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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ralph Thomas Hoctor, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Daniel John Buckton, Zipf, AT;
Srinivasan Jagannathan, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Martin Paul Mienkina, Neumarkt am Wallersee, AT;
Jing Jin, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for ultrasound beamforming are provided. One method includes obtaining ultrasound data using receive line spacing that changes as a function of depth, determining a number of transmit events to combine at each of a plurality of points for use in combining the obtained ultrasound data, and aligning the ultrasound data with time delays computed from a probe geometry used to obtain the ultrasound data. The method also includes combining the aligned ultrasound data to generate an ultrasound image.