Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging Beamforming Techniques: A Review

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ABSTRACT

Ultrasound imaging, commonly known as sonography, is a medical diagnostic procedure that generates images of interior organs and tissues within the body by using high-frequency sound waves. Because of being non-ionizing, inexpensive, reproducible, non-invasive, simple-to-use, and able to display flow data performance characteristics, ultrasonic imaging has gained international interest. As a result, researchers and engineers sought to improve image quality. Image enhancement methods are used to minimize noise in medical images. Several academic papers in the literature use traditional image enhancement approaches. The primary goal of this paper is to highlight the properties and limitations of a few important and commonly used image enhancing techniques.