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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2004
Larry Y. L. MO, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ching-hua Chou, Fremont, CA (US);
Ting-lan Ji, San Jose, CA (US);
Glen W. Mclaughlin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Larry Y. L. Mo, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ching-Hua Chou, Fremont, CA (US);
Ting-Lan Ji, San Jose, CA (US);
Glen W. McLaughlin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Zonare Medical Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for ultrasound clutter filtering is provided. A processor is configured to iteratively select an optimal high pass filter for the progressive, ordered filtering of clutter from ultrasound color flow imaging data. The high pass filter input for each iterative selection and ordered set of high pass filters is the same original ultrasound color flow imaging data. The high pass filters have different cutoff frequencies whereby each high pass filter can be implemented using different structures. The system and method allow for filtering of clutter from ultrasound color flow imaging data until the clutter is substantially removed.