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    High frame-rate cardiac ultrasound imaging with deep learning

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    Cardiac ultrasound imaging requires a high frame rate in order to capture rapid motion. This can be achieved by multi-line acquisition (MLA), where several narrow-focused received lines are obtained from each wide-focused transmitted line. This shortens the acquisition time at the expense of introducing block artifacts. In this paper, we propose a data-driven learning-based approach to improve the MLA image quality. We train an end-to-end convolutional neural network on pairs of real ultrasound cardiac data, acquired through MLA and the corresponding single-line acquisition (SLA). The network achieves a significant improvement in image quality for both 5−5- and 7−7-line MLA resulting in a decorrelation measure similar to that of SLA while having the frame rate of MLA.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of MICCAI, 201

    Multiline Transmit Beamforming Combined With Adaptive Apodization

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