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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2017
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventors:
Yassin Labyed, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Andrzej Milkowski, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4872 (2013.01); A61B 5/7267 (2013.01); A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61B 8/0858 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); A61B 8/486 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/5246 (2013.01);
Abstract
For tissue property estimation with ultrasound, multiple different types of measurements are performed by an ultrasound system, including scatter measurements and shear wave propagation measurements. The tissue property, such as liver fat fraction, is estimated using a combination of these different types of measurements.