Matched and mismatched pulse compression in medical ultrasound imaging

Pulse compression theory and techniques were developed originally for radar systems but could be carefully adopted for ultrasound-specific problems. In past ten years a considerable amount of research has been done in the area of mismatched filtering for the purpose of its application in ultrasound. However, in a similar way to radar systems for distributed targets, pulse compression has not achieved a success of penetration in commercially available systems.