摘要
Acoherence-basedcorrectionmethodwasproposedinordertoimprovethelateralresolutionandenhancethecontrastofmedicalultrasoundimaginginthepresenceofphaseaberration.Theaveragedcoherencefactorwasproposedatfirstandusedasametrictoevaluatephaseaberrationcorrection.Bymaximizingtheaveragedcoherencefactor,thetimedelayparameterofeachchannelwasadjusted.AnewsetofcoherencefactorswascalculatedandthecorrecteddatawasoptimizedtoformthefinalB-modeimage.Thesimulationsonpointtargetsandacystphantomshowedthattheproposedmethodoutperformedthenearestneighboringcrosscorrelationmethodandconventionalcoherence-weightingmethod,andthelateralresolutionandcontrastratiowasimprovedbyapproximately0.24mmand18dBrespectively.Theproposedmethodcombinedtheadvantagesofphaseerrorcorrectionandcoherence-weighting,whichcouldimproveimagingqualitieseffectivelyinmedicalultrasound.
出版日期
2015年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)