Influence of power Doppler gain setting on Virtual Organ Computer‐aided AnaLysis indices in vivo: can use of the individual sub‐noise gain level optimize information?

To demonstrate the influence of gain setting on the calculated Virtual Organ Computer‐aided AnaLysis (VOCAL™) three‐dimensional (3D) indices and define a point, the sub‐noise gain (SNG), at which maximum information is available without noise artifact.

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