An ultrasound image provides the radiologist with noninvasive, low cost, and real-time images that can help them in diagnosis, planning and therapy. However low PSNR (picture signal to noise ratio) in ultrasound images causes difficulties in correct interpretation of ultrasound images. Further speckle noise present in ultrasound images is considered to be the major cause of its low PSNR. In thi...

When compared to suffixes, prefixes possess several distinctive but largely unexplained properties. This paper explores the idea that these properties might arise from a common source, namely discontinuous recognition of spoken prefixed words, in which listeners ‘skip’ to that portion of the speech stream which contains the root. If this occurs, listeners could potentially perceive prefixes ver...

To meet the challenge of providing adequate coverage at high field strength, a combination of two complementary methods is proposed: reshaped waveforms with the VERSE technique and a modulated angle refocusing train. It was hypothesized that pulses can be reshaped and flip angles can be modulated such that power is cut in half and thus coverage doubled. Volunteer experiments at 3T using an SSFS...

In modern wireless communications, numerous diversity techniques are used to improve the performance of signal transmission over multiple channels. This paper focuses primarily on the evaluation of Quasi Orthogonal & Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (STBC) for a 4x2 system model. The paper proceeds by checking which of these two codes Orthogonal STBC or Quasi-orthogonal STBC, is better by eval...

Speech enhancement techniques using spectral subtraction have the drawback of generating residual noise with a musical character, so-called musical noise. We developed a new post-processing method for suppressing this musical residual noise. In this method, the auditory masking threshold is calculated twice, once before the spectral subtraction and once again afterwards. This ensures that all a...