04528nam 22010453a 450 991036775640332120250203235430.09783039212002303921200110.3390/books978-3-03921-200-2(CKB)4100000010106153(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/61482(ScCtBLL)8e20122e-9085-4ba5-8c76-9d1b302c7892(OCoLC)1163842411(oapen)doab61482(EXLCZ)99410000001010615320250203i20192019 uu engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUltrasound B-Mode Imaging : Beamforming and Image Formation Techniques /Giulia Matrone, Alessandro Ramalli, Piero TortoliMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute2019Basel, Switzerland :MDPI,2019.1 electronic resource (146 p.)9783039211999 3039211994 Ultrasound medical imaging stands out among the other diagnostic imaging modalities for its patient-friendliness, high temporal resolution, low cost, and absence of ionizing radiation. On the other hand, it may still suffer from limited detail level, low signal-to-noise ratio, and narrow field-of-view. In the last decade, new beamforming and image reconstruction techniques have emerged which aim at improving resolution, contrast, and clutter suppression, especially in difficult-to-image patients. Nevertheless, achieving a higher image quality is of the utmost importance in diagnostic ultrasound medical imaging, and further developments are still indispensable. From this point of view, a crucial role can be played by novel beamforming techniques as well as by non-conventional image formation techniques (e.g., advanced transmission strategies, and compounding, coded, and harmonic imaging). This Special Issue includes novel contributions on both ultrasound beamforming and image formation techniques, particularly addressed at improving B-mode image quality and related diagnostic content. This indeed represents a hot topic in the ultrasound imaging community, and further active research in this field is expected, where many challenges still persist.History of engineering and technologybicsscsignal-to-noise ratio (SNR)multi-perspective ultrasound imagingdictionary learningcommon carotid arteryspatial resolutioncontrast enhancementsparse representationPMUT linear arrayK-singular value decompositiontime resolutioncardiac imagingcoded excitationplane wavebeam patterngrating lobe suppressionspatial coherencesubcutaneous fat layercylindrical scanningparallel beam formingmicrobubbleMR-visible fiducial markerultrasonic imagingspeckle reductionmulti-line transmissionMRIadaptive beamformingsuper-resolutionfiltered-delay multiply and sum beamformingB-mode imagingmedical ultrasoundintima-media complex longitudinal motionsynthetic aperturequantitative parametrizationarterial wall motionpth rootbeam formingmedical image processingcrosstalk artifactsultrasound imagingdiverging wave1-3 piezocomposite materialdynamic focusingmulti-line acquisitionimage reconstructionplane wave imagingultrasoundmulti-line transmitreconstructionthyroid imagingbeamformingHistory of engineering and technologyMatrone Giulia1787926Ramalli AlessandroTortoli PieroScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910367756403321Ultrasound B-Mode Imaging4322005UNINA