Patent ID: 9247927
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S,G16H

Claim Text:
1. An ultrasound system, comprising: a vector flow imaging processor that processes ultrasound data representing structure flowing through a tubular object and generates vector flow imaging information for a region of interest of the tubular object that is indicative of the structure flowing through a tubular object based thereon; a peak flow identifier that identifies a peak velocity flow within the region of interest based on the vector flow imaging information; a Doppler gate, sample volume size, steering, spectrum invert, and angle correction determiner that places a Doppler gate about the identified peak velocity flow on a displayed image representing the tubular object, wherein the image is generated from the ultrasound data; and processing circuitry that determines at least one parameter from Doppler imaging data of a region defined by the Doppler gate based on the vector flow imaging information.