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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
May. 09, 2007
Applicant:
Anders Rasmus Sørnes, Oslo, NO;
Inventor:
Anders Rasmus Sørnes, Oslo, NO;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound system comprises an ultrasound probe for transmitting transmit beams and receiving receive beams. A processor controls the ultrasound probe to direct the transmit beams in a first direction to acquire a first incidence frame of data and a second direction to acquire an second incidence frame of data, wherein the first and second directions are different with respect to each other. A tissue characterization module compares the normal and oblique incidence frames of data to determine at least one property parameter of a scanned medium based on amplitude differences between the receive beams.