Adaptive receive aperture for ultrasound image reconstruction

Details Adaptive receive aperture for ultrasound image reconstruction Adaptive receive aperture for ultrasound image reconstruction

2005-03-15

2005-03-15

Imam, Ali (Department: 3737)

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation

C128S916000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06866632

ABSTRACT:
A method for adaptively determining reconstruction signals in an ultrasound system comprises determining a size of a receive aperture, comparing the size of receive aperture at each imaging point with a predetermined number of reconstruction channels, if the size of the receive aperture is not greater than the number of reconstruction channels, processing received echo signals for the receive aperture to produce an ultrasonic image, and if the size of the receive aperture is greater than the number of reconstruction channels, preprocessing the received echo signals to produce reconstruction signals, the number of reconstruction signals being equal to the number of reconstruction channels. The reconstruction signals are further processed to produce an ultrasonic image. In one embodiment, the receive aperture is a function of location of an imaging point in a medium under investigation.

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