Framem interpolator for increasing apparent acoustic frame rate

Details Framem interpolator for increasing apparent acoustic frame rate Framem interpolator for increasing apparent acoustic frame rate

1994-11-23

1996-07-02

Manuel, George

Surgery

Truss

Pad

12866101, 73626, A61B 800

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055312241

ABSTRACT:
A method and an apparatus for increasing the apparent acoustic frame rate of ultrasound images. Frames of acoustic data are acquired at the acoustic frame rate, stored in double-buffered acoustic frame buffers and scan converted one after the other. For each pair of successive frames, the first acoustic frame is stored in a frame delay buffer while the other acoustic frame is being scan converted. In accordance with this scheme, the scan converter is always reading from an acoustic frame buffer that contains a single complete frame of acoustic data, thereby eliminating the swirl artifact. To increase the apparent acoustic frame rate, the scan-converted acoustic data is input to a scan-converted frame interpolator, which incorporates the frame delay buffer, a frame interpolator programmable read only memory (PROM) and a software-programmable inter-polator bank select look-up table. The frame interpolator PROM incorporates a two-point FIR filter which outputs a frame of interpolated scan-converted acoustic data X.sub.n ' in response to input of the scan-converted acoustic data X.sub.n and X.sub.n-1. A predetermined number of unique frames of scan-converted acoustic data X.sub.n ' can be generated from the acoustic data X.sub.n and X.sub.n-1 of a given pair of frames by changing the weighting factors at the video rate while recycling the scan-converted acoustic data of the given pair of frames.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5197037 (1993-03-01), Leavitt
patent: 5396890 (1995-03-01), Weng

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