Patent ID: 9433398
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S,G10K

Claim Text:
1. An ultrasonic imaging system for use with an ultrasonic transducer array, the ultrasonic transducer array including transducer elements arranged in a two-dimensional array defining a transducer plane and configured to insonify a tissue region with ultrasonic energy, the system comprising a processor circuit configured to: obtain, from the ultrasonic transducer array, information indicative of the reflected ultrasonic energy, including obtaining complex samples of the reflected ultrasonic energy; and construct a representation of an imaging plane, within the tissue region, including using the obtained information indicative of the reflected ultrasonic energy including: separately determining, for the specified focusing location in the imaging plane, a second sum of at least some the respective first sums of complex samples of reflected ultrasonic energy, the second sum corresponding to a second line of transducers in the ultrasonic transducer array, the second line of transducers aligned along an axis different from an axis of the respective first lines in the transducer plane and corresponding to the orthogonal projection of the specified focusing location in the imaging plane onto the transducer plane;