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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1994
Zoran B Banjanin, Renton, WA (US);
Varaz Shahmirian, Redmond, WA (US);
Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
Method for providing a blood flow velocity display of blood flow in a blood vessel in an ultrasound imaging system by converting spectral Doppler mode data using estimates of blood flow angle and blood flow velocity. In particular, an embodiment of a first aspect of the present invention is a method which includes the steps of: (a) transmitting an acoustic beam to a region of interest in the blood vessel from a first sub-aperture array in a transducer array; (b) receiving a first echo beam from the region of interest at the first sub-aperture array, which first echo beam is generated by the acoustic beam, and a second echo beam from the region of interest at a second sub-aperture array, which second echo beam is generated by the acoustic beam; (c) estimating a first mean Doppler frequency from the first echo beam substantially in parallel with the step of estimating a second mean Doppler frequency from the second echo beam, both steps of estimating utilizing an auto-correlation algorithm; (d) estimating the angle of blood flow and blood flow velocity in the region of interest in the blood vessel from the first and second mean Doppler frequencies; (e) obtaining data to provide a spectral Doppler mode display; (f) converting the dam to provide a blood flow velocity distribution; and (g) displaying the blood flow velocity distribution along with the estimated blood flow angle.