Color flow imaging system utilizing a time domain adaptive wall filter

US5349524A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Christopher DAFT · Pleasanton, US
• Anne Lindsay Hall · New Berlin, US
• Sharbel E. Noujaim · Clifton Park, US
• Lewis J. Thomas, III · Palo Alto, US
• Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II · Scotia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 8, 1993
• Grant date: Sep 20, 1994
• Expiry date: Jan 8, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S15/8981
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An ultrasonic imaging system for displaying color flow images includes a receiver which demodulates ultrasonic echo signals received by a transducer array and dynamically focuses the baseband echo signals. A color flow processor includes a time domain adaptive wall filter which automatically adjusts to changes in frequency and bandwidth of the wall signal components in the focused baseband echo signals. The mean frequency of the resulting filtered baseband echo signals is used to indicate velocity of flowing reflectors and to control color in the displayed image.