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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Moo Ho Bae, Seoul, KR;
Jeong Ho Ham, Seoul, KR;
Moo Ho Bae, Seoul, KR;
Jeong Ho Ham, Seoul, KR;
Medison Co., Ltd., Hongchun-gun, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of removing an effect of side lobes in an ultrasound synthetic image. The method includes: a) setting a plurality of scan lines and defining sequential indices upon the scan lines; b) setting a transmit order of a transmit beam for the scan lines in a non-sequential manner in which increment and decrement of the indices of the scan lines are repeated; c) transmitting the transmit beam based on the set transmit order to obtain a plurality of receive beams in response to each transmission of the transmit beam; d) grouping the receive beams to an increment group corresponding to an increment direction of the numbers of the scan lines and a decrement group corresponding to a decrement direction of the numbers of the scan lines; e) performing an auto correlation upon the receive beams included in the respective increment group and the decrement group; and f) applying weights to the auto correlation results and summing the weight-applied auto correlation results to thereby remove an effect of side lobes.