Patent ID: 11867807
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 3:
4. The method of claim 3, wherein calculating the respective coherence metric for each receive channel and for each time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals comprises:
for a first time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals time delayed based on a first beamforming sound speed, calculating a first coherence metric for each receive channel based on a respective subset of the first time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals, each respective subset received over that receive channel and one or more adjacent receive channels; and
repeating the coherence metric calculation for each receive channel for each remaining time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals such that a coherence metric is calculated for each receive channel at each different beamforming sound speed.