Patent ID: 9320496
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for volumetric quantification in medical diagnostic ultrasound, the method comprising: acquiring B-mode and flow ultrasound data representing a volume of a patient at a substantially same time; identifying at least two regions of interest in the volume, the at least two regions of interest being flow regions for the flow ultrasound data after thresholding the identifying being a function of both B-mode and flow data, the at least two regions of interest being for different spaced apart structures of the patient; segmenting a distributed flow structure having a three-dimensional contour of a surface defined by a range of velocities in each of the at least two regions of interest, the range of velocities being for the flow ultrasound data after thresholding; spatially filtering the surface; and calculating a flow quantity value as a function of the spatially filtered flow structure for more than one of the at least two regions of interest.