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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventors:
Kutay F. Ustuner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nicholas Bottenus, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/48 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); G01S 15/8977 (2013.01); G10K 11/346 (2013.01); G01S 7/52049 (2013.01);
Abstract
Acoustic reciprocity between transmit and receive is used for coherence ultrasound imaging. Rather than finding coherence across the receive channels, coherence is found across transmit channels. Broad transmit beams are used for different transmit elements or apertures to create beamformed frames of data. The coherence between these transmit channel frames of beamformed data is calculated and used for imaging.