Patent ID: 9622724
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01S

Claim:
1. A method of ultrasound imaging with an ultrasound imaging system including a processor and a display device, the method comprising: acquiring ultrasound channel data with a probe; identifying, with the processor, a subset of the ultrasound channel data with a specular reflector signature, where the ultrasound channel data has not been beamformed during said identifying; implementing, with the processor, a specular reflector processing technique on the subset of the ultrasound channel data to calculate at least one of a position and an orientation of a specular reflector, where the ultrasound channel data has not been beamformed during said implementing; beamforming the ultrasound channel data using a summing technique to generate an ultrasound image after identifying the subset of the ultrasound channel data with the specular reflector signature; performing an action, with the processor, on the ultrasound channel data or on the ultrasound image to enhance a representation of the specular reflector in the ultrasound image based on at least one of the position and the orientation of the specular reflector.