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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2008
Applicants:
Bin Yao, Shenzhen, CN;
Qinjun HU, Shenzhen, CN;
Assignee:
Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for quickly determining an imaging region associated with the current transmission in an ultrasonic imaging system includes determining a profile of the imaging region to be processed and, in turn, boundaries of that imaging region according to characteristics of the current transmitted sound field and the demand of the imaging mode. The method also includes computing a set of rectangular coordinates of points on the imaging region to be processed according to the determined boundaries.