WO2003027662A3 - Ultrasound imaging system - Google Patents

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WO2003027662A3
WO2003027662A3 PCT/US2002/030911 US0230911W WO03027662A3 WO 2003027662 A3 WO2003027662 A3 WO 2003027662A3 US 0230911 W US0230911 W US 0230911W WO 03027662 A3 WO03027662 A3 WO 03027662A3
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Xingbai He
Peter P Chang
Eric R Kischell
Alice M Chiang
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Xingbai He
Peter P Chang
Eric R Kischell
Alice M Chiang
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Abstract

The present invention is directed to an ultrasound imaging system and method for Doppler processing of data. The ultrasonic imaging system efficiently addresses the data computational and processing needs of Doppler processing. Software executable sequences in accordance with a preferred embodiment the present invention determines the phase shift and the auto-correlation phase of filtered image data. In a preferred embodiment, the system of ultrasonic imaging also includes a sequence of instructions for Doppler processing that provides the functions for demodulation, Gauss Match filtering, auto-correlation calculation, phase shift calculation, frame averaging, and scan conversion implemented with Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) or Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) instructions. In a preferred embodiment, the ultrasound imaging system of the present invention includes a processing module; and memory operable coupled to the processing module, wherein the memory stores operational instructions that cause the processing module to map serial data to vector representation, calculate an auto- correlation function of the data, calculate a phase shift of the auto-correlation function to generate a monotonic function covering all values of the phase shift corresponding to a range of Doppler velocities and display the resultant images, for example, as color images.
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