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Circular statistics vector for improving coherent plane wave compounding image in Fourier domain.
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Ultrasonics [Ultrasonics] 2023 Feb; Vol. 128, pp. 106856. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 27. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In this work, a circular statistics vector (CSV) weighting Fourier domain (FD) beamforming for ultrasound plane-wave images was proposed to achieve better image quality with a high frame rate. Firstly, the cosine and sine components of the instantaneous phase are extracted from undelayed RF signals. Secondly, the FD beamformed cosine and sine components are used to establish the CSV. Finally, the FD beamformed amplitude image is weighted by the CSV. The resolution, contrast, and computation complexity were used to assess the performance of the proposed method. The results revealed that FD&#95;CSV could significantly reduce the computational load compared to the conventional DAS&#95;CSV on the equal improvement of image quality. Besides, compared to coherence factor (CF), phase coherence factor (PCF), etc., based on variance calculation, the CSV based on mean resultant vector calculation can effectively preserve the speckle due to the more tolerant to phase errors. The proposed FD&#95;CSV weighting method has successfully conducted high image quality and low computational load.<br />Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.<br /> (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1874-9968
- Volume :
- 128
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Ultrasonics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 36242803
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2022.106856