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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2020
Accutome Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Mark E. Schafer, Lower Gywnedd, PA (US);
Cheng-Ning Chang, North Wales, PA (US);
Ross Lefkowitz, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Accutome, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
Ultrasound systems having a computing device, a steering mechanism, and an ultrasound transducer are disclosed. The ultrasound transducer is configured to generate angularly discrete signals over a scan region of the ultrasound system in response to inputs from the steering mechanism. The computing device is communicatively coupled to the ultrasound transducer. The computing device includes a processor configured to receive angularly discrete ultrasound signals from the ultrasound transducer over the scan region, determine a scan line count corresponding to each of the received angularly discrete ultrasound signals, associate a TGC curve with each of the scan line counts, apply a TGC curve to each of the angularly discrete ultrasound signals as associated with the scan line count of each angularly discrete ultrasound signal, where each of the applied TGC curves defines a gain that maintains, increases, or decreases the angularly discrete ultrasound signal to which it is applied, over time.