101. Real time display of an ultrasonic compound image
- Author
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Pierre-Andre Dr Grandchamp, Rainer Fehr, and Peter Krummenacher
- Subjects
Set (abstract data type) ,Real time display ,Acoustics and Ultrasonics ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Image processing ,Computer vision ,Ultrasonic sensor ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Image (mathematics) - Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing a compound ultrasound cross-sectional picture of a body, in which method a plurality of partially overlapping body scans are carried out line-wise by the pulse-echo method in one scanning plane, thereby producing image signals in digital form corresponding to the received echoes. For the real-time display of the compound cross-sectional pictures, the set of image signals produced with each scan is stored in a separate digital storage unit, at least some of the stored sets of image signals are immediately combined with one another to generate a new set of image signals corresponding to a compound real-time cross-sectional picture, and the new set of image signals is immediately fed to a television monitor in order to display the compound real-time cross-sectional picture.
- Published
- 1989