Synchronized phased array data acquisition from multiple acoustic windows

Abstract

In some embodiments, ultrasound receive beamforming yields beamformed samples, based upon which spatially intermediate pixels () are dynamically reconstructed. The samples have been correspondingly derived from acquisition through respectively different acoustic windows (). The reconstructing is further based on temporal weighting of the samples. In some embodiments, the sampling is via synchronized ultrasound phased-array data acquisition from a pair of side-by-side, spaced apart () acoustic windows respectively facing opposite sides of a central region () to be imaged. In particular, the pair is used interleavingly to dynamically scan jointly in a single lateral direction in imaging the region. The acquisition in the scan is, along a synchronization line () extending laterally across the region, monotonically progressive in that direction. Rotational scans respectively from the window pair are synchronizable into a composite scan of a moving object. The synchronization line () can be defined by the focuses of the transmits. The progression may strictly increase.