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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2012
Feng Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Christopher Robert Hazard, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Mirsaid Seyed-bolorforosh, Albany, NY (US);
Karsten Hiltawsky, Schwerte, DE;
Zhe Wu, Waukesha, WI (US);
Feng Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Christopher Robert Hazard, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Mirsaid Seyed-Bolorforosh, Albany, NY (US);
Karsten Hiltawsky, Schwerte, DE;
Zhe Wu, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system and method for adaptively controlling a frame interval between ultrasound scanning frames of an ultrasound elasticity imaging scan. The system includes a transmitter for transmitting ultrasound beams to a subject during an ultrasound elasticity imaging scan, and a receiver for receiving ultrasound beam echoes from the subject responsive to transmitted ultrasound beams. The system also includes a processor for processing a plurality of the ultrasound beam echoes to determine a strain variation of the tissue undergoing strain, calculating a value for an ultrasound scanning frame interval adapted for imaging the tissue undergoing the determined strain variation, and setting the value of the ultrasound scanning frame interval for acquiring ultrasound elasticity images of the tissue undergoing the determined strain variation.