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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Harm Jan Willem Belt, Weert, NL;
Steven Antonie Willem Fokkenrood, S'Hertogenbosch, NL;
Fei Zuo, Eindhoven, NL;
Alexander Franciscus Kolen, Eindhoven, NL;
Szabolcs Deladi, Veldhoven, NL;
Godefridus Antonius Harks, Rijen, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to an imaging system for imaging a periodically moving object. An assigning unit () assigns ultrasound signals like A-lines to motion phases based on a provided phase signal, wherein an ultrasound images generation unit () generates several ultrasound images like gated M-mode images for the different motion phases based on the ultrasound signals assigned to the respective motion phase. The ultrasound images are temporally consecutively displayed on a display unit () for showing the periodic movement of the object (). The resulting dynamic, movie-like image of the object allows a user like a physician to more reliably determine properties of the object like a thickness of a tissue wall, in particular, during an ablation procedure. The imaging system is therefore particularly useful for monitoring cardiac ablation procedures.