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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2004
Scott L. Roth, East Hills, NY (US);
Harold M. Hastings, Garden City, NY (US);
Scott L. Roth, East Hills, NY (US);
Harold M. Hastings, Garden City, NY (US);
Imacor Inc., Uniondale, NY (US);
Abstract
The visibility of features in ultrasound images that include at least two types of tissue can be improved by processing the images using a variety of algorithms. In one such algorithm, the ratio of power in a first spatial frequency band to power in a second spatial frequency band is computed for a plurality of samples of a received ultrasound return signal that are associated with a given pixel. In another such algorithm, the ratio of power in a first spatial frequency band to total power is computed. With both algorithms, the computed ratio is then mapped to a gain for the given pixel, the raw intensity of the given pixel is modified in accordance with the gain, and the pixel is displayed with the modified intensity.