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Segmented 3-D cardiac ultrasound imaging method and apparatus

  • US 5,993,390 A
  • Filed: 09/18/1998
  • Issued: 11/30/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for medical ultrasound imaging, comprising the stepsa) acquiring ultrasound image data representative of three-dimensional volume segments of an image volume of interest in a patient in synchronism with corresponding cardiac cycles of the patient, each of said volume segments containing image data distributed in three dimensions, wherein image data representative of a volume segment is acquired during a single cardiac cycle of the patient;

  • andb) combining the image data representative of said volume segments to provide image data representative of a three-dimensional ultrasound image of the image volume.

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