Patent ID: 9704240
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01S,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for producing high definition intravascular images comprising: an intravascular imaging catheter assembly configured to generate a raw frame of imaging information that includes a raw set of vectors, with each vector of the raw set of vectors comprising a raw set of data points; and an imaging engine coupled to the intravascular imaging catheter assembly and being configured to receive the raw frame of imaging information from the intravascular imaging catheter assembly and to produce an enhanced frame of imaging information that includes an enhanced set of vectors, the imaging engine comprising: (a) a coherence filter configured to (b) an envelope detection module comprising a plurality of envelope detectors arranged in parallel and configured to generate a second set of vectors based on comparisons of data points within each first set of data points with one another, wherein (c) a spatial filter configured to (d) an image generator configured to generate an image based on the enhanced frame of imaging information.