Method for generating anatomical M-mode displays
AssigneeVingmed Sound A/S
InventorsBjorn Olstad, Eivind Holm, James Ashman
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Abstract
A method for generating anatomical M-Mode displays for ultrasonic investigation of living biological structures during movement of the structure, for example a heart function, employing an ultrasonic transducer (21) comprises the acquisition of a time series of 2D or 3D ultrasonic images (22), arranging said time series so as to constitute data sets, providing at least one virtual M-Mode line (23) co-registered with said data sets, subjecting said data sets to computer processing on the basis of said at least one virtual M-Mode line, whereby interpolation along said at least one virtual M-Mode line is effected, and displaying the resulting computed anatomical M-Mode display (24) on a display unit.
Claims19
A method for generating anatomical M-Mode displays in ultrasonic investigation of living biological structures during movement employing an ultrasonic transducer the method comprising the steps of:
- acquiring a time series of ultrasonic images;
- arranging said time series so as to constitute data sets obtained by multiple ultrasound beams;
- providing at least one virtual M-Mode line positioned in relationship to said data sets so as not to coincide with any ultrasonic beam direction of said transducer;
- subjecting said data sets to computer processing on the basis of said at least one virtual M-Mode line, whereby interpolation along said at least one virtual M-Mode line is effected using values from said multiple ultrasound beams;
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- displaying the resulting computed anatomical M-Mode display on a display unit.
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