Patent ID: 8858443

Claim:
An ultrasound medical imaging system for adaptively acquiring anatomical images, comprising: an ultrasound image acquisition device to acquire anatomical images of a portion of patient anatomy in response to a heart rate related synchronization signal, said ultrasound image acquisition device including a plurality ultrasound transducers to generate sound waves, said plurality of ultrasound transducers being arranged in different transducer groups each comprising a plurality of the ultrasound transducers configured at different angle orientations in increments in a range of 0 to 360 degrees around the ultrasound image acquisition device to enable 360 degree acquisition of different ultrasound imaging information at a same particular time within a same heart cycle to generate a single composite ultrasound image without a need to move the ultrasound image acquisition device; a synchronization processor for deriving said synchronization signal from a combination of at least one hemodynamic signal representative of a patient cardiac function blood flow related parameter and other patient monitoring signals, said synchronization signal enabling adaptive activation of a particular group of said different transducer groups for acquisition ultrasound imaging information at the same particular time within a same heart cycle to generate said single composite ultrasound image, wherein said synchronization processor provides a heart-rate related synchronization signal derived from said at least one hemodynamic signal representative of a patient cardiac function blood flow related parameter and other patient monitoring signals including an ECG (electrocardiogram) or ICEG (intra-cardiac electrogram) signal and a first group of said different transducer groups is activated in response to said at least one hemodynamic signal representative of a blood flow related parameter and a second group of said different transducer groups is activated in response to said ECG or ICEG signal; and a display processor for presenting said single composite ultrasound image, acquired by said ultrasound image acquisition device, to a user on a reproduction device.