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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventor:
Yassin Labyed, Maple Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); G01S 7/52049 (2013.01); G01S 15/8927 (2013.01);
Abstract
For ultrasound imaging with an ultrasound scanner, fat fraction of the tissue is measured. The fat fraction may be measured without access to channel data, such as from beamformed data. The speed of sound varies with the fat fraction of tissue, so the fat fraction is used to set the speed of sound in beamforming. Imaging the tissue using the fat fraction-based optimization for speed of sound may provide better images than imaging with an assumed speed.