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Aperture compounding for medical imaging

US6508770B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 8, 2001
Grant dateJan 21, 2003
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Expiry dateMar 8, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S15/8995
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Speckle is reduced by compounding data associated with different aperture positions. The data is responsive to transmission and reception along the same scan lines. The data is detected and then combined.

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