RF is short for Radio Frequency. In communication engineering, The term “RF-signals” is
used to denote signals containing frequency information in the frequency bands used for radio
communication. The term RF has been adopted by the ultrasound industry, where it is used as
a standard notation for unprocessed data, where the frequency information is intact. In
ultrasound imaging, the received RF signal is the output of the beamformer:
Modern ultrasound probes (linear- and