Coherent Plane-Wave Compounding and Minimum Variance Beamforming

Publication details

  • Journal: Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, p. 2448–2451, 2012
  • International Standard Numbers:
    • Printed: 1948-5719
    • Electronic: 1948-5727
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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.