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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Liexiang Fan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Paul Freiburger, Seattle, WA (US);
John Benson, Issaquah, WA (US);
Liexiang Fan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Paul Freiburger, Seattle, WA (US);
John Benson, Issaquah, WA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
Classification preprocessing is provided for medical ultrasound shear wave imaging. In response to stress, the displacement at one or more locations in a patient is measured. The displacement over time is a curve representing a shift in location. One or more characteristics of the curve, such as signal-to-noise ratio and maximum displacement, are used to classify the location. The location is classified as fluid or fluid tissue, solid tissue, or non-determinative. Subsequent shear imaging may provide shear information for locations of solid tissue and not at other locations.