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Synchronized combining for contrast agent enhanced medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging

  • US 20090187106A1
  • Filed: 01/23/2008
  • Published: 07/23/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for contrast agent enhanced medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging, the method comprising:

  • generating a sequence of ultrasound frames of data representing, at least in part, information from contrast agents, the sequence being over a plurality of heart cycles;

    selecting a first subset of the sequence, the first subset being ultrasound frames of data corresponding to a substantially same phase of the heart cycle;

    correcting for motion between the ultrasound frames of data of the first subset corresponding to the substantially same phase of the heart cycle; and

    forming an image as a function of the motion corrected ultrasound frames of data of the first subset, the image representing, at least in part, the information from contrast agents at the phase of the heart cycle.

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