SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION OF THE BREAST

摘要

The invention provides a system and method for limited view ultrasound imaging of a 2D section or a 3D volume of a body part. Ultrasound sensors configured are spatially or temporally arrayed in a limited view circular arc or over at least part of a concave surface such as a hemisphere. A processor calculates from detected ultrasound radiation a beam forming (BF) functional and calculates from the free amplitudes a point spread function (PSF). A filter g(k) is calculated from the Fourier transform H BF (k) of the PSF that is used to generate an image of the 2D section or the 3D volume of the body part.