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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2008
Jin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hong Gyo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Ra Young Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Ronald E. Daigle, Redmond, WA (US);
Jin Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hong Gyo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Ra Young Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Ronald E. Daigle, Redmond, WA (US);
Medison Co., Ltd., Kangwon-do, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to transmit apodization using a sinc function in an ultrasound system. The ultrasound system includes: a transmission unit operable to generate transmit pulse signals with transmit apodization applied by using a sinc function; a probe operable to generate ultrasound signals based on the transmit pulse signals to thereby form a transmit beam and transmit the transmit beam along a predetermined scan line among a plurality of scan lines in a target object, the probe being further operable to receive ultrasound echoes reflected from the target object; and a reception unit operable to form receive signals corresponding to a plurality of scan lines based on the ultrasound echoes.