Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for correcting ultrasound images by using interest index map
- Patent Title (中): 使用兴趣指数图校正超声图像的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13482520Application Date: 2012-05-29
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Publication No.: US09295452B2Publication Date: 2016-03-29
- Inventor: Yoon-chang Lee , Kurt Sandstrom
- Applicant: Yoon-chang Lee , Kurt Sandstrom
- Applicant Address: KR Gangwon-do
- Assignee: Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gangwon-do
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: KR10-2011-0127229 20111130
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; A61B8/08 ; G01S7/52

Abstract:
A method of correcting ultrasound images, the method including the operations of, by an ultrasound output unit, outputting an ultrasound signal to a target object; obtaining an mechanical index (MI) map indicating a correlation between depth values according to a travel direction of the ultrasound signal, and MI values by the ultrasound signal; and adjusting a gain value of an ultrasound echo signal corresponding to the ultrasound signal by using a reverse MI map that is obtained by reversing the MI map, so as to allow the MI values, which are displayed on the MI map, to be a virtually constant MI value with respect to the depth values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130137982A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING ULTRASOUND IMAGES BY USING INTEREST INDEX MAP Public/Granted day:2013-05-30
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