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In phase compensation, the phase shift of blood flow signal among different plane-wave transmit angles is corrected to improve the angular coherence within each ensemble. Moreover, the subarray method helps to preserve the flow signal by using a shorter temporal window for R(1) estimation. Correlation between the complementary transmit subset is also used for adaptive weighting of the subarray PD image and for adaptive modulation of the temporal coherence to avoid excessive suppression of blood flow. The proposed SA-TMAS with phase compensation is validated using simulation and\n                    <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    datasets. Results show that the proposed method achieves noise suppression comparable to the original full array TMAS while effectively preserving vascular signals due to reduced flow decorrelation. In the simulations, the phase compensation alone improves the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of R(0) image by 2\u20138 dB depending on how dominant the axial flow is in the vessel. Using the R(0) image as the benchmark, the proposed R(1) SA-TMAS image additionally provides CNR improvement of 4 dB in the\n                    <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                    dataset while maintaining the corresponding generalized CNR and thus enables the high-contrast vascular PD images.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1088\/2057-1976\/ae7c0b","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,11]],"date-time":"2026-06-11T22:48:26Z","timestamp":1781218106000},"page":"035091","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["High-contrast ultrafast ultrasound power doppler imaging using subarray adaptive temporal autocorrelation with phase compensation"],"prefix":"10.1088","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4542-4195","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Che-Chou","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Taiwan University of Science and Technology"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chih-Chung","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, and the Medical Device Innovation Center, National Cheng Kung University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Han-Wen","family":"Hsu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Taiwan University of Science and Technology"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"266","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"bpexae7c0bbib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2271","DOI":"10.1109\/TMI.2015.2428634","type":"journal-article","article-title":"Spatiotemporal clutter filtering of ultrafast ultrasound data highly increases Doppler and fUltrasound sensitivity","volume":"34","author":"Demen\u00e9","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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