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- Patent Title: Ultrafast doppler ultrasound method for estimating blood flow velocity through repetitive compounding of multi-angle plane waves
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Application No.: US17283721Application Date: 2019-12-02
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Publication No.: US12133760B2Publication Date: 2024-11-05
- Inventor: Bingbing He , Yufeng Zhang , Zhiyao Li , Hao Li , Benxian Yang , Zerong Liao
- Applicant: YUNNAN UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: CN Kunming
- Assignee: YUNNAN UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: YUNNAN UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: CN Kunming
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Nicholas Mesiti
- International Application: PCT/CN2019/122401 WO 20191202
- International Announcement: WO2021/108953 WO 20210610
- Main IPC: A61B8/06
- IPC: A61B8/06 ; A61B8/08

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides an ultrafast Doppler ultrasound method for estimating a blood flow velocity through repetitive compounding of multi-angle plane waves. The method includes: controlling an ultrasonic transducer to cyclically transmit plane waves (101) according to a sequence of deflection angles of {0, −β, β, −β}; receiving echo signals (102) of the plane waves reflected by an area to be scanned; searching for three consecutive frames of signals with deflection angles in a sequence of {0, −β, β} and {β, −β, 0} in the echo signals to obtain multiple frame groups (103); compounding the three consecutive frames of signals of each frame group to obtain a compounded radio frequency (RF) signal (105); calculating a blood flow velocity (106) according to the compounded RF signal; and performing color coding on the blood flow velocity to generate a two-dimensional (2D) blood flow velocity image (107).
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