DocumentCode
3234900
Title
Coherent plane-wave compounding and minimum variance beamforming
Author
Austeng, Andreas ; Nilsen, Carl-Inge Colombo ; Jensen, Are Charles ; Näsholm, Sven Peter ; Holm, Sverre
Author_Institution
Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
fYear
2011
fDate
18-21 Oct. 2011
Firstpage
2448
Lastpage
2451
Abstract
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.
Keywords
array signal processing; biomedical ultrasonics; phantoms; coherent plane-wave compounding; cyst phantoms; frame rate threefold increase; image quality; medical ultrasound imaging; minimum variance adaptive beamformer; minimum variance beamforming; point scatterers; Array signal processing; Arrays; Image quality; Phantoms; Speckle; Ultrasonic imaging;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2011 IEEE International
Conference_Location
Orlando, FL
ISSN
1948-5719
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1253-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ULTSYM.2011.0608
Filename
6293660
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