Medical ultrasonic imaging method with improved ultrasonic contrast agent specificity
US6436041B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 22, 2000 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S7/52038
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An improved method for suppressing fundamental or desired harmonic orders in an ultrasonic medical imaging system transmits at least one reverberation-suppression pulse prior to the transmission of a multiple-pulse sequence. Receive signals associated with the pulses of the multiple-pulse sequence are acquired and combined using receive weights selected to suppress energy at either the fundamental or a desired harmonic of the fundamental.
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