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Table 3 Parameters and image quality measurements for the quadrature SAB method

From: Comparison of synthetic aperture architectures for miniaturised ultrasound imaging front-ends

 

Experiment 1

Experiment 2

Experiment 3

RF Ref

\(i_{max}\)

3

16

48

48

\(SNR\) (dB)

29.1

33.6

38.2

42

\(LR\) (mm)

2.5

1.25

1.2

1.2

\(RC\) (dB)

30.2

35

39.5

43.5

  1. Image quality is quantified using SNR, lateral resolution (LR) and relative contrast (RC). \(i_{max}\) is the number of transmission positions