Contrast enhancement and robustness improvement of adaptive ultrasound imaging using forward-backward minimum variance beamforming

作者: B M Asl , A Mahloojifar

DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1880

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摘要: … 4 and 5 verify the robustness of our proposed FBMV beamformer against the sound velocity … , even with high estimation error in the sound velocity. It must be noted that the results …

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