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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2007
Peter Lysyansky, Haifa, IL;
Israel Raz, Highland Park, IL (US);
Zvi Friedman, Kiryat Byalik, IL;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for performing a protocol-driven ultrasound examination for generating an image of moving cardiac structure and blood of a heart. One embodiment comprises a front-end and at least one processor. The front end is arranged to transmit ultrasound waves into the moving cardiac structure and blood, generating received signals in response to the ultrasound waves backscattered from the moving cardiac structure and blood. The at least one processor, responsive to the received signals, acquires at least one image of the structure in at least one of a predetermined order and a predefined protocol, and selects at least one of the acquired images taken along at least one of a given view and study.