Patent ID: 7756304
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: A61B,G01S,G16H,G16Z,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An ultrasonic imaging method comprising: (a) acquiring image data for a plurality of frames, each frame identified with a respective phase of a physiological cycle; (b) generating a first extended field of view image from image data associated with a first phase of the physiological cycle from multiple selected ones of the frames of (a) associated with the first phase of the physiological cycle and acquired from substantially co-planar, partially-overlapping spatial regions; (c) generating a second extended field of view image associated with a second phase of the physiological cycle from image data from multiple selected ones of the frames of (a) associated with the second phase of the physiological cycle and acquired from substantially co-planar, partially-overlapping spatial regions; and (d) displaying at least the first and second extended field of view images in sequence to a user.