Patent ID: 9517046
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, with a transducer array of an ultrasound imaging system, a set of echoes generated in response to an ultrasound signal traversing a flowing structure in a field of view; beamforming, with a beamformer, the set of echoes, generating a beamformed signal; basebanding, averaging and decimating, with a pre-processor, the beamformed signal; determining, via a processor, an autocorrelation of the basebanded, averaged and decimated beamformed signal; and generating, with a processor, an axial velocity component signal and a lateral velocity component signal based on the autocorrelation, wherein the axial and lateral velocity components indicate a direction and a speed of the flowing structure in the field of view.