Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1994-06-03
1995-07-04
Jaworski, Francis
Surgery
Truss
Pad
A61B 806
Patent
active
054291372
ABSTRACT:
An ultrasound pulsed Doppler system detects Doppler-shifted acoustic pulses reflected from moving material in a body and received by a transducer, and displays the velocity field of the material on a screen in a color flow format together with the black-and-white display of the ultrasound B-mode of the body. The system detects the average velocity of the material at a plurality of localized sample regions in the body by determining the complex correlation function for pairs of reflected signals from each sample region that are received by the transducer, where the complex phase of the correlation function is proportional to the velocity of the material, projected along the ray from the sample region to the transducer. The display constitutes an array of pixels, and the system determines a value at each pixel that represents the velocity for the material at the location imaged by the pixel. These velocity values are determined by selecting, for each pixel, a plurality of sample regions having images neighboring the pixel, and interpolating separately the real and imaginary parts of the complex correlation value from these sample regions. These interpolated complex correlation function values are used to determine the velocity value for the pixel. The interpolation is carried out using a 2.times.4 kernel, with 2-point interpolation along the dimension of the ray and 4-point interpolation along the perpendicular azimuthal dimension. In a further improvement, the system also displays the flow turbulence field in a color flow format by determining the average power in the reflected signals from each sample region, interpolating these values to obtain a pixel power value, and using this value and the magnitude of the complex correlation function value to obtain a turbulence estimate value.
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Banjanin Zoran B.
Kim Jin
Phelps Robert N.
Jaworski Francis
Siemens Medical Systems Inc.
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