Doppler ultrasound imaging
AssigneeB-K Medical Aps
InventorsBO MARTINS, John Joseph Antol, Claus Brøchner Nielsen
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Abstract
An ultrasound imaging system includes a vector flow imaging processor that processes ultrasound data representing structure flowing through a tubular object and generates vector flow imaging information for a region of interest of the tubular object that is indicative of the structure flowing through a tubular object based thereon and processing circuitry that determines at least one parameter for Doppler imaging based on the vector flow imaging information.
Claims39
An ultrasound system, comprising:
- a vector flow imaging processor that processes ultrasound data representing structure flowing through a tubular object and generates vector flow imaging information for a region of interest of the tubular object that is indicative of the structure flowing through a tubular object based thereon;
- and
- processing circuitry that determines at least one parameter for Doppler imaging based on the vector flow imaging information.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining vector flow imaging information for a region of interest of a tubular object that is indicative of structure flowing through the tubular object based on ultrasound data representing the structure flowing through the tubular object, and
- determining a Doppler gate location in the region of interest based on the vector flow imaging information.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining vector flow imaging information for a region of interest of a tubular object that is indicative of structure flowing through the tubular object based on ultrasound data representing the structure flowing through the tubular object, and
- determining a volume flow rate parameter value for flowing structure within a Doppler gate based on the vector flow imaging information.
A method for conducting a vascular Doppler study using single hand operation, comprising:
- receiving an input indicative of actuation of a physical control by an object carrying a transducer array for the vascular Doppler study;
- and
- activating both Doppler gate placement and image or image sequence and measurement capture in response to receiving the input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.