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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1986
Bruno Dousse, Basel, CH;
Kontron Holding A.G., Zurich, CH;
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for producing improved ultrasonic cross-sectional images of a body subject to a number of consecutive and at least partly overlapping scans by the pulse echo method to produce digital image signals corresponding to the received echoes. The illustrated systems includes an ultrasonic transducer scanner energized by a transmitter, and a receiver configuration which processes the received echo signals for display on a TV monitor. To reduce the image-quality-limiting noise while retaining a satisfactory representation of moving parts in the zone under examination, image signals corresponding to corresponding scanning dots of consecutive scans are combined in the receiver circuit which utilizes time-discrete non-linear filtering with filter coefficients which vary as a function of the filter input signal. This arrangement and the related process produce improved images.