Research Article

Clutter Mitigation in Echocardiography Using Sparse Signal Separation

Table 1

Default Field II simulation parameters.

Simulation parameter Default value

Center frequency 5 MHz
Sampling frequency 40 MHz
Fractional bandwidth 50%
Tissue echo correlation 0.98
Clutter echo correlation 1.0
Tissue displacement 1 period per frame (8 pixels)
Clutter displacement 1/8 periods per frame (1 pixel)
MCA time length () 9 frames
MCA axial length () 4 periods (32 pixels)
MCA error threshold
MCA dictionary redundancy 2 : 1
MCA patch samples 84640 patches