Eigenspace-based minimum variance beamforming applied to medical ultrasound imaging

作者: B M Asl , A Mahloojifar

DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1706

关键词: CovarianceImage qualityElectronic engineeringCovariance matrixAdaptive beamformerImage resolutionComputer scienceRobustness (computer science)AlgorithmMinimum-variance unbiased estimatorMedical imaging

摘要: … 5 and 6 verify the robustness of our proposed EIbmv beamformer against the sound velocity … errors in the sound velocity. Fig. 6 also shows that the EIbmv beamformer outperforms the …

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