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This paper evaluates alternative reconstruction algorithms to delay-sum-and-integrate (DAS) in-silico<\/jats:italic> and ex-vivo<\/jats:italic> to more reliably map intra-spinal canal sources in the face of interference. Approach.<\/jats:italic> A proof-of-concept 400\/800 kHz (transmit\/receive) spine-specific array prototype was used to generate intracanal cavitation through intact human vertebrae and passively monitor the corresponding acoustic emissions. Delay-multiply-sum-and-integrate (DMAS) beamforming was compared to DAS in two different implementations, full array (DMAS) and half-array multiplicative compounding (DMASMu), in the modeled cavitation scenarios where paraspinal cavitation is present. Main results.<\/jats:italic> Both DMAS and DMASMu improved image quality by reducing peak sidelobes and increasing image signal-to-noise ratio. Aberration corrections further improved image quality metrics and, when applied selectively to voxels co-registered to the canal, assisted localization when prefocal sources were present in-silico<\/jats:italic>. When localizing canal sources in the presence of paraspinal cavitation, a switch to DMAS\/DMASMu offered a more consistent localization rate in-silico<\/jats:italic> and ex-vivo<\/jats:italic>, though ex-vivo<\/jats:italic> phase and amplitude corrections failed to replicate in-silico<\/jats:italic> findings. 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