Characteristics of Minimum Variance Beamformer for Frequency and Plane-wave Compounding

Ryoya Kozai, Norio Tagawa, Masasumi Yoshizawa, Takasuke Irie, Takasuke Irie

2021

Abstract

Recently, coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) that achieves high spatiotemporal resolution has been studied actively as a spatial compounding beamformer. Further, various frequency compounding methods have been proposed for reducing speckle noise. We already proposed the method called frequency and plane-wave compounding minimum variance distortionless response (FPWC-MVDR), which achieves high spatial resolution imaging by simultaneously optimizing frequency and spatial compounding based on minimum variance scheme. In the algorithm of this method, the data-compounded-on-receive MVDR (DCR-MVDR) principle developed for CPWC is extended and applied. In this study, we analyze the features and characteristics of FPWC-MVDR and the weaknesses to be solved in the future through experiments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kozai R., Tagawa N., Yoshizawa M. and Irie T. (2021). Characteristics of Minimum Variance Beamformer for Frequency and Plane-wave Compounding. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 4: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-488-6, SciTePress, pages 423-430. DOI: 10.5220/0010300404230430

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp21,
author={Ryoya Kozai and Norio Tagawa and Masasumi Yoshizawa and Takasuke Irie},
title={Characteristics of Minimum Variance Beamformer for Frequency and Plane-wave Compounding},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 4: VISAPP},
year={2021},
pages={423-430},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010300404230430},
isbn={978-989-758-488-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 4: VISAPP
TI - Characteristics of Minimum Variance Beamformer for Frequency and Plane-wave Compounding
SN - 978-989-758-488-6
AU - Kozai R.
AU - Tagawa N.
AU - Yoshizawa M.
AU - Irie T.
PY - 2021
SP - 423
EP - 430
DO - 10.5220/0010300404230430
PB - SciTePress