CPC G01S 15/8915 (2013.01) [G10K 11/341 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |
1. A method for an ultrasound system including a plurality of ultrasound transducers each coupled to a respective receive channel, comprising:
time-delaying a set of ultrasound receive channel signals to form a plurality of time-delayed sets of ultrasound receive channel signals, each time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals time-delayed based on a different beamforming sound speed;
calculating a beamforming quality metric for each receive channel and for each time-delayed set of ultrasound receive channel signals; and
generating an ultrasound image from ultrasound receive channel signals selected from the plurality of time-delayed sets of ultrasound receive channel signals based on each beamforming quality metric.
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