Inventors:
- Palo Alto CA, US
You Leo Li - Stanford CA, US
International Classification:
A61B 8/06
G01N 29/02
A61B 8/14
A61B 8/00
A61B 8/08
Abstract:
Acoustic imaging based on angular coherence is provided. The target is insonified with collimated acoustic beams at several different incidence angles. The resulting images are processed to determine angular coherence averaged over angle, and then integration of the angular coherence for relatively small angular differences is used to provide the output angular coherence image. In cases where flow imaging is done, the images are first filtered to suppress signals from stationary features of the target, multiple acquisitions are acquired, and the final flow image is computed by summing the squares of the angular coherence images (on a pixel by pixel basis).
