System for reducing speckle in full motion ultrasound image data

Details System for reducing speckle in full motion ultrasound image data System for reducing speckle in full motion ultrasound image data

1999-03-04

2000-07-11

Jaworski, Francis J.

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation

600447, 600454, A61B 800

Patent

active

060865377

ABSTRACT:
Speckle is reduced in full motion ultrasound image data representing anatomic structures which have periodic physiological motion. Echoes produced from transmission of ultrasound energy into a subject's body are processed by an image frame acquisition device to produce a series of image frames for each physiologic cycle. Each image frame comprises data representing an image of a portion of the subject's body at a given time within the cycle. Successive image frames obtained at the same point in time within each physiologic cycle are filtered. The filtering is applied to each image frame within the entire current physiologic cycle, thereby deriving full motion speckle-reduced image data.

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