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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Pedro Santos, Trondheim, NO;
Jan D'hooge, Mechelen, BE;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/54 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various methods and systems are provided for ultrasound imaging with multi-line transmit. In one example, a method for ultrasound imaging comprises reducing an acoustic intensity at a position away from an array transducer of a combined beam formed from a plurality of transmit beams emitted by the array transducer in a multi-line transmit event by selectively adjusting one or more pulse parameters of one or more individual transmit beams of the combined beam for a given energy level of the one or more individual transmit beams.