Plane wave ultrasound imaging

A system for plane wave ultrasound imaging, the system comprising:

• a transducer array comprising a plurality of transducers, the transducer array configured to:
• transmit a plane wave of a plurality of plane waves at a transmission angle from the transducer array to a target;
• and
• receive a radio frequency (RF) echoes subset of a plurality of RF echoes at a non-zero reception angle;
• a transmit beamformer configured to:
• generate the plane wave by exciting the plurality of ultrasound transducers;
• and
• steer the plane wave to the transmission angle;
• a memory having processor-readable instructions stored therein;
• and
• one or more processors configured to access the memory and execute the processor-readable instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors configures the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
• steering the RF echoes subset to the non-zero reception angle;
• generating a migrated image of a plurality of migrated images from the RF echoes subset by applying a migration method on the RF echoes subset;
• and
• generating an ultrasound image of the target from the migrated image.