Patent ID: 11931209
Assignee: IMV IMAGING (UK) LTD
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 9:
10. A method of operating an ultrasound scanner, the ultrasound scanner comprising an ultrasound probe which comprises one or more ultrasound sources and receivers, the method comprising:
the one or more ultrasound sources and receivers generating ultrasound pulses and receiving ultrasound echoes from a scan region,
processing measurements of the received ultrasound echoes to thereby calculate ultrasound measurement data, the ultrasound measurement data comprising measurements of ultrasound echoes from each of a series of scan positions in the scan region, and
processing the ultrasound measurement data, or data derived therefrom, to determine an amount of movement of the ultrasound probe, if the amount of movement of the ultrasound probe thereby detected meets at least one inactivity criterion, reducing the average rate at which ultrasound pulses are generated.