Ultrafast and Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging

In this chapter, the ultrafast and synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging are discussed. In particular, plane wave imaging, which is an ultrafast imaging in ultrasound and has attracted a lot of attention due to providing real-time imaging, has been explained. Moreover, the synthetic transmit aperture imaging technique and its different modified versions (e.g., diverging wave imaging) are explained. Also, a variety of algorithms that have been developed in the reconstruction of images in plane wave imaging, as well as synthetic aperture-based imaging, have been presented.