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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Applicants:
Jianjun Guo, Wuxi, CN;
Menachem Halmann, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Jonathan Alan Bowman, Montgomery, AL (US);
Jiajiu Yang, Wuxi, CN;
Inventors:
Jianjun Guo, Wuxi, CN;
Menachem Halmann, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Jonathan Alan Bowman, Montgomery, AL (US);
Jiajiu Yang, Wuxi, CN;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for needle visualization for an ultrasound imaging device, the method comprising alternately acquiring a tissue frame followed by a needle frame at a temporal spacing to form a frame sequence, spatially compounding the frame sequence, and outputting an image frame resulting from spatial compounding.