Coherent plane-wave compounding and minimum variance beamforming

Achieving increased frame rate without compromising the image quality is desirable in medical ultrasound imaging. Coherent plane-wave compounding has recently been suggested as an approach to achieve this. This work proposes to generate coherent compound plane-wave images using a minimum variance adaptive beamformer. Through simulations of point scatterers and cyst phantoms, a threefold increase in frame rate is shown.