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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
May. 07, 1997
Mir Said Seyed-Bolorforosh, Brookfield, WI (US);
David John Muzilla, Mukwonago, WI (US);
David D Becker, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Doralie Martinez, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Xiao-Liang Xu, Brookfield, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for frame averaging ultrasound imaging data. A one-tap IIR filter is used to average the corresponding pixel data of two frames. The frame averaging is a function of a normalized difference between the pixel data of the two frames. This is achieved by taking the absolute difference between the signal levels of the current frame and the previous frame and dividing the result by the arithmetic (or geometric) mean of the two data. A multitude of look-up tables of output values are generated off-line. Each look-up table is designed to be used under a specific set of operating parameters. In response to the user's selection of these operating parameters, the system downloads a selected frame-averaging look-up table from system memory. During subsequent system operation, the downloaded look-up table outputs values which are a function of the normalized difference between the previous and current frame data used to address the look-up table.