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Ultrasonic speckle is inherrent in coherent imaging systems and is modelled as an interference. It occurs due to random inhomogeneties within the specimen under observation. This interference leads to a detection of randomly varying signal which manifests as a random variation of the gray level in the B scan. The resulting textural appearance in the image masks the details of specimen structure.
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Singh, S., Tandon, S.N., Gupta, H.M. (1987). A Modified Sum Focussing Approach to Ultrasonic Speckle Reduction. In: Jones, H.W. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium, July 14–6, 1986. Acoustical Imaging, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5320-1_44
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