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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2002
Anming He Cai, San Jose, CA (US);
Rickard C. Loftman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An image formed from compounded frames of ultrasound data acquired with different steering angles is displayed. Each component frame is associated with a scan of the entire displayed region. A majority of scan lines for each component frame are pointed in one direction or the same relative direction, and a minority of the scan lines are steered at different angles within each component frame to scan the rest of the display region, but with a different steering angle for the majority of scan lines of each of the component frames. As a result, the benefits of spatial compounding component frames associated with different steering angles are provided without having to apply filtering to reduce line artifacts.