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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8128565 | Heat reducing ultrasound diagnostic apparatus An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus having a continuous wave Doppler mode. A line switching section is provided between an array transducer and a unit which has a CW transmission section and a CW reception section, for changing a transmitting and receiving aperture p... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7981037 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus which performs ultrasonic diagnosis with respect of a fetal heart. An area change measurement section calculates an area of a specific heart chamber (left ventricle) in the fetal heart in frame units. Further, the area change measur... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7938778 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus A surface point tracked by an echo tracking processor unit for each ultrasonic beam is a tracking point. A strain measurement unit measures an amount of strain of a bone based on the surface points. A delay time measurement unit measures a time for the amount of str... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7912884 | Method and apparatus for implementing finite impulse response filters without the use of multipliers A finite impulse response filter is implemented as a sum of individual component, running-sum filters. The sum of all of the component filters required for a desired filter response is calculated in an accumulator and only the component filters' update terms, which ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7841983 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plurality of transducer units which are two-dimensionally arranged to transmit/receive an ultrasonic wave to/from hard tissue; a transceiver unit which receives an echo signal for each... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7806824 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus In a medical ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, a reference image and a guidance display are provided as probe operation support information. The reference image contains a recorded probe mark generated based on coordinate data recorded during a past diagnosis and a cu... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804736 | Delay controller for ultrasound receive beamformer An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound transducer having an array of elements and a beam origin located between two adjacent elements, each of the elements for converting received energy into an echo signal; and a beamformer that includes an initialization cont... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798967 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, a plurality of sub arrays are defined on a 2D array transducer. A plurality of groups are defined for each sub array. Each group is basically composed of a plurality of transducer elements which are connected in parallel with ea... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7734447 | Radiation measuring device and data processing method A radiation measuring device capable of identifying the incident direction of a radiation ray and energy (segmentation). The directivity characteristics of a plurality of detectors are different from each other. A plurality of energy segmentations are set respective... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7727192 | Puncture adapter for use in ultrasonic diagnosis An adapter for use in puncture (a puncture adapter) for performing puncture while an ultrasonic image is being observed. The puncture adapter is composed of a holder for holding a probe which transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave, and a base unit for movably sup... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7662100 | Ultrasonic diagnostic device An edge detector executes a process to extract a surface of an inner wall of a left ventricle from a binarized image output from a binarization circuit. A telediastolic edge memory stores an intracardial surface image at the end of ventricular diastole from among in... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7655912 | Direction finding radiation detector, and radiation monitoring method and apparatus A direction finding radiation detector for detecting the direction of incidence of radioactive rays, comprising: a plurality of scintillators (41, 42, 43) (101, 102, 103) made of the same material, being arranged to overlap circumferentially at least i... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7635333 | Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprises a cine-memory for temporarily storing a frame line obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasound. In a stress echo test, the storage region of the cine-memory is divided into the same number of segments as the number o... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7604597 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus A specific cavity extractor extracts an isolated group corresponding to a left ventricle from among a plurality of isolated groups to which numbers are attached in a labeling section. A major axis slope calculator section sets, as a left ventricle major axis, a stra... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7526061 | Computerized tomography device using X rays and image processing method A computerized tomography device using an X-ray reconstructs a CT image of a sample and processes the CT image. Brown adipose candidate pixels are extracted based on a CT number of each pixel reconstructing the CT image. An erroneous pixel removal process is applied... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7508737 | Ultrasound receive beamformer In an ultrasound receive beamformer signals from two or more aperture elements are multiplexed at the input of each beamformer channel, stored in different portions of a delay memory, delayed and apodized in a time-multiplexed fashion, demultiplexed at the output of... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7497829 | Data recording system A ring buffer records image data output from an ultrasound diagnosis device in units of frames. A user identifies, on an image, occurrence of a target symptom while viewing a cross sectional image which is displayed in real time and inputs an end trigger immediately... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7402809 | Scintillator member and manufacturing method thereof, and radiation measuring device When a heating process is performed in a state where a thermal transfer sheet is superimposed on a scintillator plate, a film of the thermal transfer sheet is separated from the thermal transfer sheet and adhered onto the scintillator plate. The film includes a prot... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386183 | Method and apparatus for image processing A method for image processing comprising the steps of processing an image comprising a plurality of pixels each having an intensity to produce an image processed image comprising a plurality of pixels, applying a preservation filter to the image to produce at least ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7322936 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, a plurality of sub arrays are defined on a 2D array transducer. The sub array shape pattern of each sub array is adaptively changed in accordance with the beam scanning direction. Each sub array is composed of a plurality of gro... