Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adaptive image filtering in an ultrasound imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 超声成像设备中的自适应图像滤波
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Application No.: US12274269Application Date: 2008-11-19
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Publication No.: US08282552B2Publication Date: 2012-10-09
- Inventor: Jae Keun Lee , Suk Jin Lee
- Applicant: Jae Keun Lee , Suk Jin Lee
- Applicant Address: KR Kangwon-do
- Assignee: Medison Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Medison Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Kangwon-do
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: KR10-2007-0118600 20071120
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging device. The ultrasound imaging device includes: a data acquiring unit for acquiring 3-dimensional ultrasound image data based on receive signals formed based on ultrasound echoes reflected from a target object; a filtering unit for determining a size of a filtering mask of a filter, said size being adaptively determined according to an amount of the 3-dimensional ultrasound image data in data acquisition directions, the filtering unit being further configured to filter the 3-dimensional ultrasound image data by using the filtering mask; a scan converting unit for scan-converting the filtered 3-dimensional ultrasound image data; and a 3-dimensional rendering unit for performing 3-dimensional rendering upon the scan-converted 3-dimensional ultrasound image data to form a 3-dimensional ultrasound image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090131787A1 Adaptive Image Filtering In An Ultrasound Imaging Device Public/Granted day:2009-05-21
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