An Optimized Compounding Approach to Ultrasond Imaging

Abstract

We develop an optimized approach to exploit pairs of ultrasound scans of the same image plane with the aim of enhancing the quality of ultrasound imaging. Each image pair is assumed to be co-registered with 90° separation between the two insonification directions. Using multi-channel image restoration, the proposed approach provides significant improvement to the quality of ultrasound imaging. Enhanced images are presented, and the advantages of this new approach over presently available methods are discussed.