Patent Document ID: 20100256495
Application ID: 12740004
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for quantitative 3D contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) analysis, comprising: acquiring ( 54 ) an initial ultrasound contrast and tissue image pair for a desired portion of a given anatomy; establishing ( 56 ) one of a region of interest (ROI) or volume of interest (VOI) in the initial acquired tissue image, wherein the corresponding tissue image becomes a baseline tissue image; automatically registering ( 58 ) the established ROI or VOI from the initial tissue image to the initial contrast image, wherein the corresponding contrast image becomes a baseline contrast image; performing quantitative analysis ( 60 ) on the ROI or VOI of the baseline contrast image; acquiring ( 62 ) a next ultrasound contrast and tissue image pair, corresponding to an i th current contrast and tissue image pair; establishing frame-to-frame registration ( 64 ) between (i) the current tissue image and (ii) the baseline tissue image; using the frame-to-frame registration ( 66 ) between the current tissue image frame and the baseline tissue image frame to transfer the ROI or VOI from (i) the baseline contrast image to (ii) the current contrast image, thereby creating a transformed ROI or VOI in the current contrast image; and performing quantitative analysis ( 68 ) on the transformed ROI or VOI of the current contrast image.