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Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2016
Applicant:

Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen Rosenzweig, Seattle, WA (US);

Manoj Menon, Bellevue, WA (US);

Seungsoo Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);

Yassin Labyed, Maple Valley, WA (US);

Liexiang Fan, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5269 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); A61B 8/5253 (2013.01); G01S 7/52022 (2013.01); G01S 7/52042 (2013.01); G01S 7/52077 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01);
Abstract

For noise reduction in elasticity imaging, frequency compounding is used. Displacements caused by the acoustic radiation force impulse are measured using signals at different frequencies, either due to transmission of tracking pulses and reception at different frequencies or due to processing received signals at different sub-bands. The displacements are (a) combined to compound and the compounded displacements are used to determine elasticity or (b) are used to determine elasticity and the elasticities from information at the different frequencies are compounded.


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