Patent ID: 7993273

Claim:
A method for setting parameters for contrast agent medical imaging, the method comprising: (a) setting a transmit level; and (b) automatically selecting a setting for at least one contrast agent imaging parameter as a function of the transmit level and in response to the setting of the transmit level, the at least one contrast agent imaging parameter being selected from the group of: transmit sequence, detection technique, transmit modulation frequency, transmit bandwidth, transmit coding, number of transmit foci per scan line, number of transmit pulses per scan line, number of transmitted lines per image, time between transmissions, velocity scale, reverberation-suppression pulses, receive bandwidth, receive demodulation frequency and combinations thereof; and imaging contrast agents as a function of the setting for the at least one contrast agent imaging parameter; wherein (b) comprises automatically selecting the setting of the transmit sequence, the transmit sequence including a number of pulses, a phase of pulses and an amplitude of pulses.