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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2021
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Christian Perrey, Mondsee, AT;
Martin Swoboda, Hohenzell, AT;
GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
A system and method for automatically setting an elevational tilt angle of a mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe is provided. The method includes acquiring, by a mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe of an ultrasound system, an ultrasound volume of a region of interest. The method includes analyzing, by at least one processor of the ultrasound system, the ultrasound volume to identify an ultrasound image slice depicting an anatomical object of interest. The ultrasound image slice corresponds with an elevational tilt angle. The method includes setting, by the at least one processor, the mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe to the elevational tilt angle corresponding with the ultrasound image slice depicting the anatomical object of interest. The method includes acquiring, by the mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe, a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound image at the elevational tilt angle. The method includes causing, by the at least one processor, a display system to present the 2D ultrasound image.