Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High resolution compound ultrasound flow imaging
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Application No.: US16065235Application Date: 2015-12-28
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Publication No.: US11432793B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Per Haugaard , Gert Seerup
- Applicant: B-K Medical Aps
- Applicant Address: DK Herlev
- Assignee: B-K Medical Aps
- Current Assignee: B-K Medical Aps
- Current Assignee Address: DK Herlev
- Agency: Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., LPA
- International Application: PCT/IB2015/060016 WO 20151228
- International Announcement: WO2017/115104 WO 20170706
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; A61B8/06 ; A61B8/14 ; A61B8/08 ; G01S7/52 ; G01S15/89

Abstract:
An ultrasound imaging system includes a transducer array (202) with a plurality of transducer elements (206) configured to transmit a pulsed field beam into a scan field of view, receive echo signals produced in response to the pulsed field interacting with particles/structure flowing/moving in the scan field of view, and generate electrical signals indicative of the echo signals. The ultrasound imaging system further includes a beamformer (212) including multiple synthetic transmit aperture beamformers configured to process the electrical signals over a plurality of processing channels (312) into corresponding receive-beams of RF-data with a beam-level delay, channel-level delays, a beam-level gain and channel-level gains. The ultrasound imaging system further includes a velocity processor (216) configured to estimate a flow velocity of the structure flowing in the scan field of view from the RF-data. The ultrasound imaging system further includes a rendering engine (224) configured to display the flow velocity estimate on a display (226) with color-coding.
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