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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2015
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Stephen Henderson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tommaso Mansi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Anand Tatpati, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ingmar Voigt, Erlangen, DE;
Bimba Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
An entire volume is scanned. A sub-volume is separately scanned with different settings for beamforming parameters, allowing greater image quality for the sub-volume while providing context from the volume. The anatomy of interest is periodically detected, and the sub-volume shifted in position to cover the anatomy of interest, allowing for relatively continuous volume imaging with enhanced quality imaging of the sub-volume. Interleaving by volume and sub-volume slices may allow for optimization of relative frame rate and image quality. Different combinations between volume and sub-volume data for anatomy detection and display may provide for desired imaging while allowing the regular detection of the anatomy.