Patent ID: 6909796

Claim:
An imaging method including the following steps: emitting at least two successive pulses along the same line of view into an object body; receiving reflection (P 1 , P 2 ) or matter excitation (MR 1 , MR 2 ) signals, generated by the object body in response to said two pulses; combining together said two response signals (P 1 , P 2 ; MR 1 , MR 2 ) and transforming the combined signal into image data related to the transmission view line of the pulses emitted into the object body, characterized in that the following steps are provided: combining the response signals relating to the two successive pulses by a weight function (WEIGHT) which, by comparing corresponding samples of the two echo signals (P 1 , 22 , MR 1 , MR 2 ), assumes values in a range between a maximum value and a minimum value depending on the mutual correlation measure between said corresponding samples of the two signals; combining the weight function thereby obtained with the combination of the two echo signals (P 1 , P 2 ; MR 1 , MR 2 ) and transforming the resulting signal into image data, i.e. image points (pixels, voxels).