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| 8109876 | Noninvasive technique for identification of structural integrity of Bjork Shiley convexo-concave mechanical heart valves The present invention is a non-invasive method and apparatus to determine the structural integrity of an implanted BSCC by insonifying the implanted heart valve with a megahertz frequency to cause the structural components of the heart valve to vibrate at a kilohert... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105237 | System and method for characterizing tissue based upon homomorphic deconvolution of backscattered ultrasound A system and method are disclosed that facilitate characterizing vascular plaque tissue based upon spectral analysis of intravascular ultrasound echo signal segments. In particular, a power spectrum analysis of an integrated backscatter parameter renders a set of ch... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8096947 | Quantification and display of cardiac chamber wall thickening An ultrasonic imaging system and method are described for quantification and display of myocardial wall thickening. The endocardial and epicardial borders in an image sequence are defined over a heart cycle and changes in the distance between the borders are tracked... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8088067 | Tissue aberration corrections in ultrasound therapy A system for focusing ultrasonic energy through intervening tissue into a target site within a tissue region includes a transducer array including transducer element, an imager for imaging the tissue region, a processor receiving images from the imager to determine ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088068 | Multiple ultrasound beams transmitting and receiving method and apparatus This present application describes a multiple ultrasound beams transmitting and receiving method, comprising: transmitting a first fat beam along a first transmit line with a first transmit aperture; receiving echo of the first fat beam with a first receive aperture... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088069 | Ultrasonic doppler diagnosis device An ultrasonic Doppler diagnosis device having a velocity data interpolating section for generating interpolated velocity data for interpolating velocity data between two sound lines and two scanning lines, using the velocity data at the intersections. The velocity d... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8079956 | Ultrasonographic device and ultrasonographic method In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an improvement in spatial resolution, and an amount of displacement between th... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075485 | Gain setting in doppler haemodynamic monitors This invention relates to a method of automatically setting the gain of an echo signal in a Doppler ultrasound haemodynamic monitor. In essence the invention comprises monitoring the strength of velocity components measured by the apparatus, and identifying a group ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070681 | Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus It is intended to provide an ultrasonic probe permitting a reduction of a number of switching components while transmitting and receiving signals with the picture quality level held capable of being maintained. An ultrasonic the probe comprises transducers, transduc... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070682 | Method and apparatus for medical imaging using combined near-infrared optical tomography, fluorescent tomography and ultrasound Methods and apparatus for medical imaging using diffusive optical tomography and fluorescent diffusive optical tomography and ultrasound are disclosed. In one embodiment, the probe comprises emitters and detectors that are inclined at an angle of about 1 to about 30... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070680 | Method and apparatus for performing transgastric procedures Apparatus for performing a transgastric procedure includes an elongated tubular main access device having the first lumen with open proximal end and a side opening distal end, and a second lumen with open ends. A balloon having a wall on the outside of the device su... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8062223 | Using pulsed-wave ultrasonography for determining an aliasing-free radial velocity spectrum of matter moving in a region Using pulsed-wave (PW) ultrasonography for determining an aliasing-free radial velocity spectrum of matter moving in a region. Includes: transmitting into the region a plurality of pulse trains of sound waves at two or more different pulse repetition frequencies; sp... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057389 | Method and system for ultrasound treatment with a multi-directional transducer A method and system for ultrasound treatment utilizing a multi-directional transducer to facilitate treatment, such as therapy and/or imaging or other tissue parameter monitoring, in two or more directions. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a multi-directi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052602 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An object of the invention is to provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that can conduct elastic modulus measurement with high accuracy without enlarging the circuit scale. A calculator 3 uses a signal from a receiver-transmitter 2 to calcul... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052603 | Transducer/sensor assembly An imaging transducer assembly is combined with a sensor of a medical positioning system, forming a transducer/sensor assembly. In one embodiment, the sensor includes a coil proximally coupled with the imaging transducer. A cable having first and second wires are pr... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047989 | Medical imaging diagnosis apparatus and medical imaging diagnosis method A medical imaging diagnosis apparatus for measuring the composite thickness of the tunica intima and the tunica media of a blood vessel of a subject by acquiring image data on the blood vessel. In order to improve the accuracy of the IMT measurement of the composite... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8038616 | Acoustic imaging by nonlinear low frequency manipulation of high frequency scattering and propagation properties Methods of acoustic imaging provide images with reduced reverberation noise and images of nonlinear scattering and propagation parameters of the object, and estimation methods of corrections for wave front aberrations produced by spatial variations in the acoustic p... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8021300 | Three-dimensional fly-through systems and methods using ultrasound data A volume is represented using high spatial resolution ultrasound data. By modulating B-mode data with Doppler or flow information, the spatial resolution or contrast of the B-mode data may be enhanced. The same set of ultrasound data is used for identifying a bounda... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021301 | Ultrasonic image processing apparatus, ultrasonic image processing method and ultrasonic image processing program An ultrasonic image processing apparatus in which image quality of ultrasonic images can be improved by performing image processing that utilizes image characteristics of the original image. The ultrasonic image processing apparatus processes image data generated ba... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8012090 | Method and apparatus for real time ultrasound multi-plane imaging An ultrasound system is provided that includes a probe for successively acquiring ultrasound information from an object along at least three distinct scan planes. The scan planes intersect one another along an axis extending from the probe through the object. A memo... