Patent ID: 9668716
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01S,G03B,G06T

Claim:
1. An ultrasound imaging system comprising: an ultrasound probe including transducer elements configured to emit ultrasound pulses into an imaged volume that includes a heart that periodically moves during cardiac cycles body and receive ultrasound echoes reflected off of the heart, the ultrasound probe configured to acquire different first and second sets of two dimensional ultrasound frame data of the heart during periodic movement of the heart during the cardiac cycles, wherein each of the first and second sets of the two dimensional ultrasound frame data is acquired by sequentially switching back and forth between obtaining two dimensional ultrasound frame data from a first spatial zone of the heart and obtaining two dimensional ultrasound frame data from a different, non-overlapping second spatial zone of the heart, wherein all of the two dimensional ultrasound frame data in the first set are acquired from the first spatial zone of the heart and all of the two dimensional ultrasound frame data in the second set are acquired from the different, non-overlapping second spatial zone of the heart, wherein the two dimensional ultrasound frame data acquired from the first spatial zone and the two dimensional ultrasound frame data acquired from the second spatial zone for each of the first and second sets are acquired during a single cardiac cycle of the heart; at least one spatial and temporal image correlation (STIC) processor electrically coupled with the ultrasound probe, the at least one STIC processor configured to: