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They are indeed mainly based on scoring LUS images, reconstructed with standard clinical scanners, through the sole evaluation of visual patterns, whose visualization depends on imaging parameters. To develop quantitative techniques is therefore fundamental to understand which parameters influence the vertical artifacts' intensity. In this study, we quantitatively analyzed the dependence of nine vertical artifacts observed in a thorax phantom on four parameters, i.e., center frequency, focal point, bandwidth, and angle of incidence. The results showed how the vertical artifacts are significantly affected by these four parameters, and confirm that the center frequency is the most impactful parameter in artifacts' characterization. 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