Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Devices, systems, and methods for multimodal ultrasound imaging
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Application No.: US16566398Application Date: 2019-09-10
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Publication No.: US11647989B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: David Hope Simpson , Andrew Hancock , Jun Seob Shin , Seungsoo Kim , Jean-luc Francois-Marie Robert , Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Main IPC: A61B8/06
- IPC: A61B8/06 ; G01S15/89 ; G01S7/52 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B8/12 ; A61B8/00

Abstract:
Improved ultrasound imaging devices and methods of using the devices are provided. An intraluminal imaging device is configured process imaging data obtained using a single imaging sequence in different processing paths to generate B-mode and flow images. For example, an ultrasound imaging system includes an ultrasound imaging device comprising an array of acoustic elements and a processor in communication with the array. The processor activates the array of acoustic elements to acquire ultrasound data using a sequence of transmit-receive pairs, generates a B-mode image using the acquired ultrasound data, forms a plurality of sub-apertures comprising a portion of the transmit-receive pairs, groups the sub-apertures into temporally-spaced ensembles, determines a flow estimate based on a comparison of at least one of sub-apertures within an ensemble, ensembles within an aperture, or different apertures, and outputs a graphical representation of the B-mode image and the flow estimate to a display.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200077985A1 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING Public/Granted day:2020-03-12
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