Patent ID: 6863655

Claim:
In an ultrasound machine for generating an image responsive to moving structure of a subject, apparatus representing displacement of the moving structure comprising: a front-end arranged to transmit ultrasound waves into the structure and to generate received signals in response to ultrasound waves backscattered from the structure over a selected time period; a display arranged to display the image of the moving structure, wherein said display displays at least one pattern of indicia corresponding to sampled anatomical locations within the moving structure, wherein said at least one pattern of indicia comprises at least one set of tagging symbols; a user interface enabling a user of the machine to overlay the image on the display with a first pattern of indicia corresponding to sampled anatomical locations within the moving structure; and a processor responsive to the received signals to generate parameter signals representing displacement of the anatomical locations corresponding to the pattern of indicia during at least a portion of the selected time period and responsive to the parameter signals to generate a second pattern of indicia corresponding to the displacement of the anatomical locations and to overlay the second pattern of indicia on the image on the display.