DocumentCode
3090427
Title
Thomson´s multitaper high frame rate compounding for speckle reduction
Author
Toulemonde, Matthieu ; Basset, Olivier ; Cachard, Christian ; Tortoli, Piero
Author_Institution
CREATIS, Univ. de Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
fYear
2013
fDate
21-25 July 2013
Firstpage
1452
Lastpage
1455
Abstract
The speckle pattern reduces the image quality in ultrasound imaging. The Thomson´s multitaper approach has been shown to smooth the speckle at the expense of spatial resolution. It is shown in this paper that the combination of high frame rate (HFR) compounding and Thomson´s multitaper method can reduce the speckle noise with limited resolution loss. Compared to the standard transmission strategy, by using a limited number of compounding angles, the frame rate can be improved too.
Keywords
acoustic noise; speckle; ultrasonic imaging; ultrasonic transmission; Thomson multitaper; high frame rate compounding; image quality; speckle noise; speckle reduction; transmission; ultrasound imaging; Image resolution; Phantoms; Radio frequency; Signal to noise ratio; Speckle; Ultrasonic imaging; DPSS; Thomson multitaper; high frame rate ultrasound imaging;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location
Prague
ISSN
1948-5719
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-5684-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0368
Filename
6724762
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