Comparison of motion corrected multi-plane-transmit beamforming and 3D diverging wave compounding: A simulation study

3D diverging wave compounding (DWC) was recently demonstrated to be capable of providing high-frame-rate imaging, but at the risk of introducing motion artifacts. As an alternative, a hybrid beamforming approach combining the features of DWC and multi-line-transmit (MLT) beamforming was proposed (i.e., multi-plane-transmit, MPT), showing some superiority when compared with 3D DWC [1]. However, in our prior study, motion correction (MoCo) was not used for either beamforming approach. The aim of this study was therefore to extend the comparison of both approaches by incorporating MoCo for both of them.