Patent ID: 11965960

Abstract:
The ultrasound imaging apparatus provided to quantify the degree of flash artifacts based on an ultrasound echo signal, and to notify a user of an image section with a severe flash artifact includes: a probe configured to irradiate an ultrasound signal to an object and receive an ultrasound echo signal reflected from the object; an image processor configured to obtain a color Doppler signal from which a clutter signal has been completely or partially removed by filtering the ultrasound echo signal, obtain a plurality of consecutive Doppler image frames based on the color Doppler signal and generate a Doppler image based on the plurality of consecutive Doppler image frames; a display configured to output the Doppler image; and a controller configured to calculate a flash artifact score of each of the plurality of consecutive Doppler image frames based on the ultrasound echo signal, generate timeline corresponding to the plurality of consecutive Doppler image frames and control the display so that the flash artifact score of each of the plurality of consecutive Doppler image frames appear on the timeline.