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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 07, 2021
Applicant:

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (US);

Inventors:

Zeljko Ignjatovic, Rochester, NY (US);

Michael Huang, Rochester, NY (US);

Swetha George, Rochester, NY (US);

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, Rochester, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52047 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/4472 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/565 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); G01S 15/8918 (2013.01); G01S 15/8959 (2013.01); G01S 7/003 (2013.01); G01S 7/52096 (2013.01); G01S 15/8925 (2013.01); G01S 15/8993 (2013.01);
Abstract

An ultrasound imaging system includes an array of ultrasound transducer elements chat send ultrasound energy into an object when energized for respective transmission time periods and provide responses to ultrasound energy emitted from the object for respective reception time periods, a reception modulation circuit modulating the responses with irregular sequences of modulation coefficients, a combiner circuit combining the modulated responses, and an image reconstruction processor configured to computer-process the combined modulated responses into one or more images of the object.


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