Novel Strategies for Beam Formation: Line-by-Line Acquisition Zone Acquisition

Friday, February 27, 2004 4:00 p.m. Tom Jedrzejewicz Medical Ultrasound Consultant Formerly with Siemens Medical Solutions http://www.medical.siemens.com The traditional line-by-line strategy to acquire ultrasound echo is described and compared to zone-based technique for real-time B-mode imaging. The zone technique utilizes a broad transmit beam from which many receive beams are formed, such that a full…