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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2014 Jul;61(7):1113–1122. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.3011

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Left to right: B-mode, SLSC, and color-Doppler volumes of in vivo liver vasculature. B-mode and SLSC volumes display cutaway views of the acquired volume in order to show the full extent of vessels in three dimensions. A narrow vessel spanning 6 to 9 cm depth appears in both B-mode and SLSC volumes as well as a large vessel located at the lower part of the field of view. While the SLSC volume shows reduced acoustic noise inside of the vessels compared to the B-mode volume, parts of the narrow vessel in the SLSC volume are difficult to distinguish from the surrounding tissue. The SLSC volume also indicates the presence of two small vessels at 6 cm depth (denoted by black arrows) that do not appear in B-mode and color-Doppler volumes. These structures are more clearly visualized in the azimuth SLSC slice in Figure 4.