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Targeted contrast agent imaging with medical diagnostic ultrasound

  • US 7,713,209 B2
  • Filed: 05/21/2007
  • Issued: 05/11/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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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;

    tracking relative position between at least first and second ultrasound frames of data of the sequence;

    detecting substantially stationary contrast agents from the sequence as a function of the tracking and a consistency of response; and

    spatially aligning the first and second ultrasound frames of data as a function of the tracking;

    wherein detecting comprises identifying contrast agents in a substantially same location in a majority of spatially aligned ultrasound frames of data.

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