Patent ID: 8079957
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. In a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for synchronized ultrasound imaging and measurement, the storage medium comprising instructions for: measuring, from ultrasound data, a parameter as a function of location, the measuring providing values of the parameter for different locations; synchronizing three-dimensional ultrasound representations with the location associated with the measured parameter such that one of the three-dimensional representations is provided for each of the values and rendered from the corresponding ultrasound data and location for the value; and displaying the measured parameter as quantities or a graph associated with the locations, the graph comprising a displayed value axis representing an increasing range of possible values and a displayed location axis where the values are plotted along the location and value axes, and the quantities comprising numbers or text; wherein synchronizing comprises generating the three-dimensional ultrasound representations associated with the measured parameter by navigating in a fly-through of an at least partially enclosed structure and rendering the three-dimensional ultrasound representations during the fly-through, the fly-through comprising rendering from different perspective locations within the at least partially enclosed structure such that a sequence provided by the three-dimensional ultrasound representations uses the different perspective locations and simulates moving through the at least partially enclosed structure, and wherein the measured parameter is measured during the fly-through as a function of the navigating.