Patent ID: 9420997
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for motion artifact suppression in medical diagnostic ultrasound, the method comprising: acquiring first and second frames of ultrasound data representing flow power response from a patient; spatially correlating the first and second frames of ultrasound data, the spatially correlating providing a correlation coefficient; setting a first characteristic of a clutter filter as a function of the correlation coefficient, the first characteristic comprising a cutoff frequency, shift, or threshold, a value for the first characteristic selected with a mapping function from a value of the correlation coefficient, where the mapping function maps greater values of the correlation coefficient to greater values for the first characteristic; cluttering filtering with the clutter filter set with the first characteristic; and generating an image of the patient from an output of the clutter filtering.