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Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging methods for extended field of view

  • US 6,364,835 B1
  • Filed: 03/27/2000
  • Issued: 04/02/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A medical diagnostic ultrasound method for forming an extended field of view of a target, the method comprising the acts of:

  • (a) selecting first and second medical ultrasonic images, the first and second images partially overlapping;

    (b) compounding the first image with the second image in an overlapping region in response to a finite impulse response function; and

    (c) generating an extended field of view image responsive to (b);

    wherein at least a portion of the extended field of view image corresponding to the overlapping region is free of recursive compounding.

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