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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7862508 | Systems and methods for ultrasound imaging Systems and methods are disclosed for improving the resolution and quality of an image formed by signals from an array of receivers. Multiple receivers introduce variations in arrival times that can be less than the period of an operating signal, and also less than ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857764 | Medical image diagnostic apparatus and method of perusing medical images An ultrasound diagnostic system 200 is provided with operation input device 6 configured to set up examination information of examinee P, operation acknowledgement device 110 configured to acknowledge operation signals received from operation in... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857765 | Protocol-driven ultrasound examination The present invention relates to a system and method for performing a protocol-driven ultrasound examination for generating an image of moving cardiac structure and blood of a heart. One embodiment comprises a front-end and at least one processor. The front end is a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857763 | Automatic signal-optimizing transducer assembly for blood flow measurement The invention uses a transducer and ultrasound system to form and direct ultrasound beams through the blood stream that will detect the Doppler shift in frequency between the beams and the return echo off the blood. The transducer can be secured onto the surface of ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857762 | Method of generating a predetermined wave field The invention relates to a method of generating a predetermined objective wave field in a medium using a first network of transducers T1-Tn). The inventive method consists in first using each transducer i of the first network to emit an approximation of the s... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7850609 | Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasound probe having a plurality of piezoelectric transducers to transmit ultrasound waves to a subject and to receive echoes from the subject, a driving unit which generates a plurality of driving signals correspon... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7846096 | Method for monitoring of medical treatment using pulse-echo ultrasound A method for ultrasound imaging of anatomical tissue. A first signal is received from a first imaging ultrasound wave which has been reflected from a location in the anatomical tissue during a first time period. A second signal is received from a second imaging ultr... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7846097 | Measuring transducer movement methods and systems for multi-dimensional ultrasound imaging Methods and systems for measuring transducer movement are provided. For example, free-hand scanning for three-dimensional imaging is provided. An optical sensor within the transducer measures motion along the skin surface similar to measuring movement of a personal ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7841984 | Ultrasonic treatment and imaging of adipose tissue A system for imaging tissue during ultrasound therapy treatments is described. The system has a high intensity focused ultrasound transducer, video display and controller. The controller has two receive paths for detecting cavitation and boiling in present during an... | 11/30/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7841982 | Apparatus and method for imaging objects with wavefields A transmission wave field imaging method, comprising the transmission of an incident wave field into an object, the incident wave field propagating into the object and, at least, partially scattering. Also includes the measuring of a wave field transmitted, at least... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7837623 | Non-invasive method of obtaining a pre-determined acoustic wave field in an essentially uniform medium which is concealed by a bone barrier, imaging method and device for carrying out said methods A non-invasive method of obtaining a target soundwave field in the brain by means of an array of transducers positioned outside the skull, the method comprising a training stage during which, on the basis of a three-dimensional image giving the porosity of the skull... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833158 | Methods and apparatus for beamforming applications A beamforming system includes an array of transducers that detects echo signals in a scanned region. The array of transducers produces respective electronic signals based on receipt of echo signals. The beamforming system further includes an array of multipliers (e.... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833159 | Image processing system and method of enhancing the quality of an ultrasound image The present invention relates to an image processing system for enhancing the image quality of an ultrasound image. The image processing system may include: an image data forming unit for forming image data based on image signals acquired from a target object; a log... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828731 | Ultrasonographic apparatus, ultrasonographic data processing method, and ultrasonographic data processing program An ultrasonographic apparatus in which the S/N ratio of a compound image is improved operates by combining a plurality of reception beam signals from probes arranged at different positions relative to a sample, converting the combined ultrasonic beam into a luminanc... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828733 | Coronal and axial thick-slice ultrasound images derived from ultrasonic scans of a chestwardly-compressed breast Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828732 | Breast cancer screening with adjunctive ultrasound mammography An adjunctive ultrasound mammography system and associated methods are described, comprising a scanning apparatus for facilitating standardized, repeatable breast ultrasound scans, and further comprising an adjunctive ultrasound display apparatus configured for fast... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7824334 | Ultrasonograph and method and program for generating ultrasonotomographic image An ultrasonograph is provided with a frequency component adjuster that adjusts spatial frequency components of original image data RAW0 of an ultrasonotomographic image. The frequency component adjuster is constituted of an unsharp image data generator, a... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7824335 | Reconfigurable array with multi-level transmitters An imaging probe having multi-level transmitter cells. The imaging probe includes a plurality of acoustical sub-elements for transmitting and receiving acoustic energy for imaging. Each of the multi-level transmitter cells is arranged along a respective transmitter ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819805 | Sub-nyquist sampling of acoustic signals in ultrasound imaging Systems and methods are disclosed for improving the resolution and quality of an image formed by signals from an array of receivers. Multiple receivers introduce variations in arrival times that can be less than the period of an operating signal, and also less than ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7819806 | System and method to identify and measure organ wall boundaries Systems and methods are described for acquiring, processing, and presenting boundaries of a cavity-tissue interface within a region-of-interest in an ultrasound image based upon the strength of signals of ultrasound echoes returning from structures within the region... