Patent ID: 9427211
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: A61B,G01N,G01S

Claim Text:
1. A method of ultrasound imaging comprising: independently adjusting a first plane to a first orientation with respect to a second plane and a transducer array, where the second plane is disposed at a different orientation than the first plane with respect to the transducer array, wherein the second plane is in a fixed relationship with the first plane after independently adjusting the first plane to the first orientation; acquiring multi-plane data with the transducer array after independently adjusting the first plane to the first orientation, the multi-plane data including the first plane and the second plane; displaying a first image of the first plane and a second image of the second plane, where the first image is an image of the first plane acquired as part of the multi-plane data and the second image is an image of the second plane acquired as part of the multi-plane data; adjusting the first orientation of the first plane with respect to the transducer array with a user interface; automatically adjusting the second orientation of the second plane with respect to the transducer array to maintain the fixed relationship between the second plane and the first plane after said adjusting the first orientation of the first plane; acquiring additional multi-plane data of the first plane and the second plane after automatically adjusting the second orientation of the second plane with respect to the transducer array; and displaying a first updated image of the first plane and a second updated image of the second plane based on the additional multi-plane data, wherein the first updated image is of the first plane that was acquired as part of the additional multi-plane data, after said adjusting the first orientation with respect to the transducer array, and wherein the second updated image is of the second plane that was acquired as part of the additional multi-plane data after said automatically adjusting the second orientation with respect to the transducer array.