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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2017
Crystalview Medical Imaging Limited, St. Helier, GB;
Gil Zwirn, Moshav Mazor, IL;
Abstract
Methods and systems for suppressing clutter effects in ultrasonic imaging systems are presented. Two or more receive beams with different and distinct beam patterns are employed for each reception boresight and each reception phase center. The clutter suppression processing is applied to the beamformed data, and is based on computing one or more features for each range-gate. These features may include variability features, providing an estimate of the variability of the signal received by the different elements of the transducer array for the range-gate, and/or derivative/slope features that are an estimation of a function of spatial derivatives of the signal received by the different elements of the transducer array for the range-gate.