Table 1.

Example 1—SNR and SSIM of Noisy and Denoised Signals at 16- and 4-Scan

data averaging		noisy SNR	noisy SSIM	denoised SNR	denoised SSIM
16-scan	signal	57	0.9899	9.2 × 104	0.9975
	peak 1	0.5	0.1885	2.1 × 103	0.8244
	peak 2	15	0.9967	4.6 × 104	0.9976
	peak 3	10	0.9925	4.6 × 104	0.9942
	peak 4	0.7	0.1027	2 × 103	0.8329
	peak 5	0.7	0.2018	1.9 × 103	0.7274
	peak 6	14	0.9970	4.4 × 104	0.9975
	peak 7	14	0.9962	4.4 × 104	0.9974
	peak 8	0.9	0.1980	2 × 103	0.6149
	peak 9	1.1	0.3249	1.5 × 103	0.9267
	peak 10	19	0.9985	4.3 × 104	0.9987
	peak 11	20	0.9985	4.2 × 104	0.9988
	peak 12	0.3	0.0811	322	0.5439
4-scan	signal	15	0.9724	4.7 × 103	0.9992
	peak 1	0.3	0.0067	NA-distorted	0.1201
	peak 2	9	0.9931	2.4 × 103	0.9974
	peak 3	8	0.9896	2.2 × 103	0.9936
	peak 4	0.3	−0.0264	NA-distorted	0.1949
	peak 5	0.3	0.0133	179	0.6668
	peak 6	10	0.9939	2.3 × 103	0.9985
	peak 7	7	0.9866	2.3 × 103	0.9940
	peak 8	0.4	0.0393	NA-distorted	0.2034
	peak 9	0.4	0.1077	192	0.8161
	peak 10	8	0.9923	2.3 × 103	0.9968
	peak 11	7	0.9904	2.1 × 103	0.9934
	peak 12	0.4	0.0565	126	0.7855