Patent ID: 7706586

Claim:
A method for processing ultrasonic data, the method comprising: using a processor to implement a suppression structure generator; displaying a first image by said suppression structure generator, said first image being three-dimensional; allowing a user to interact with said first three-dimensional image to form a suppression structure, said suppression structure being three-dimensional; generating, by said suppression structure generator, a suppression volume representation from said suppression structure, said suppression volume representation being three-dimensional; receiving a plurality of datasets, said datasets being three-dimensional, and said datasets being representative of an ultrasonically scanned volume; and automatically applying in real-time said suppression volume representation to remove a suppression volume from each of said plurality of datasets to form a plurality of filtered datasets, wherein at least two of said plurality of filtered datasets are sequenceable to form a data stream, said data stream being four-dimensional.