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Method and apparatus to visualize the coronary arteries using ultrasound

  • US 9,582,876 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2011
  • Issued: 02/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of ultrasound imaging, comprising:

  • placing a handheld 2D ultrasound scanner in contact with skin of a patient;

    obtaining a plurality of 2D ultrasound scans of a patient'"'"'s heart with the handheld 2D ultrasound scanner;

    filling a plurality of voxels of a 3D array with the plurality of 2D ultrasound scans;

    applying an image processing technique to classify the voxels as representing either a tubular blood-filled tissue structure or a non-tubular blood-filled tissue structure; and

    rejecting the voxels representing the non-tubular blood-filled structure.

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