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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2000
Kutay F. Ustuner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mirsaid S. Bolorforosh, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Albert Gee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A medical diagnostic imaging system generates a compounded beam signal C by combining first and second beam signals B , B subsequent to detection and a synthesized beam signal S by combining the first and second beam signals B , B prior to detection. The compounded signal C and the synthesized signal S are then adaptively weighted in response to a selection signal and combined to form an image signal. In this way, the compounded signal C is made to dominate in regions of the image that benefit from increased contrast resolution and the synthesized signal S is made to dominate in regions of the same image that benefit from increased detail resolution.