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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thilaka S. Sumanaweera, San Jose, CA (US);
John W. Allison, Los Altos, CA (US);
Samuel H. Maslak, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/06 ;
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. Using variations in characteristics for each component frame or sub-set of data, the extended field of view image is enhanced. For example, the steering angle or acquisition frequency associated with each component image is different.