FORWARD-BACKWARD MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING COMBINED WITH COHERENCE WEIGHTING APPLIED TO ULTRASOUND IMAGING

Ting Zhou, Qiao-liang Li, Xin Chen, Tian-fu Wang, Si-ping Chen

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