Patent ID: 8784318

Claim:
A method of processing data for generating an ultrasound image, the method comprising the steps, carried out during an ultrasound examination, of: obtaining a set of channel data by digitizing ultrasound image data produced by an ultrasound scanner in performing an image scan; storing the set of channel data in a computer-readable storage medium, the set of stored channel data representing at least a selected image region of a frame of channel data; for the set of stored channel data, reconstructing a plurality of ultrasound images corresponding to a plurality of trial values of at least one parameter to be optimized using the same set of stored channel data in the computer-readable storage medium for each of the plurality of trial values; evaluating an image quality of the reconstructed ultrasound image for each trial value of the at least one parameter including computing one or more image focus quality parameters wherein computing one or more image focus quality parameters comprises providing a focus quality spectrum of the reconstructed ultrasound image based on the reconstructed ultrasound image for that trial value; determining the optimized value of the at least one parameter based on the evaluated image quality including determining the optimal value of the at least one parameter to be optimized by comparing the one or more image focus quality parameters; and using the optimized value in connection with processing of additional channel data.