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Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2013
Applicant:

Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd., Haifa, IL;

Inventors:

Yonina Eldar, Haifa, IL;

Tatiana Chernyakova, Haifa, IL;

Ron Amit, Herzliya, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G03B 42/06 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01); G01S 7/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 42/06 (2013.01); A61B 8/52 (2013.01); G01S 7/52025 (2013.01); G10K 11/343 (2013.01); G01S 7/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes receiving from multiple transducers respective signals including reflections of a transmitted signal from a target. An image of the target is produced irrespective of sparsity of the received signals, by computing transducer-specific frequency-domain coefficients for each of the received signals, deriving, from the transducer-specific frequency-domain coefficients, beamforming frequency-domain coefficients of a beamformed signal in which the reflections received from a selected direction relative to the transducers are emphasized, and reconstructing the image of the target at the selected direction based on the beamforming frequency-domain coefficients.


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