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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/0841 (2013.01); A61B 8/5215 (2013.01); G01S 7/52036 (2013.01); G01S 7/52046 (2013.01); G01S 7/52077 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 8/5269 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2063 (2016.02); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging system and method includes identifying, with a processor, a subset of the ultrasound channel data with a specular reflector signature, and implementing, with the processor, a specular reflector processing technique on the subset of the ultrasound channel data to calculate at least one of a position and an orientation of a specular reflector. The system and method includes performing an action based on at least one of the position and the orientation of the specular reflector.