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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6544177 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method with harmonic spatial compounding An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method uses harmonic imaging to acquire a plurality of images at a variety of look angles. The number of acquired ultrasonic images that are compounded to form a spatially compounded image is varied in response ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6530885 | Spatially compounded three dimensional ultrasonic images An ultrasonic probe is moved to scan a volumetric region of the body. As it is moved, targets within the region are interrogated from multiple look directions. The echo data from the multiple look directions are compounded to form spatially compounded ima... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6516215 | Diagnostic ultrasound imaging system having display configured to optimally display ultrasound images A diagnostic ultrasound imaging system includes a display monitor having a viewing screen with an aspect ratio substantially wider than 4:3. The wide aspect ratio screen is able to display horizontally elongated images typically obtained in ultrasound ima... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6506155 | Data entry and setup system and method for ultrasound imaging An ultrasound imaging system includes a data entry device that reads storage media that is assigned to each patient on which the system is to be used or the operator of the system to obtain ultrasound images. The storage media, which may be a bar code, sm... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6503199 | Uniform volumetric scanning ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described for more uniformly scanning a volumetric region for 3D ultrasonic imaging. An image plane of steered scanning beams is rotated about an axis extending through the volumetric region with beam... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6432056 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with high frame rate synthetic transmit focus An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided which produces scanlines with synthesized transmit foci at a high frame rate of display. Beams are transmitted and received which have different beam steering and focal characteristics. At least one of t... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6390980 | Spatial compounding with ultrasonic doppler signal information An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described which perform spatial compounding of tissue motion or flow information. The resultant images not only reduce speckle artifacts, but also reduce dropout caused by the angular dependence of Do... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6384516 | Hex packed two dimensional ultrasonic transducer arrays A two dimensional ultrasonic transducer array suitable for three dimensional phased array scanning is formed of hexagonally close packed transducer elements. In a preferred embodiment the transducer elements have a rectilinear shape, allowing the array to... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6375617 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with dynamic microbeamforming An ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus are described for imaging the coronary arteries of the heart. The vascular system is infused with an ultrasonic contrast agent. A volumetric region of the heart wall including a coronary artery is three dimension... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6328696 | Bias charge regulator for capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers An ultrasonic transducer is formed by a plurality of cMUT cells, each comprising a charged diaphragm plate capacitively opposing an oppositely charged base plate. A feedback controlled bias charge regulator controls the bias charge of the capacitive plate... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6328697 | Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers with improved capacitive response An ultrasonic transducer is formed by a plurality of cMUT cells, each has a charged diaphragm plate capacitively opposing an oppositely charged base plate. The diaphragm plate is distended toward the base plate by a bias charge. The base plate includes a ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6319203 | Ultrasonic nonlinear imaging at fundamental frequencies Nonlinear tissue or contrast agent effects are detected by combining echoes from multiple, differently modulated transmit pulses below the second harmonic band. The received echoes may even overlap the fundamental transmit frequency band. The modulation m... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6315723 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with synthesized transmit focus An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided with synthesized transmit focus. Several beams are transmitted, each with a different transmit focus. Echoes received from the differently focused beams are combined to form a scanline with an extended f... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6299579 | Extended field of view ultrasonic diagnostic imaging with image reacquisition An extended field of view ultrasonic imaging system allows the direction of scanhead motion to be reversed to reacquire the desired image plane or patient anatomy when the movement of the scanhead departs from the desired path of travel.... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6288477 | Composite ultrasonic transducer array operating in the K31 mode An ultrasonic transducer array element operating in the k31 mode is formed by two piezoelectric subelements joined to form a 2--2 composite by a conductive filler material. An energizing potential is applied to the conductive filler material, a... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6283919 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging with blended tissue harmonic signals An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described which produce tissue harmonic images containing both fundamental and harmonic frequency components. Such a blended image takes advantage of the performance possible with the two types of ult... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6283917 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with blurring corrected spatial compounding An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is are described in which the component ultrasonic images which are to be spatially compounded are corrected for misregistration prior to compounding. The component images may be registered to a reference image or r... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6251074 | Ultrasonic tissue harmonic imaging An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and methods are described which produce tissue harmonic ultrasonic images from harmonic echo components of a transmitted fundamental frequency. Fundamental frequency waves are transmitted by an array transducer to f... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6238345 | Image memory for extended field of view ultrasonic diagnostic imaging An extended field of view image memory has x-y coordinates corresponding to the sight area of an extended field of view image, and a depth corresponding to the maximum number of elemental image pixels that can be compounded to form a pixel of the extended... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6234967 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging systems with power modulation for contrast and harmonic imaging A method and ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system for contrast agent imaging or tissue harmonic imaging is described which modulates the transmit power as a function of the angle of an electronically steered beam or the location of the beam in the scan pl... