Mohammed Ben Abdillah,Emil Entchev,Adam Widera,John McNaboe,Brendan Lyons,Claudius Volz,Pia Dreiseitel,Claus Meder
申请号：
US13376406
公开号：
US08897599B2
申请日:
2010.06.11
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
An imaging system comprises a transmitter (24, 25), a receiver (24, 25, 21), and a controller (20) for directing the transmitter and the receiver to scan an object in a volume. The controller determines which sub-volumes of the volume the object is located within and then performs a fine scan in those sub-volumes. This reduces overall scanning time. The controller (20) may compare a received signal sample magnitude from the initial scan with a threshold to make the decision. The initial scan may be performed with a spot size to include only one or more particular volume elements within at least some of the sub-volumes.
