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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2018
Applicant:

Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Tong Nicolas Yu, Eindhoven, NL;

Sheng-Wen Huang, Ossining, NY (US);

Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Andover, MA (US);

Oudom Somphone, Paris, FR;

Shiying Wang, Melrose, MA (US);

Assignee:

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5246 (2013.01); A61B 8/145 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/5276 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention provides an ultrasound data processing method for pre-processing signal data in advance of generating ultrasound images. The method seeks to reduce noise through application of coherent persistence to a series of raw ultrasound signal representations representative of the same path or section through a body but at different successive times. A motion compensation procedure including amplitude peak registration and phase alignment is applied to raw echo signal data in advance of application of persistence in order to cohere the signals and thereby limit the introduction of motion induced artifacts.


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