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Joint subarray coherence and minimum variance beamformer for multitransmission ultrasound imaging modalities

Qi et al., 2018

Document ID
6136778806667504399
Author
Qi Y
Wang Y
Guo W
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

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Multitransmission modalities, such as plane wave compounding and synthetic aperture imaging, are promising techniques for ultrafast ultrasound imaging. Adaptive beamformers have been proposed to improve the imaging quality. Two common categories of adaptive …
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