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Breast ultrasound examination including scanning through chestwardly compressing membrane and processing and displaying acquired ultrasound image information

US8496586B2 · kind B2 · utility

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16Claims

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Assignee

U-SYSTEMS, INC. · US

Inventors

Wei Zhang · Jingwei, CN
Jiayu Chen · Palo Alto, US
Thomas Neff · Newark, US
Michael E. Reed · Sunnyvale, US
Jeanine M. Rader · Rockford, US
Douglas G. Summers · Palo Alto, US
Shih-Ping Wang · Los Altos, US
Tor C. Anderson · Los Gatos, US
Zengpin Yu · Palo Alto, US
Tommy Earl Cupples · Columbia, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 14, 2010
Grant date	Jul 30, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 30, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B8/565
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Navigation among breast ultrasound volumes derived from different volumetric ultrasonic scans of a same breast is described. On a display of a breast ultrasound workstation, a first image derived from a first ultrasonic volume is displayed. A user election of a source region of interest (ROI) in the first image is received. A destination ROI within a second ultrasonic volume is identified that at least roughly corresponds to a same locality of tissue in the breast as the source ROI. A second image derived from the second ultrasonic volume and including the destination ROI is displayed, the destination ROI being highlighted.

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