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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroaki Kataoka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 ;
Abstract
In order to obtain an optimum PRF, the velocity distribution of an echo source is calculated based on the Doppler shift of an ultrasonic wave echo, the profile of the velocity distribution is calculated ( ), the reflection of the profile is corrected ( ), the maximum value of the velocity in the corrected profile is detected ( ), and the PRF of the ultrasonic wave transmission is adjusted based thereon ( ).