Salari et al., 2021 - Google Patents
User parameter-free minimum variance beamformer in medical ultrasound imagingSalari et al., 2021
- Document ID
- 10734285515032591353
- Author
- Salari A
- Asl B
- Publication year
- Publication venue
- IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
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The minimum variance beamformer (MVB) is a well-known adaptive beamformer in medical ultrasound imaging. Accurate estimation of the covariance matrix has a great effect on the performance of the MVB. In adaptive ultrasound imaging, parameters such as the subarray …
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