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8012091 | Method and system for fetal weight estimation A method for fetal weight estimation wherein fetal biometric parameters are ultrasonically measured and further physiological and phenomenological pregnancy parameters are determined for a plurality of sample cases. The fetal weight for each of the sample cases is t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8007437 | Method and apparatus for interactive 4-dimensional (4D) virtual endoscopy A method of performing 4-dimensional virtual endoscopy includes acquiring a sequence of cardiac images of a patient's heart from an imaging device; acquiring an electrocardiographic signal exhibiting cardiac cycles of the heart; and utilizing the electrocardiographi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002702 | Ultrasonograph and method for controlling movement of display body of ultrasonograph The operability of setting movement of a Doppler sample gate for setting a Doppler measurement portion on a sectoral or circular ultrasonogram is improved. An ultrasonograph is provided with calculation means (25) for determining the position where a Doppler ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002706 | Acoustic beam forming in phased arrays including large numbers of transducer elements A focused ultrasound system includes a transducer array, a controller for providing drive signals to the transducer array, and a switch. The transducer array includes a plurality of “n” transducer elements, and the controller includes a plurality of “m” outp... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002703 | Ultrasonic imaging device This invention provides an ultrasonic imaging system that implements imaging by distinguishing sharply and definitely the echo components generated by scattering in a microbubble contrast medium, from the tissue harmonic components generated by nonlinear propagation... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002704 | Method and system for determining contact along a surface of an ultrasound probe A method and system for determining contact along a surface of an ultrasound probe are provided. The method includes frequency analyzing ultrasound signals received by the ultrasound probe and displaying indicators of acoustic contact of the ultrasound probe with an... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002705 | Continuous transmit focusing method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging system In one embodiment, an ultrasound imaging method comprises: providing a probe that includes one or more transducer elements for transmitting and receiving ultrasound waves; generating a sequence of spatially distinct transmit beams which differ in one or more of orig... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7998072 | Probe based digitizing or compression system and method for medical ultrasound Methods, systems and probes communicate signals from a transducer for imaging or connection with an imaging system. Beamforming-related electronics are positioned in the connector housing of the transducer probe assembly. For example, analog-to-digital converters ar... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998073 | Ultrasound imaging with reduced noise Signal processing techniques reduce the impact of noise (including speckle noise and shot noise) on ultrasound images by reducing the intensity of pixels that are probably noise and increasing the intensity of pixels that are probably signal. The decision of whether... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998074 | Image plane stabilization for medical imaging A medical imaging system automatically acquires two-dimensional images representing a user-defined region of interest despite motion. The plane of acquisition is updated or altered adaptively as a function of detected motion. The user-designated region of interest i... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993272 | Image plane stabilization for medical imaging A medical imaging system automatically acquires two-dimensional images representing a user-defined region of interest despite motion. The plane of acquisition is updated or altered adaptively as a function of detected motion. The user-designated region of interest i... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993270 | Digital receive-focusing apparatus using analogue multiplexers A digital receive-focusing apparatus for receive-focusing ultrasound channel signals from a plurality of transducers in an ultrasound imaging system is provided. The digital receive-focusing apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993271 | System and method for screening tissue A system and method for screening tissue is provided. The system provides a computer-based system for distinguishing between normal and potentially abnormal tissue. The system includes computer components for generating and receiving ultrasonic waves, for storing a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7981035 | Phase selection for cardiac contrast assessment In one embodiment, at least one visual characteristic from a selected image is used to automatically select an ultrasound image from a set of images from a plurality of heart cycles. In another embodiment, motion correction is performed on ultrasound images that are... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7972268 | Steered continuous wave doppler methods for two-dimensional ultrasound transducer arrays Methods and systems for acquiring spectral and velocity information with a multi-dimensional array are provided. For example, a dedicated receive aperture is formed at a multi-dimensional array for steered continuous wave imaging. Other elements not within the dedic... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7963918 | Apparatus for ultrasonic examination of deformable object The present invention relates to an apparatus for an ultrasonic examination of a deformable object, particularly, the breast. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus capable of performing an ultrasonic examination by moving an ultrasonic pro... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959571 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic image generating method The invention provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasonic diagnostic image generating method realizing improvement in picture quality to thereby improve diagnosis efficiency in a diagnosis using images. An extracting process of extracting a sound r... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959572 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, IMT measurement method, and IMT measurement program An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus by which highly quantitative IMT (intima media thickness) measurement with little variations depending on examiners can be performed. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe for transmitting ultrasonic wav... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7951083 | Motion analysis improvements for medical diagnostic ultrasound The phase or associated amplitude analysis of a sequence of images is improved by, first, providing quantifications in response to the phase or amplitude information. For example, a value or values representing asynchrony between different locations through a sequen... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951081 | Transducer/sensor assembly An imaging transducer assembly is combined with a sensor of a medical positioning system, forming a transducer/sensor assembly. In one embodiment, the sensor includes a coil proximally coupled with the imaging transducer. A cable having first and second wires are pr... | 05/31/2011 |
