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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7516021 | Optical system for measuring metabolism in a body, method and program Apparatus and method for hemoglobin measurement including irradiating light to a living body, detecting light that has propagated through the living body, and acquiring measured data that represents a change in the concentration of oxidized hemoglobin in the living ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 6600317 | Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus In processing of measurement data of each slab obtained by 3D-TOF multi-slab measurement, data in the overlapped portion of the slabs are weighted and added for each slice position. The weight function is calculated based on parameters set previously and ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6236210 | Magnetic resonance imaging system A magnetic resonance imaging system includes a lower body which has a flat upper surface, and contains a first magnetic pole, an upper body which has a lower surface disposed in opposed relation to the upper surface of the lower body, and contains a secon... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6215308 | Magnetic resonance imaging system A magnetic resonance imaging system includes a lower body which has a flat upper surface, and contains a first magnetic pole, an upper body which has a lower surface disposed in opposed relation to the upper surface of the lower body, and contains a secon... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6059730 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus including a phase difference computing unit To achieve a high resolution, by modifying a delay time distribution of received waves with correlation computations between signals from adjacent elements and by removing influences of inhomogeneities in a living body with a simple computing circuit for ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5895855 | Ultrasonic probe transmitting/receiving an ultrasonic wave of a plurality of frequencies and ultrasonic wave inspection apparatus using the same In an ultrasonic inspection apparatus, a piezoelectric element having a first resonant frequency is stuck to a complex resonance member having a second resonant frequency. The second resonant frequency is determined with a conversion in terms of half wave... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5668845 | Computed-tomography apparatus and control method thereof A computed-tomography apparatus acquires a cross-sectional image of an object from projection data obtained by scanning the object with radiation while rotating a scanner around the object. One of rotation positions of the scanner having a smaller attenua... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5664572 | Method for discriminating speckle noises from signals in ultrasonic tomography apparatus and ultrasonic tomography apparatus including speckle noise removing circuit A discrimination method of speckle noises in an ultrasonic tomography apparatus, includes a step of scanning a predetermined area of an object to be examined by an ultrasonic wave and receiving an ultrasonic echo signal from the object, a step of producin... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5561697 | Microtron electron accelerator Disclosed is a microtron electron accelerator having an accelerating cavity accepting microwave electric power for generating a high-frequency accelerating electric field E disposed within a uniform magnetic field B and adapted such that electrons are acc... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5489847 | RF probe for MRI An RF probe for MRI, in which a plurality of unit coils including conductive loops having resonance capacitors and inductors connected with the conductive loops in series are arranged so as to be distant from each other with a predetermined distance, elec... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5399873 | Microtron electron accelerator Disclosed is a microtron electron accelerator having an accelerating cavity accepting microwave electric power for generating a high-frequency accelerating electric field E disposed within a uniform magnetic field B and adapted such that electrons are acc... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5357200 | Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus An object is repeatedly excited by a 90-degree pulse and a plurality of spin echoes are obtained by a 180-degree pulse each time the excitation is repeated. The spin echoes are differently phase-encoded and the spin echoes thus generated are assigned to a... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5345173 | Data processing method to reduce truncation artifacts in nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus A data processing method for image reconstruction in an NMR apparatus for use in the medical field which reduces a computation quantity relating to data extrapolation when truncation artifacts are reduced by data extrapolation. The data processing method ... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5345172 | Double-slice imaging method in NMR imaging apparatus To accomplish double-slice imaging by a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging apparatus having an ordinary radio frequency magnetic field generator, two radio frequency magnetic field waveforms are used and slices are separated by subsequent calculatio... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5341465 | Method and apparatus for displaying and cutting out region of interest from picture A method of displaying and cutting out a region of interest. Upon depicting contour lines indicating regions of interest, respectively, on a display screen, the regions of interest are displayed with contour lines differing from one region to another in a... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5334966 | Magnetostatic field generator for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus A magnetostatic field generator for a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a pair of permanent magnets each having a rectangular parallelepiped shape arranged perpendicular to a direction of a uniform magnetic field to surround a space where a un... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5335173 | Medical diagnosis image display method and apparatus A medical diagnosis image display method comprising the steps of transforming respective three-dimensional image information on a skull of a subject patient to be examined and diagnosed and skin covering the outer surface of the skull; obtaining respectiv... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5327898 | Signal receiving coil device for MRI apparatus A signal receiving coil device for an MRI apparatus, to be fitted to a patient for detecting nuclear magnetic resonance signals, comprising a coil member assuming a substantially cylindrical shape when fitted to the patient and having at least one flexibl... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5325859 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises an ultrasonic wave transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting ultrasonic signals to a subject and receiving reflected echo signals reflected from the subject; a unit for controlling the ultrasonic wave transmi... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5323111 | Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus A first sectional image corresponding to a first section of an object to be examined is displayed on a screen of a display device. A position of a first line on the first sectional image is designated. First data corresponding to a distance between the fi... