Method and apparatus for ultrasound diagnostic imaging
AssigneeAloka Co., Ltd.
InventorTadashi Tamura
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of blood flow imaging is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a beamformed signal indicative of an ultrasound signal reflected from a target within a body, based upon the beamformed signal, imaging tissue within the body, generating thereby a tissue signal, based upon the beamformed signal, detecting blood flow within the body, generating thereby a blood flow signal and combining the tissue signal and the blood flow signal generating thereby a composite image of tissue and blood flow.
Claims53
A method of blood flow imaging comprising:
- receiving a beamformed signal indicative of an ultrasound signal reflected from a target within a body;
- responsive to the beamformed signal, imaging tissue within the body, generating thereby a tissue signal;
- responsive to the beamformed signal, detecting blood flow within the body, generating thereby a blood flow signal;
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- combining the tissue signal and the blood flow signal generating thereby a composite image of tissue and blood flow within the body.
A storage medium encoded with a machine-readable computer program code for processing a beamformed signal indicative of an ultrasound signal reflected from a target within a body, the storage medium including instructions for causing a beam processor to implement a method of blood flow imaging comprising:
- receiving the beamformed signal;
- responsive to the beamformed signal, imaging tissue within the body, generating thereby a tissue signal;
- responsive to the beamformed signal, detecting blood flow within the body, generating thereby a blood flow signal;
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- combining the tissue signal and the blood flow signal generating thereby a composite image of tissue and blood flow within the body.
A beam processor for blood flow imaging comprising:
- a tissue imaging system receiving a beamformed signal indicative of an ultrasound signal reflected from a target within a body generating thereby a tissue signal;
- a blood flow detection system receiving the beam formed signal generating thereby a blood flow signal;
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- a weight coefficient generator for combining the tissue signal and the blood flow signal generating thereby a composite image of tissue and blood flow within the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.