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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2016 Nov 29;64(3):491–499. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2016.2633429

TABLE I.

Contrast and contrast-to-noise ratios FEM simulation

Algorithm 4 slices 6 slices 12 slices 16 slices
C MRF 12.03 11.87 11.70 11.68
NNB 12.08 11.91 11.77 11.75
LIN 10.15 10.68 11.06 11.12

CNR MRF 11.01 9.86 9.49 9.39
NNB 9.16 8.05 7.74 7.67
LIN 5.49 7.02 7.76 7.92

Values of contrast (C) and contrast-to-noise ratios (CNR) in dB between the inclusion and the background. (MRF = Markov random field algorithm, NNB = nearest neighbor interpolation, LIN = linear interpolation).