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US 2003/0195422 A1Published application
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging with elevation biplane images
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsJanice Frisa, McKee Dunn Poland
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Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is described in which two planes of a volumetric region which are in different elevation planes are scanned in real time. In one embodiment the two planes are scanned in the sector format with a common apex, causing corresponding depths of the two images to be separated by the same distance in elevation. In another embodiment one image plane has a fixed orientation with respect to the imaging probe and the location of the other image plane can be adjusted by the user.
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An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system comprising:
- a two dimensional array transducer which transmits beams in different directions in a volumetric region;
- a beamformer coupled to the two dimensional array transducer;
- a beamformer controller, coupled to the beamformer, which causes the array transducer to scan two image planes located in different elevation planes with respect to each other;
- a scan converter, coupled to the beamformer, which produces real time images of the two image planes;
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- a display, coupled to the scan converter, which displays the two real time images.
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