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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Sogang University, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-woo Koh, Yongin-si, KR;
Yang-mo Yoo, Seoul, KR;
Sun-mi Yeo, Seoul, KR;
Woo-youl Lee, Seoul, KR;
Young-tae Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hwan Shim, Seoul, KR;
Hyung-joon Lim, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An ultrasound system and a clutter filtering method thereof are provided. The clutter filtering method includes: transmitting an ultrasound signal to an object; receiving a reflection signal reflected from the object; performing a singular value decomposition (SVD) on a plurality of doppler signals constituting the reflection signal; dividing a representation of the object into a plurality of regions according to a result of performing the SVD; determining cutoff frequencies of the plurality of regions according to different methods; and performing clutter filtering on the plurality of regions by using the determined cutoff frequencies.