Bk Medical Aps

Sound Technology, Inc.

Drake A Guenther

Travis N Blalock

Michael Fuller

An apparatus includes a memory device with computer readable instructions and a processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions encoded on the memory device. The processor, in response to executing the computer readable instructions, obtains an ensemble of ultrasound images with diversity in an ensemble dimension, extracts a sub-set of data from each of the images, constructs a data matrix with the extracted data, wherein the data matrix has a dimension of space versus the ensemble dimension, identifies a largest eigenvalue(s) and a corresponding eigenvector(s) in the data matrix, computes a coherent signal projection matrix with the identified corresponding eigenvector(s), filters the data matrix with the coherent signal projection, and generates an ultrasound image with the filtered data matrix.

Image domain ultrasound imaging denoising filter

An ultrasound imaging system includes a plurality of processing chains () for a plurality of transducer element channels (). A processing chain of the plurality of processing chains, includes: a phase rotation processor () that focuses an N-bit digital representation, of an analog RF signal received on the corresponding transducer element channel, through phase rotation through phase additions or subtractions, and outputs a focused N-bit quantized value, where N is a predetermined positive integer.

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Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Drake A Guenther