公开(公告)号：US20120323123A1

公开(公告)日：2012-12-20

申请号：US13500527

申请日：2010-09-30

申请人： Unmin Bae ,  Donna Lynn Richmond ,  Alexey Viktorovich Cherepakhin ,  Zhaowen Yang ,  Vijay Shamdasani

发明人： Unmin Bae ,  Donna Lynn Richmond ,  Alexey Viktorovich Cherepakhin ,  Zhaowen Yang ,  Vijay Shamdasani

IPC分类号： A61B8/14

CPC分类号： G01S7/52036 ,  G01S7/52071 ,  G01S7/52073 ,  G01S15/8977

摘要： This invention relates to a method of ultrasonically imaging a region of interest that may contain anechoic and/or hypoechoic echoes.The method comprises the steps of: providing a first and a second set of ultrasound data, said two sets comprising information of the region of interest at two different instants of time respectively, determining from the first and second data sets, a temporal consistency value of at least an area of the region of interest, and producing an image indicating this area as being hypoechoic or anechoic in accordance with said temporal consistency value. Doing so, an anechoic image produced by the method of the invention emphazises the rendering of anechoic and/or hypoechoic areas over echoic ones.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种超声成像可能包含消声和/或低回声的感兴趣区域的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤：提供第一组和第二组超声数据，所述两组分别包括在两个不同时刻的感兴趣区域的信息，从第一和第二数据集确定时间一致性值 至少所述感兴趣区域的区域，并且根据所述时间一致性值产生指示该区域为低回声或消音的图像。 这样做，通过本发明的方法产生的消音图像强调了消音和/或低回声区域在回声区域上的呈现。