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316059 | Method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe A method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe including the steps of forming a plurality of first slits on a layered assembly having a first imner electrode member and a second inner electrode member through a top surface of the layered assembly and forming a plural... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7223240 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus In an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of forming a three-dimensional ultrasonic image, an entire cavity portion of an organ can be displayed without any part being invisible. Three-dimensional ultrasonic image data obtained based on an ultrasonic wave transm... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7217243 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus A plurality of 2D sub arrays are defined on a 2D array transducer for effecting transmission and reception of ultrasound. For each sub array, a plurality of groups are set. More specifically, a plurality of (16, for example) transducer elements forming a sub array a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7148607 | Ultrasonic probe and manufacturing method thereof An ultrasonic probe for use in an ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for a living body comprises an array transducer made up of a plurality of layered transducer elements. A specified structure (face-to-face structure) is created across two adjacent transducer elements.... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6878114 | Ultrasonic diagnostic device An ellipsoidal axes setting unit sets major and minor axis of an ellipsoid based on cross sectional position information and ellipsoidal parameters input by a user while viewing a display. A major axis end detector unit, a front view minor axis end detector unit, an... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6875177 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus forms a three-dimensional echo data acquisition space. A beam address array is composed of a plurality of ultrasonic beam addresses constituting a three-dimensional echo data acquisition space. The beam address array is divided int... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6796943 | Ultrasonic medical system An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus 12 outputs echo data to a host controller 20. In the host controller 20, a tissue coordinate operation unit 48 computes coordinate information of a tumor 30 using a three dimensional probe 10 | 09/28/2004 |
| 6673020 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus To accurately measure wave intensity as an evaluation value using an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, a measurement line is set in a tomogram and anterior and posterior walls of a blood vessel are tracked on the measurement line, so that a change waveform... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6607491 | Ultrasonic probe An ultrasonic probe which is used for ultrasonic diagnosis comprises a transducer element, a sonic speed control element, and an acoustic matching layer. The sonic speed control element has a function to control the sonic speed of the ultrasonic waves tra... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6135959 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which displays a two-dimensional sectional image of, for example, the left ventricle of the heart by sending and receiving ultrasonic waves. A reference point is set in the left ventricle, and an outline of the left vent... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6095979 | Bone assessment apparatus A bone assessment apparatus for diagnosing bone by transmitting and receiving measuring waves (in particular ultrasonic waves) is provided. A body part (e.g. a foot) is gripped by a pair of transducer assemblies, and ultrasonic waves are transmitted and r... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6089096 | Elevation focusing by beamformer channel sharing An ultrasound imaging system provides for depth-variable elevational and azimuthal focusing by combining electronic beamforming and fixed mechanical lens (or element shaping). The imaging system includes a plurality of beamformer channels that are selecti... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5938610 | Bone assessment apparatus A bone assessment apparatus for diagnosing bone by transmitting and receiving measuring waves (in particular ultrasonic waves) is provided. A body part (e.g. a foot) is gripped by a pair of transducer assemblies, and ultrasonic waves are transmitted and r... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5837198 | Physiological tissue treatment apparatus When reagent was discharged in a physiological tissue reagent treatment apparatus, it was troublesome to retain the sample so that it was not discharged together with the reagent. This apparatus offers an improvement on this point, saves work involved in ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5817018 | Method for measuring speed of sound in tissue and tissue assessment apparatus A method for measuring the speed of sound in a tissue such as bone. First, the transducer covers of a pair of transducer units are pressed together under a predetermined pressure, ultrasound is transmitted and received, and the time taken by the ultrasoun... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5807250 | Bone assessment apparatus and method A bone assessment apparatus for obtaining an assessment value E for a bone 12 with good repeatability by simple calculation using the waveform of a signal derived from received ultrasound which has passed through the bone. A transmitting transducer (20) t... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5776414 | Physiological tissue treatment apparatus A physiological tissue sample on a glass slide is treated by a reagent. A reagent bath is formed so that its horizontal depth becomes progressively larger from the lower part to the upper part. In a first treatment mode, a small amount of reagent is intro... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5713361 | Bone assessment apparatus A bone assessment apparatus includes a pair of ultrasonic transducers (14). A plurality of adapters (26, 126) are available so as to easily adjust the position of the calcaneus in accordance with the size of the foot to be examined. A selected adapter (26... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5433203 | Bone assessment apparatus and method A bone assessment apparatus provides a precise bone assessment based on the attenuation factor of an ultrasonic wave which has passed through a bone of a patient. A transmitting transducer and a receiving transducer are positioned at either side of the bo... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5348009 | Bone assessment apparatus An apparatus for providing assessment indices related to bone strength which are useful in predicting the risk of bone fracture. The apparatus measures the mineral density of bone (BMD) by means of X-rays, while the propagation speed of sound V in the bon... | 09/20/1994 |