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7815570 | Non-invasive ultrasonic body contouring A methodology and system for lysing adipose tissue including directing ultrasonic energy at a multiplicity of target volumes within the region, which target volumes contain adipose tissue, thereby to selectively lyse the adipose tissue in the target volumes and gene... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7798963 | Method for synchronization of breathing signal with the capture of ultrasound data A method for producing an ultrasound image comprises monitoring the subject's respiration cycle or waveform, acquiring ultrasound data from the subject, producing an ultrasound image from the received ultrasound data received during the time when the subject's motio... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7789830 | Thrombus detecting apparatus, thrombus treating apparatus and methods therefor A thrombus detecting apparatus provided with: a transducer (10), which is attached to a monitor portion of a subject and transmits and receives ultrasonic waves, a transmitter and receiver unit (11), which transmits and applies driving pulses to the tr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7789832 | Ultrasound system and method for controlling steering angles of scan lines An ultrasound system comprises: a probe having a transducer array of n transducer elements for transmitting ultrasound signals, said n transducer elements being associated with respective scan lines; a steering angle calculating unit for calculating steering angles ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7789831 | Synthetic elevation aperture for ultrasound systems and methods Using configurable arrays, synthetic aperture processes may be used along an elevation dimension for increasing resolution. The increased resolution is used for two-dimensional or three-dimensional imaging. Alternatively or additionally, wide band synthetic elevatio... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7780597 | Method and apparatus for improving the performance of capacitive acoustic transducers using bias polarity control and multiple firings Presented is a method of operating a capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) array with multiple firings of varying bias voltage polarity patterns to improve its performance in imaging non-linear media, such as in contrast agent imaging or tissue har... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7780596 | Non-invasive health monitor The time between heartbeats is measured over a series of such heartbeats. The time interval between two successive events is calculated and stored as a first array. The time difference between adjacent heartbeat intervals is also calculated from the first array and ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775979 | Transmit and receive interface array for highly integrated ultrasound scanner An ultrasonic transducer probe having a highly integrated interface circuit array. Low-voltage transmit control signals from the system are transmitted on the system transmit channels via the ultrasound probe cable and into the interface circuit array. These transmi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775977 | Ultrasonic tomographic diagnostic apparatus This ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an image constructing circuit (31) for creating plural ultrasonic tomographic images resulting from a process in which an ultrasonic endoscope moves within a body cavity, a position detecting portion (13) f... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775978 | Cyclical information determination with medical diagnostic ultrasound Without using ECG input signals or processor intensive correlation, cyclical timing is determined from ultrasound data. Cyclical timing includes determining the time of end diastole, time of end systole or heart rate. The ultrasound data is reduced, such as by proje... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7771355 | System and method for medical imaging with robust mode switching via serial channel In one embodiment of the invention, there is an ultrasound processing system that communicates images over a single asynchronous serial channel according to a scheme that does not require an isochronous serial channel and that switches among ultrasound imaging modes... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7771354 | High frame rate three dimensional ultrasound imager A three dimensional ultrasound imaging device, having an interpolator that creates up sampled ultrasound image information from a three dimensional ultrasound image information using interpolation; and a memory that stores at least one of the three dimensional ultra... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7749165 | Instantaneous ultrasonic echo measurement of bladder volume with a limited number of ultrasound beams An apparatus and methods to quantify the volume of urine in a human bladder with a limited number of acoustic beams is disclosed. In a first version a plurality of narrow ultrasound beams is transmitted in different directions towards the bladder. Returning echoes a... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7744533 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises a unit for generating image data, an image reconstructing unit and an image synthesizing unit. The unit for generating image data generates image data for displaying a tomogram of a subject by luminance according to signa... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744532 | Coherence factor adaptive ultrasound imaging methods and systems Ultrasound imaging adapts as a function of a coherence factor. Various beamforming, image forming or image processing parameters are varied as a function of a coherence factor to improve detail resolution, contrast resolution, dynamic range or SNR. For example, a be... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744534 | 3D ultrasound-based instrument for non-invasive measurement of amniotic fluid volume A hand-held 3D ultrasound instrument is disclosed which is used to non-invasively and automatically measure amniotic fluid volume in the uterus requiring a minimum of operator intervention. Using a 2D image-processing algorithm, the instrument gives automatic feedba... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7740583 | Time delay estimation method and system for use in ultrasound imaging A method for correcting a time delay between at least two signals in ultrasound systems is provided. The ultrasound system comprises a beamformer processor comprising a summer coupled to the transducer array and configured for performing a complex operation on a fir... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7740582 | Ultrasonic operating apparatus An ultrasonic operating apparatus of the present invention includes an apparatus main body having a vibration driving circuit for generating a driving signal to apply ultrasonic vibrations to a vibration generating portion of a hand piece and having a control portio... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7736314 | Ultrasonic technique for assessing wall vibrations in stenosed blood vessels A real-time signal processing technique for ultrasonic imaging of tissue vibrations for localizing the source of a bruit in a 2D image with respect to the anatomy and/or for obtaining simultaneous information about vibrations and the underlying blood flow. The bruit... | 06/15/2010 |
