An ultrasound system 1 includes an ultrasound probe 2 and an image display device 3. The ultrasound probe 2 includes a transducer array 11, a transmitting and receiving unit 14 that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves using the transducer array 11 to generate a sound ray signal; a frame image information data generation unit 20 that generates frame image information data from the sound ray signal; and a wireless communication unit 19 that transmits a plurality of frame image information data items to the image display device. The image display device 3 includes a frame type determination unit 33 that determines frame types of the plurality of frame image information data items, a combination determination unit 34 that determines whether or not to combine the frame image information data items on the basis of the frame types, a compound image data generation unit 35 that combines the plurality of frame image information data items, and a display unit 37 that displays a compound image.

System and method of ultrasound imaging methodology are provided. The system and method can include directing an array to transmit sets of cascaded titled ultrasound waves towards a tissue sample, decoding reflected signals through summing, subtracting, and delay operations. The reflected signals can be reconstructed to provide a final decoded output.

The invention relates to a device and an according method for hybrid optoacoustic and ultrasonographic imaging of an object (1), comprising an irradiation unit (2, 3) for irradiating the object (1) with electromagnetic radiation, in particular light, and a transducer unit (4) comprising a plurality of transducer elements (5), the transducer elements (5) being configured to emit ultrasound waves impinging on the object (1) and to detect ultrasound waves which are reflected and/or transmitted by the object (1) upon impinging on the object (1), and to detect ultrasound waves which are generated in the object (1) upon irradiation with electromagnetic radiation, wherein the transducer elements (1) are arranged along a curved line, in particular a concave line, or a curved surface, in particular a concave surface.

An apparatus includes a memory device with computer readable instructions and a processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions encoded on the memory device. The processor, in response to executing the computer readable instructions, obtains an ensemble of ultrasound images with diversity in an ensemble dimension, extracts a sub-set of data from each of the images, constructs a data matrix with the extracted data, wherein the data matrix has a dimension of space versus the ensemble dimension, identifies a largest eigenvalue(s) and a corresponding eigenvector(s) in the data matrix, computes a coherent signal projection matrix with the identified corresponding eigenvector(s), filters the data matrix with the coherent signal projection, and generates an ultrasound image with the filtered data matrix.

The present invention provides an ultrasound imaging spatial compounding method and system. The method includes: setting receive lines at different deflection angles in a position of a transmitted beam where each scanning is performed; obtaining the receive lines at the different angles through beamforming; after all positions are scanned, enabling the receive lines at the same deflection angle to form a frame of image at the angle, using one of a plurality of frames of image at the different deflection angles as a basic image, and transforming the remaining frames of image except the basic image into images having the same coordinate system as the basic image; and performing spatial compounding on the plurality of frames of image in the same coordinate system to obtain a compound image for output. The present invention does not affect the temporal resolution of imaging, thereby avoiding image lagging and trailing phenomena.

An ultrasound diagnostic device including a transmitter and a delay-and-sum unit. The transmitter selects a tertiary transducer array that coincides in an azimuth direction with a transmission focal point, two partial primary transducer arrays that sandwich the tertiary transducer array in the azimuth direction, and two secondary transducer arrays that sandwich the tertiary and partial primary transducer arrays in the azimuth direction, and causes transmission from the tertiary and secondary transducer arrays of an ultrasound beam with a larger signal intensity in a high frequency band than that transmitted from the partial primary transducer arrays. The delay-and-sum unit sets calculation target areas that have different positions in the azimuth direction, and executes delay-and-sum processing with respect to each of the calculation target areas to generate acoustic line signal frame data.

There is provided an acoustic wave image generating apparatus and method capable of obtaining an image with good visibility of a needle. In a case where ultrasound waves having an intensity distribution centered on a first direction are transmitted to a subject, ultrasound echoes return from the subject. Ultrasound echo data indicating the ultrasound echoes are phased and added along lines in virtual reception directions. As the ultrasound transducers transmitting ultrasound waves are updated, a plurality of first ultrasound images are obtained. Since the ultrasound images having various angles can be obtained, an image with good visibility of a needle can be obtained in a case where the needle is inserted into the subject.

An echo processor (117) for an ultrasound imaging device (102) includes a frame processor (118) that aligns a plurality (N) of sequentially received frames of echoes based on a set of motion displacement fields for the plurality of frames and combines the aligned plurality of sequentially received frames, thereby forming a compounded frame. A method includes obtaining a set of frames of echoes acquired at different times, determining a motion displacement field based on at least two of the frames of the set, motion-compensating all of the frames of the set based on the displacement field and previously determined displacement fields, and generating a compounded frame based on the motion-compensated frames.

An ultrasonic imaging system is described in which a column-row-parallel architecture is provided at the circuit level of an ultrasonic transceiver. The ultrasonic imaging system can include a NM array of transducer elements and a plurality of transceiver circuits where each transceiver circuit is connected to a corresponding one transducer element of the NM array of transducer elements. A shared pulser gate driver and a shared VGA is provided for each row and column. Selection logic includes row select, column select, and per-element bit select. Through the column-row-parallel architecture, a variety of aperture configurations can be achieved.

A multiple aperture ultrasound imaging system may be configured to store raw, un-beamformed echo data. Stored echo data may be retrieved and re-beamformed using modified parameters in order to enhance the image or to reveal information that was not visible or not discernible in an original image. Raw echo data may also be transmitted over a network and beamformed by a remote device that is not physically proximate to the probe performing imaging. Such systems may allow physicians or other practitioners to manipulate echo data as though they were imaging the patient directly, even without the patient being present. Many unique diagnostic opportunities are made possible by such systems and methods.