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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2014
Acist Medical Systems, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Duc Lam, San Jose, CA (US);
J Steve Reynolds, Palo Alto, CA (US);
ACIST MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
An intravascular imaging system includes a transducer capable of generating raw data representative of the structure of a patient's vasculature. The system includes an imaging engine for receiving the raw data and generating enhanced data for presentation to a user. The imaging engine includes a coherence filter, an envelope detection module having one or more envelope detectors, and a spatial filter for processing data in various stages. Such stages of processing in the imaging engine act to reduce high frequency noise, generate low frequency data, reduce low frequency noise, and display low frequency data with an improved signal-to-noise ratio. The system can include an image generator for generating an image based on enhanced data and a display for displaying the generated image.