Patent ID: 9254116
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S

Claim Text:
1. A method of creating an ultrasound image comprising: receiving a return signal from a time delayed signal emitted from a plurality of transducer elements at a target, wherein the return signal comprising a measurement at each of the plurality of transducer elements formed from a plurality of reflections off of a plurality of volume elements forming a two dimensional slice of a target; computing a Van-Cittert Zernike (VCZ) curve for each of the plurality of volume elements based upon the measured return signals; and creating a short-lag spatial coherence (SLSC) image, the SLSC image being an image based on at least one metric derived from at least a portion of the computed VCZ curves for the plurality of volume elements, the SLSC image comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels is associated with one of the plurality of volume elements, and wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises a value computed from the at least one metric derived from the at least one portion of the respective VCZ curve computed for the volume element associated with the pixel.