Ultrasonic doppler flow imaging method for eliminating motion artifacts

摘要

An ultrasonic diagnostic system is provided that removes the effects of image motion from the received Doppler information signals, allowing the display of a fluid flow image without image motion artifacts. The Doppler information signals received from an ultrasonic transducer include velocity components due to both the fluid flow through a subject as well as image motion. The Doppler information signals are demodulated to provide Doppler baseband signal samples containing a fluid motion component and an image motion component. An image motion vector is estimated from a comparison of consecutive image frames, and a relative Doppler frequency between the fluid motion component and the image motion component is derived utilizing the estimated image motion vector. A fluid motion vector can then be derived from the derived relative Doppler frequency.