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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2005
Shahram Vaezy, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Held, Issaquah, WA (US);
Siddhartha Sikdar, Seattle, WA (US);
Ravi Managuli, Seattle, WA (US);
Vesna Zderic, Seattle, WA (US);
Shahram Vaezy, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Held, Issaquah, WA (US);
Siddhartha Sikdar, Seattle, WA (US);
Ravi Managuli, Seattle, WA (US);
Vesna Zderic, Seattle, WA (US);
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method for obtaining a composite interference-free ultrasound image when non-imaging ultrasound waves would otherwise interfere with ultrasound imaging. A conventional ultrasound imaging system is used to collect frames of ultrasound image data in the presence of non-imaging ultrasound waves, such as high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). The frames are directed to a processor that analyzes the frames to identify portions of the frame that are interference-free. Interference-free portions of a plurality of different ultrasound image frames are combined to generate a single composite interference-free ultrasound image that is displayed to a user. In this approach, a frequency of the non-imaging ultrasound waves is offset relative to a frequency of the ultrasound imaging waves, such that the interference introduced by the non-imaging ultrasound waves appears in a different portion of the frames.