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Method and apparatus for ultrasound image reconstruction

US6228028A · kind A · utility

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30Claims

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Assignee

Tomtec Imaging Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

Peter Klein · Itzehoe, DE
Markus Wilhelm Marquart · Unterschleißheim, DE
Bernhard Mumm · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 7, 1997
Grant date	May 8, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 7, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S7/52025
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The ultrasound imaging system and method of the present invention defines the gray-scale value and other parameters for each of a plurality of image elements in an output volume by determining all of the image information in the scanning planes that is contained within a defined portion of the output volume (which contains the image element) and thereafter simultaneously analyzing the selected image information. These steps are repeated for each of the image elements in the output volume.

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