SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REDUCING ULTRASONIC SPECKLE USING HARMONIC COMPOUNDING

摘要

Systems and methods provided herein relate to an image processing system. The image processing system may include a beamformer module structured to receive channel data from each of at least three firings; and, a synthesis module communicably coupled to the beamformer module, the synthesis module may be structured to: combine channel data corresponding to two inverted firings to isolate a harmonic component; combine channel data from one of the two inverted firings with channel data from a third firing to isolate a fundamental component; and, combine the fundamental component with the harmonic component incoherently.

主权项

1. An ultrasound machine, comprising:
an image acquisition device structured to acquire image data corresponding to an object of interest, wherein the image data includes channel data corresponding to each of at least three firings from the image acquisition device, and wherein the image data includes a fundamental component and a harmonic component; an image processing system communicably coupled to the image acquisition device, the image processing system structured to isolate the fundamental component from the harmonic component by summing channel data from a set of firings in the at least three firings and subsequently combining the isolated fundamental and harmonic components; and an image output device structured to provide an ultrasound image from the combined harmonic and fundamental components.