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ULTRASOUND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VESSEL IDENTIFICATION

  • US 20180014810A1
  • Filed: 03/31/2016
  • Published: 01/18/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An ultrasound system for identifying a vessel of a subject, comprising:

  • an ultrasound probe configured to simultaneously acquire a sequence of ultrasound blood flow data frames and a sequence of ultrasound B-mode data frames of a region of interest including the vessel over a predetermined time period;

    a blood flow region selecting unit configured to detect a blood flow region in each frame of multiple frames in the sequence of ultrasound blood flow data frame, and to select a blood flow region among the detected blood flow regions; and

    a vessel segmenting unit configured to segment the vessel in at least one frame of the sequence of ultrasound B-mode data frames based on the selected blood flow region, the at least one frame comprising the ultrasound B-mode data frame temporally corresponding to the ultrasound blood flow data frame in which the selected blood flow region is detected.

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