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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2001
Franz Wiesauer, Zipf, AT;
Abstract
In a method for examining objects using ultrasound according to the reflection process, in particular 3D scanning, the object is scanned with an ultrasound transducer ( ) with associated transmit/receive unit ( ) appropriate for volume scanning and the obtained echo data are stored in a volume memory ( ) in clear assignation to the local coordinates of the reflection points. During scanning the spatial line density and/or the temporal repetition frequency, in which certain volume areas are scanned, is deflected by the contents of the information obtained or obtainable from these areas in such a form that areas having less information content are scanned more seldom and/or with less scanning density than areas having a higher information content.