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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
May. 14, 1996
Robert S Arling, North Andover, MA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging method employs an ultrasound transducer which outputs a beam that is scanned along a scan plane. The transducer is controllable to move the scan plane to plural non-coplanar orientations. The imaging method comprises the steps of: operating the ultrasound transducer to acquire and store data indicative of an ultrasound image in each of a plurality of scan planes that are non-coplanar. For each ultrasound image that is acquired in a scan plane that is non-coplanar with a reference scan plane, the ultrasound image is transformed by performing a projection of the non-coplanar scan plane and its image data onto the reference scan plane. The projected non-coplanar ultrasound image is then displayed by employing the projection data indicative of the image.