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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2005
Jonathan M. Rubin, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jeffrey Brian Fowlkes, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Charles R. Meyer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Srini Tridandapani, Saline, MI (US);
Jonathan M. Rubin, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jeffrey Brian Fowlkes, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Charles R. Meyer, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Srini Tridandapani, Saline, MI (US);
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An ultrasonic imaging system acquires echo signals from an object being imaged such as a moving coronary artery and the cross-correlation between echo signals is employed as an objective measure of relative object location. The method is used in a prescan procedure to determine an optimal gating window to acquire image data during a cardiac gated scan, and it is used during the scan as a real time gating signal.