Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Yin Hui Deng

Hua Xie

Vijay Thakur Shamdasani

Shiwei Zhou

Ying Wu

The present invention proposes an ultrasound imaging system and method for measuring a property of a region of interest in a subject by using shear wave, wherein an ultrasound probe is configured to sequentially transmit, to each of a plurality of focal spots () in the region of interest, a push pulse () for generating a shear wave (), each of the plurality of focal spots having a mutually different depth value (z, z, z), and to receive ultrasound echo signals adjacent () to each of the plurality of focal spots; a shear wave detector is configured to derive, for each of the plurality of focal spots, a first parameter indicating a property of the generated shear wave, based on the received ultrasound echo signals; and a property estimator is configured to estimate a second parameter indicating the property of the region of interest as a function of the derived first parameters.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Yin Hui Deng