Patent ID: 8684936
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: A61B,G01S

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound imaging method, comprising: transmitting a first ultrasound pulse along a first scan line from a transmit transducer array positioned in a first acoustic window relative to a target object to be imaged; receiving echoes of the transmit pulse with a first omnidirectional receive transducer positioned in a second acoustic window, wherein the second acoustic window does not overlap the first acoustic window; storing the received echoes in a first line of computer memory; obtaining transducer position information defining a position and orientation of the transmit transducer array relative to the first omnidirectional receive transducer; retrieving the stored echoes from the first line of computer memory; and constructing a first image of the target object along the first scan line from the retrieved echoes and the transducer position information.