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6231510 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system A digital video recorder is provided which provides digital storage of realtime ultrasonic image sequences, replacing the conventional VCR with a recorder which does not degrade digital ultrasound images by analog conversion and recording. The capacity of... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6231508 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with digital video image marking A digital video recorder is provided which provides digital storage of realtime ultrasonic image sequences, replacing the conventional VCR with a recorder which does not degrade digital ultrasound images by analog conversion and recording. The digital vid... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6228031 | High frame rate ultrasonic diagnostic imaging systems with motion artifact reduction An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are provided for producing r.f. interpolated image lines with reduced susceptibility to motion artifacts. A multiline beamformer receives multiple scanlines in response to each transmitted beam. Image lin... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6224552 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with reduced spatial compounding seam artifacts An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces spatially compounded images by combining component frames acquired from different look directions. Different regions of the spatially compounded images are formed by different numbers of overlapping compone... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6213944 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with a digital video recorder with visual controls A digital video recorder is provided which provides digital storage of realtime ultrasonic image sequences, replacing the conventional VCR with a recorder which does not degrade digital ultrasound images by analog conversion and recording. The digital vid... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6210328 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with variable spatial compounding An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described in which the number of acquired ultrasonic images which are compounded to form a spatially compounded image is variable. The number of acquired images which is compounded is varied in respon... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6210337 | Ultrasonic endoscopic probe An ultrasonic endoscopic probe is provided with an articulating distal tip at which and ultrasonic transducer is located. The articulating section of the probe can be locked in an articulated position by a lock control located at a control section of the ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6203499 | Multiple angle needle guide A needle guide is provided for quick, easy, and consistent insertion of a needle, such as a biopsy needle, into the scan plane of an ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system probe at multiple angles. The needle guide of the present invention is preferably a o... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6193662 | High frame rate pulse inversion harmonic ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are provided for producing harmonic ultrasonic images at high line densities or frame rates of display. Scanlines are received from spatially adjacent fundamental frequency transmit beams of opposite phas... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6186950 | Ultrasonic pulse inversion harmonic separation with reduced motional effects Pulse inversion harmonic separation is performed utilizing echoes from three or more pulses of alternating phase or polarity. Temporally different echoes of opposite phase or polarity are combined in pairs, which are in turn combined to form partial sums ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6142946 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with cordless scanheads An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided with cordless scanheads which wirelessly transmit ultrasonic image signals to the imaging system. The transmitted image signals are received by a receiver in the mainframe ultrasound system where they un... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6139501 | Coincident tissue and motion ultrasonic diagnostic imaging Multi-mode ultrasonic images are formed by processing the ultrasonic echoes from a single transmit pulse in parallel to display both tissue and motion. In a preferred embodiment short transmit bursts are employed to produce echo ensembles for tissue motio... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6135956 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with spatial compounding of resampled image data An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces spatially compounded images by combining component frames acquired from different look directions. The component frames are acquired in estimate space, converted to sampled data in a common coordinate syste... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6126598 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with adaptive spatial compounding An adaptive ultrasonic spatial compounding method is described in which the number of component ultrasonic images which are to be spatially compounded is varied in response to the type of scanning procedure. In a survey mode, when the transducer is rapidl... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6126599 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with real time spatial compounding processor An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces spatially compounded images by combining component frames acquired from different look directions. In a first embodiment, the oldest component frame used to form a spatially compounded image is subtracted f... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6117081 | Method for correcting blurring of spatially compounded ultrasonic diagnostic images An ultrasonic imaging method is described in which component ultrasonic images which are to be spatially compounded are corrected for misregistration prior to compounding. The component images may be registered to a reference image or registered to form i... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6117084 | Ultrasonic probe connector enclosure An ultrasonic probe enclosure is provided that has a liquid tight seal for sealing an ultrasonic probe connector and a portion of an ultrasonic probe cable. The enclosure of the present invention provides liquid tight sealing in a simple and reliable mann... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6117080 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and method for breast cancer diagnosis with the use of volume rendering An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is described which produces ultrasonic breast images by acquiring ultrasonic data from a volumetric region of the breast, then volume rendering the data to produce a projection image from the data set. The diagnosti... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6117085 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with cordless scanhead charger An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided with cordless scanheads which wirelessly transmit ultrasonic image signals to the imaging system. The cordless scanheads are battery powered by rechargeable batteries which are recharged by the ultrasoun... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6113547 | Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging with cordless scanhead transmission system An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided with cordless scanheads which wirelessly transmit ultrasonic image signals to the imaging system. The transmitted image signals are accompanied by header and trailer information which identify display ch... | 09/05/2000 |
