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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2000
John A. Hossack, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Linyong Pang, Stanford, CA (US);
Thilaka S. Sumanaweera, San Jose, CA (US);
John W. Allison, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kutay F. Ustuner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles E. Bradley, Burlingame, CA (US);
Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system aligns substantially co-planar two-dimensional images to form an extended field of view using improved compounding methods. Compounding with a finite impulse response is used for more versatile compositing. The compounding is adaptive, such as through adapting the image regions, weighting, or type of compounding as a function of correlation, location within the image, estimated motion or combinations thereof. A user warning is provided as a function of the correlation between images.