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5318034 | Electrically adjustable delay circuit and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus This invention provides a delay circuit capable of electrically varying the delay amount comprising a first transistor for receiving a signal to be delayed from the base connected to an input terminal and outputting a positive phase signal and a negative ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5297033 | Data processing method in nuclear magnetic resonance measurement This invention relates to a data processing method for suppressing truncation artifacts mixed into two-dimensional images in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. Two-dimensional measurement data arrays are obtained on a space frequency domain by the combin... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5252924 | Magnetic field generating apparatus for MRI A magnetic field generating apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus, including soft ferrite disposed adjacently to a gradient magnetic field coil which is disposed in a gap and serves to form a static magnetic field. The soft ferrite ha... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5063541 | Beam forming method and apparatus therefor in ultrasonic imaging system A beam former method and an apparatus therefor in an ultrasonic imaging system, in which switching of delay elements is performed by means of delay switches in a section in which no ultrasonic wave transmission/reception is performed and switching noise g... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4913159 | Method for determining blood flow through a narrowed orifice using color doppler echocardiography A multi-gated pulsed wave color Doppler imaging system is used to provide accurate non-invasive measurements of liquid flow through a narrowed orifice by using the color Doppler to first measure the velocity of flow along an axis perpendicular to the orif... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4850366 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for displaying speed or correlation between speed and speed dispersion by color change An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic pulse beam toward an internal moving member of a living body at a constant recurrence frequency, a converter for mixing the received high-frequency signal with ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4840180 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for measurement of speed of moving medium in a living body An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic pulse beam toward an internal moving medium of a living body at a constant recurrence frequency, a converter for mixing the received high-frequency signal with ... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4839915 | Inverter type X-ray apparatus In an inverter type X-ray apparatus comprising an inverter including a plurality of switching elements operated alternately to generate an AC voltage having a rectangular waveform, a high voltage transformer transforming the AC voltage of rectangular wave... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4830016 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises a probe means for transmitting an ultrasonic pulse beam toward an internal moving part of a living body and receiving the reflected wave therefrom, and a plurality of phasing circuits for simultaneously receivin... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4818861 | Film image reading out device In a film image reading out device, in which one surface of a film, where images are recorded, is scanned repeatedly with a laser light beam along a scanning line and images are read out by detecting continuously light, which has passed through the film, ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817619 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus obtains an ultrasonic wave image of B mode by transmitting an ultrasonic pulse beam toward an internal moving part of a living body at a constant recurrence frequency and receiving the reflected wave therefrom. A speed di... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4817121 | Apparatus for checking baggage with x-rays An apparatus for checking baggage with X-rays utilizing an X-ray source for irradiating X-rays toward an object to be checked on a conveyor with a fan-shaped beam, an X-ray detector including a plurality of detecting elements aligned along each of two arm... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4811740 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus capable of probe exchange An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus capable of interchangeably using a plurality of probes each having ultrasonic transducer elements disposed in an array and being detachably connected to the apparatus via a connector, wherein a storage unit is provided in... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4809703 | Ultrasonic doppler blood flow meter An ultrasonic Doppler blood flow meter comprises a transmit-receive transducer transmitting ultrasonic wave toward and into a living body and receiving an echo signal, quadrature detectors detecting a real (R) component and an imaginary (I) component of t... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4804919 | Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus for realizing same Before beginning a prior art imaging sequence, at first parts producing artifact are excited by applying a high frequency magnetic field thereto in a frequency band, which includes the parts emitting artifact and doesn't include a desired slice plane. Nex... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4803354 | Circuit for correcting output phase of rotary encoder A circuit for correcting a variation in phase of a train of clock pulses detected from a pattern of a coding disc of a rotary encoder which detects the rotation angle of a rotating shaft, comprises an ROM in which data for correction of a phase variation ... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4801835 | Ultrasonic probe using piezoelectric composite material In an ultrasonic probe produced by forming stripe electrodes on a piezoelectric composite material consisting of a plurality of piezoelectric ceramic rods buried in an organic material, the gaps between the stripe electrodes in the direction of dispositio... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4789833 | Method for correcting position deviation due to static magnetic field change in NMR imaging device An NMR imaging device comprises a circuit for applying a static magnetic field to an object to be examined, a circuit for applying gradient magnetic fields to the object, a circuit for applying radio frequency pulses to the object to cause nuclear magneti... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4759372 | Convex array ultrasonic probe An ultrasonic probe used for ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus. A plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements are provided in a convexity at the tip of a probe so as to constitute a convex array ultrasonic probe. The curvature radius of the convexity is set ... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4744367 | Apparatus for measuring blood flow speed using an ultrasonic beam An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises a probe for transmitting an ultrasonic beam toward a body having a blood vessel therein and a plurality of receiver circuits corresponding to sampling points of the body in a direction approximately perpendicula... | 05/17/1988 |
