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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2004
Anne Lindsay Hall, New Berlin, WI (US);
Michael Joseph Washburn, Bookfield, WI (US);
Koji Miyama, Hachiouji, JP;
Kirstin Nora Laconte, Waukesha, WI (US);
Anne Lindsay Hall, New Berlin, WI (US);
Michael Joseph Washburn, Bookfield, WI (US);
Koji Miyama, Hachiouji, JP;
Kirstin Nora LaConte, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for displaying accumulated ultrasound images of tissue structures. A set of N image frames is used to produce a peak image display. Multiple peak image displays are produced by discarding the oldest image frame in the set of N image frames and replacing the discarded image frame with another more recent image frame. The more recent image frame is added to the set of image frames to produce a new set of N image frames. The new set of N image frames is used to produce another peak display image. If there is an undesirable amount of distortion or blur in the peak display images due to tissue motion, then the number of image frames in the set of N image frames can be reduced.