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    • 3. 发明申请
    • Method and apparatus for providing real-time calculation and display of tissue deformation in ultrasound imaging
    • US20050203390A1
    • 2005-09-15
    • US10705087
    • 2003-11-10
    • Hans TorpBjorn OlstadAndreas HeimdalSteinar Bjaerum
    • Hans TorpBjorn OlstadAndreas HeimdalSteinar Bjaerum
    • A61B8/13A61B5/0456A61B8/08G01S7/52G01S15/58G01S15/89A61B8/00
    • A61B8/485A61B5/0456A61B5/7239A61B8/488A61B8/543G01S7/52036G01S7/52038G01S7/52042G01S7/52057G01S7/52085G01S7/52095G01S15/584G01S15/8979
    • An ultrasound system and method for calculation and display of tissue deformation parameters are disclosed. An ultrasound acquisition technique that allows a high frame rate in tissue velocity imaging or strain rate imaging is employed. With this acquisition technique the same ultrasound pulses are used for the tissue image and the Doppler based image. A sliding window technique is used for processing. The tissue deformation parameter strain is also determined by an accumulation of strain rate estimates for consecutive frames over an interval. The interval may be a triggered interval generated by, for example, an R-wave in an ECG trace. The strain calculation may be improved by moving the sample volume from which the strain rate is accumulated from frame-to-frame according to the relative displacement of the tissue within the original sample volume. The relative displacement of the tissue is determined by the instantaneous tissue velocity of the sample volume. An estimation of strain rate based upon a spatial derivative of tissue velocity is improved by adaptively varying the spatial offset, dr. The spatial offset, dr, can be maximized to cover the entire tissue segment (e.g., heart wall width) while still keeping both of the sample volumes at each end of the offset within the tissue segment. This may be accomplished by determining whether various parameters (e.g., grayscale value, absolute power estimate, magnitude of the autocorrelation function with unity temporal lag and/or magnitude of strain correlation) of the sample volumes within in the spatial offset are above a given threshold. Strain rate may be estimated using a generalized strain rate estimator that is based on a weighted sum of two-sample strain rate estimators with different spatial offsets. The weights are proportional to the magnitude of the strain rate correlation estimate for each spatial offset, and thus reduce the effect of noisy, i.e. poorly correlated, samples. An improved signal correlation estimator that uses a spatial lag in addition to the usual temporal lag is disclosed. The spatial lag is found from the tissue velocity. The improved signal correlation estimator can be utilized both in the estimation of strain rate and tissue velocity. Tissue velocity may be estimated in a manner that reduces aliasing while maintaining spatial resolution. Three copies of a received ultrasound signal are bandpass filtered at three center frequencies. The middle of the three center frequencies is centered at the second harmonic of the ultrasound signal. A reference tissue velocity is estimated from the two signals filtered at the outside center frequencies. The reference tissue velocity is used to choose a tissue velocity from a number of tissue velocities estimated from the signal centered at the second harmonic. A method to estimate the strain rate in any direction, not necessarily along the ultrasound beam, based on tissue velocity data from a small region of interest around a sample volume is disclosed. Quantitative tissue deformation parameters, such as tissue velocity, tissue velocity integrals, strain rate and/or strain, may be presented as functions of time and/or spatial position for applications such as stress echo. For example, strain rate or strain values for three different stress levels may be plotted together with respect to time over a cardiac cycle. Parameters which are derived from strain rate or strain velocity, such as peak systolic wall thickening percentage, may be plotted with respect to various stress levels,
    • 4. 发明授权
    • Real-time display of ultrasound in slow motion
    • 实时显示超声波在慢动作
    • US06350238B1
    • 2002-02-26
    • US09432060
    • 1999-11-02
    • Bjorn OlstadHans Torp
    • Bjorn OlstadHans Torp
    • A61B800
    • A61B8/543A61B5/0456A61B8/00A61B8/06A61B8/13A61B8/463G01S7/52034G01S7/52074G01S7/52085G01S15/899G03B42/06
    • A system and method for acquiring ultrasound information at an acquisition rate and displaying at least a portion of the acquired ultrasound information at a display rate that is slower than the acquisition rate is disclosed. Ultrasound information may be continuously acquired and stored at a frame-rate that is greater than the perception rate of the human eye. At least a portion of the acquired ultrasound information is displayed at a frame-rate that allows human perception. Acquisition and display are synchronized from time-to-time upon satisfaction of a synchronization condition. The synchronization condition may be related to a predetermined time interval or a triggering event generated by or through triggering generated by, for example, a physiological event detected in, for example, an ECG trace. Acquired ultrasound information is, thus, displayed in a real-time slow motion manner that maintains real-time synchrony and yet provides a display rate that is lower than the acquisition rate and preferably lower than the maximum perception rate of the human eye.
    • 公开了一种用于以获取速率获取超声信息并且以比获取速率慢的显示速率显示所获取的超声信息的至少一部分的系统和方法。 超声信息可以以比人眼的感知速率大的帧速率连续地获取和存储。 获取的超声信息的至少一部分以允许人感知的帧速率显示。 获取和显示在满足同步条件时不时地同步。 同步条件可以与由例如由ECG轨迹中检测到的生理事件产生的或由触发产生的预定时间间隔或触发事件有关。 因此,获取的超声信息以实时慢动作方式显示,其保持实时同步,并且提供低于获取速率的显示速率,并且优选地低于人眼的最大感知速率。