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

Claim 13:
14. A system, comprising:
a plurality of ultrasound transducers configured to transmit and receive ultrasound signals;
a memory storing instructions; and
a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
acquire, via the plurality of ultrasound transducers, a set of ultrasound receive channel signals;
calculate a respective set of beamforming quality metrics for each of a plurality of time-delayed sets of ultrasound receive channel signals, where each time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals is time-delayed from the set of ultrasound receive channel signals based on a different beamforming sound speed;
generate an ultrasound image from selected time-delayed ultrasound receive channel signals of the plurality of time-delayed ultrasound receive channel signals based on each respective set of beamforming quality metrics.