Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1997-08-22
2000-08-22
Lateef, Marvin M.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
A61B 0800
Patent
active
061064653
ABSTRACT:
An ultrasonic method and system for boundary detection of an object of interest in an ultrasound image is provided. One ultrasound imaging system that is provided acquires an ultrasound image from a subject using harmonic information and automatically generates a boundary oriented with respect to an object of interest in the ultrasound image. Another ultrasound imaging system that is provided receives a plurality of user-proposed transition positions oriented with respect to an object of interest in an ultrasound image and automatically generates a computed boundary oriented with respect to the object of interest at least partially as a function of the plurality of user-proposed transition positions. The ultrasound image used in this system can be generated with received ultrasonic energy at a fundamental frequency or at a harmonic of the fundamental frequency.
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Napolitano David J.
Wang John S.
Acuson Corporation
Lateef Marvin M.
Patel Maulin
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