A system and method to improve imagecla.pi.ty in ultrasound images that utilize an ultrasoundtransceiver receiving ultrasound energy returning froma targeted region of interest and producing a pluralityof echoic signals The echoic signals then receive signalprocessing via an executable algo.pi.thm configured toimage the targeted region-of-interest from the echoicsignals using at least one of a first harmonic, a secondharmonic, and a fundamental frequency of the ultrasoundenergy Alternate embodiments provide that theexecutable algonthm may include a Harmonic AnalysisKernel (HAK) The HAK includes a window process,a Fast Fourier Transform process, an average process,a normalization of intensity process, a compensationby depth process, and a harmonic smoothing processto generate the harmonic values A map of the harmonicvalues then may be coded, for example, by coloraccording to the magnitude of the harmonic value, topresent an image of the region-of-interest
