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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);

Inventors:

Ray Vanderby, Madison, WI (US);

Mon-Ju Wu, Madison, WI (US);

Joseph Karls, Fitchburg, WI (US);

Sarah Kuehl, Madison, WI (US);

William A. Sethares, Madison, WI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5253 (2013.01); A61B 8/5246 (2013.01); G06T 7/0036 (2013.01); A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract

An ultrasound imaging system combines successive images of a time series to produce high-resolution ultrasound. A piecewise registration process and deemphasizing of high-frequency spatial components may be used to aid in the combination process. A high-definition image may be obtained with or separately from this process by combining different images obtained with different ultrasound frequencies. The images are weighted to accentuate the contribution of high-frequency ultrasound data at the leading edge of imaged structure.


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