partial correction for the discontinuous aperture.

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© 2009, 2010 Bradley Treeby and Ben Cox.