Title :
Freehand spatial compounding [ultrasonic imaging]
Author :
Sumanaweera, Thilaka S. ; Bradley, Charles ; Pang, Linyong ; Hossack, John ; Allison, John
Author_Institution :
Acuson Labs., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
A new retrospective method of spatial compounding is presented. Volunteer scans showed improved contrast to noise ratio, speckle noise variance suppression and enhancement of continuity of linear structures. Phantom experiments showed a reduction of speckle variance by 70.1% and an increase in contrast to noise ratio by 69.1%
Keywords :
acoustic noise; biomedical ultrasonics; medical image processing; speckle; contrast to noise ratio; freehand spatial compounding; linear structure continuity enhancement; phantom experiments; retrospective method; speckle noise variance suppression; ultrasonic images; volunteer scans; Image resolution; Imaging phantoms; Noise reduction; Optical imaging; Probes; Rendering (computer graphics); Sonar detection; Spatial resolution; Speckle; Ultrasonic imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonics Symposium, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Juan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6365-5
DOI :
10.1109/ULTSYM.2000.921648
