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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:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/06 (2013.01); A61B 8/5246 (2013.01); A61B 8/145 (2013.01); A61B 8/4427 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically controlling a color flow steering angle during ultrasonic color flow imaging are provided. In one embodiment, a method for ultrasound imaging comprises automatically adjusting a color flow steering angle responsive to an adjustment of a focal depth setting. In this way, a sensitivity to color flow data may be increased by maintaining a constant overlap between a color flow image and a B-mode image, thereby increasing the accuracy of color flow imaging.