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2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium

DOI: 10.1109/ultsym.2012.0485

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Resolution improvement in Thomson's multitaper approach using the pulse inversion technique

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Abstract

The speckle pattern in ultrasound imaging reduces image quality. The Thomson's multitaper approach smoothes the speckle but one drawback is the decrease of the spatial resolutions. It is shown in this paper that the combination of Pulse Inversion and Thomson's multitaper techniques called Multitaper Pulse Inversion (MPI) can reduce speckle noise and limit the resolution loss on second harmonic images in simulations and acquisitions.