US 12,245,890 B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing acquisition feedback
Shriram Sethuraman, Lexington, MA (US); Sibo Li, Waltham, MA (US); William Tao Shi, Wakefield, MA (US); James Robertson Jago, Seattle, WA (US); and Thanasis Loupas, Kirkland, WA (US)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/276,462
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Jan. 29, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/052155
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 9, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/171465, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 18, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/148,224, filed on Feb. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0164756 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/469 (2013.01) [A61B 8/06 (2013.01); A61B 8/465 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5276 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound imaging system configured to provide feedback on a quality of volume flow measurements, the system comprising:
a user interface;
a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions and configured to store power Doppler data for a plurality of Z-surfaces of a volume including a region of interest (ROI); and
at least one processor in communication with the non-transitory computer readable medium configured to execute the instructions, wherein when executed, the instructions cause the at least one processor to:
generate a histogram for individual ones of the plurality of Z-surfaces based, at least in part, on the power Doppler data, wherein the histogram has a first curve based on the power Doppler data from within the ROI and a second curve based on the power Doppler data from outside the ROI;
calculate a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by subtracting in the logarithmic scale a peak of the second curve from a peak of the first curve for at least one of the plurality of Z-surfaces; and
generate a quality factor based, at least in part, on the SNR;
generate display data for a quality indicator based, at least in part, on the quality factor, wherein the quality indicator is indicative of the quality of the volume flow measurements,
wherein the user interface is configured to display the quality indicator to a user based on the display data.