A Performance Investigation of Receive Beamforming Schemes in Specular Tissue Characterization

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Hauptverfasser: Malamal, Gayathri, Panicker, Mahesh Raveendranatha
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author Malamal, Gayathri
Panicker, Mahesh Raveendranatha
author_facet Malamal, Gayathri
Panicker, Mahesh Raveendranatha
contents This work presents a comparison of the delay and sum (DAS), filtered delay multiply and sum (DMAS), minimum variance (MV) and specular receive beamforming schemes in the context of ultrasound imaging of specular reflectors. The main contributions of the study are, 1) a performance comparison of the four receive beamforming schemes through experimental studies for varying angulations of planar reflectors and for reflectors located at varying depths in the medium and, 2)an investigation on the influence of the sub-array length in MV beamforming on the imaging of specular structures. The qualitative conclusions are quantitatively validated in terms of contrast and generalized contrast-to-noise ratios. The study examines the benefits and drawbacks of each receive beamforming technique and highlights the significance of application-tailored beamforming schemes for imaging specular structures.
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spellingShingle A Performance Investigation of Receive Beamforming Schemes in Specular Tissue Characterization
Malamal, Gayathri
Panicker, Mahesh Raveendranatha
Image and Video Processing
Medical Physics
This work presents a comparison of the delay and sum (DAS), filtered delay multiply and sum (DMAS), minimum variance (MV) and specular receive beamforming schemes in the context of ultrasound imaging of specular reflectors. The main contributions of the study are, 1) a performance comparison of the four receive beamforming schemes through experimental studies for varying angulations of planar reflectors and for reflectors located at varying depths in the medium and, 2)an investigation on the influence of the sub-array length in MV beamforming on the imaging of specular structures. The qualitative conclusions are quantitatively validated in terms of contrast and generalized contrast-to-noise ratios. The study examines the benefits and drawbacks of each receive beamforming technique and highlights the significance of application-tailored beamforming schemes for imaging specular structures.
title A Performance Investigation of Receive Beamforming Schemes in Specular Tissue Characterization
topic Image and Video Processing
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08069