Patent ID: 7119810
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A graphics processing unit system for diagnostic medical ultrasound imaging, the system comprising: a graphics processing unit having an input, at least one of a vertex processor and a fragment processor, and at least one output, the graphics processing unit operable to process first ultrasound data from the input; and a processor connected with the at least one output, the processor operable to process second ultrasound data output on the at least one output of the graphics processing unit; further comprising an ultrasound data path beginning at a beamformer and ending at a display wherein the graphics processing unit implements at least a part of a first ultrasound process selected from the group of: receive beamformation, scan conversion, motion detection and combinations thereof and the processor implements at least a part of a second ultrasound process selected from the group of: detection, motion tracking, filtering, scan conversion, and combinations thereof.