High resolution ultrasonic imaging through interpolation of rece

Details High resolution ultrasonic imaging through interpolation of rece High resolution ultrasonic imaging through interpolation of rece

1997-02-13

1999-08-17

Chin, Tommy P.

Television

Responsive to nonvisible energy

Sonic or ultrasonic

600447, 600445, H04N 531

Patent

active

059401230

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are provided for interpolating image lines from ultrasonically obtained scanlines of an image region. The interpolated lines are preferably formed one-quarter and three-quarters of the distance between each pair of received scanlines by combining weighted samples of the adjacent scanlines in proportion to their distances from the interpolated lines. The received scanlines are preferably formed by a beamformer which samples the received lines at quadrature phases of the scanhead center frequency and filters the samples by combining successive samples of a related phase. The image lines are scan converted by computing a grid of weighted values between each pair of image lines, and using the closest value for each pixel in the ultrasound image.

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