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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8021302 | Ultrasonic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic method An ultrasonic apparatus has a pulse transmission and reception unit, an envelope curve detection unit, a time difference detection unit, and an attenuation characteristic obtaining unit. The pulse transmission and reception unit transmits a first transmitted pulse t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8012093 | Ultra sound system for forming strain images with instantaneous frequency There is provided an ultrasound system for forming strain images by decreasing decorrelation of receive signals, which vary with time or space. More specifically, the decorrelation between the receive signals obtained without and with applying stress to a target obj... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7946988 | Medical diagnostic ultrasound contrast agent destruction with reduced biological effect Contrast agent destruction transmissions have reduced biological effect in medical diagnostic ultrasound. Ramping-up amplitude and/or ramping-down frequency reduce biological effect. The amplitude ramps up linearly or non-linearly. The change in amplitude or frequen... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7854701 | Non-invasive monitoring of intracranial dynamic effects and brain density fluctuations The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for non-invasive monitoring of brain density variations. At least two ultrasonic pulses having different frequencies are provided into the brain for transmission therethrough. The reflected ultrasonic pulses ar... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7775980 | Displacement measurement method and apparatus, strain measurement method and apparatus, elasticity and visco-elasticity constants measurement apparatus, and the elasticity and visco-elasticity constants measurement apparatus-based treatment apparatus The present invention provides elastic constant and visco elastic constant measurement apparatus etc. for measuring in the ROI in living tissues elastic constants such as shear modulus, Poisson's ratio, Lame constants, etc., visco elastic constants such as visco she... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7666138 | Ultrasonic transmitting and receiving apparatus and ultrasonic transmitting and receiving method An ultrasonic transmitting and receiving apparatus capable of obtaining high quality ultrasonic images with reduced effect of side lobes. The apparatus includes: an ultrasonic transducer array including ultrasonic transducers; a drive signal generating unit for gene... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7611465 | Rapid and accurate detection of bone quality using ultrasound critical angle reflectometry The present invention is an apparatus, method and system for determining the coefficient of elasticity of a target by detecting determining simultaneously two or more critical-angle reflections of an ultrasound wave from the target using an ultrasound transducer tha... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7537566 | Bone strength measuring instrument and method A bone strength measuring instrument and method is provided for obtaining thickness values of cortical bone, cancellous bone and tissue in a human body part by applying an ultrasonic wave to a measured portion of the human body. Ultrasonic transmitters and receivers... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7517315 | System and method for determining the proximity between a medical probe and a tissue surface Methods and systems for determining a proximity between a medical probe (such as, e.g., the tip of the medical probe) having an ultrasound transducer and a tissue surface, is provided. The ultrasound transducer is operated in a first resonant mode to transmit a firs... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7473225 | Ultrasonic imaging system and method There are provided an ultrasonic imaging system and method which can correct a phase shift effect to image a real change in acoustic impedance in a living body. An ultrasonic probe transmits an ultrasonic beam to an object to receive an echo. A transmit beamf... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7347821 | Adaptive processing of contrast enhanced ultrasonic diagnostic images A method is described for automatically and accurately defining tissue borders within ultrasound imaging. A preferred embodiment described provides for accurately delineating endocardial and epicardial tissue borders during ultrasound imaging of the heart using cont... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7319639 | Acoustic concealed item detector The present invention is directed towards an acoustic concealed item detector and related methods for detection using acoustics. In an illustrative embodiment, a multi-frequency ultrasonic wave generator generates in a gaseous medium at least first and second ultras... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303529 | Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment and ultrasonic image generation method The difference frequency component between a first fundamental wave of frequency f and a second fundamental wave of frequency f2 is caused to interact with a second harmonic wave, thereby to attain the enhancement of a second harmonic signal, etc.,... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7291109 | Infant hydration monitor An infant hydration monitor includes a hand-held probe equipped with a pair of arms extending from a housing and incorporating a broadband ultrasonic transmitter and receiver. The arms include finger openings allowing the user to adjust the distance between the tran... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290451 | Status discriminating apparatus of human, animal, machine or the like using ultrasonic vibration detecting sensor, and status discriminating method of human, animal, machine or the like using the same A human or other status discriminating apparatus includes an ultrasonic vibration detecting sensor comprising a container main body, a liquid packed tightly in the container main body, and an ultrasonic vibrator for transmitting ultrasonic waves into the liquid and ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285092 | Computerized ultrasound risk evaluation system A method and system for examining tissue are provided in which the tissue is maintained in a position so that it may be insonified with a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves. The insonifying acoustic waves are scattered by the tissue so that ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280125 | Image display apparatus In an image display apparatus, image data on which gradation conversion for compensating phosphor saturation has been carried out by a gradation convertor (200) undergoes voltage drop compensation and then amplitude regulation using a gain (Gd) before being f... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275439 | Parametric ultrasound imaging using angular compounding Parametric ultrasonic measurements which characterize the structure of tissue, using information from an ultrasonic signal beyond amplitude information, are obtained by combining multiple ultrasonic signals acquired at different angles, thereby reducing the variance... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275547 | Method and system for determining the location of a medical probe using a reference transducer array The present invention provides systems and methods for determining the coordinates of a location element mounted on a medical probe. First and second signals are transmitted between the location element and a first and second reference transducers, which may be arra... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258674 | Ultrasonic treatment and imaging of adipose tissue A system for the destruction of adipose tissue utilizing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) within a patient's body. The system comprises a controller for data storage and the operation and control of a plurality of elements. One elements is a means for mappin... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7240566 | Device for positioning a clamp-on flowmeter on a container An apparatus for the positioning of a clamp-on flow measuring device on a containment, which has a medium flowing through it. The apparatus includes at least two ultrasonic transducers, which emit measuring signals into the containment and/or receive measuring signa... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7217242 | Ultrasonic method for visualizing brachytheraphy seeds Methods are provided for enhancing the image of brachytherapy seeds implanted in tissue using a transrectal ultrasound apparatus. In a first arrangement the resonance of the seeds is determined and the seeds are insonified using acoustic signals having a resonance f... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212660 | System and method for finding regions of interest for microscopic digital montage imaging Imaging apparatuses and methods that capture a low-resolution image of a slide, identify a region of interest, and capture a high-resolution image of the region of interest. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7175599 | Shear mode diagnostic ultrasound A method of diagnosing a subject by delivering ultrasound signals using shear waves includes applying a portion of an ultrasound mainbeam to a bone surface at an incident angle relative to the surface of the bone to induce shear waves in the bone, energy in the shea... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175597 | Non-invasive tissue characterization system and method One embodiment of the present system and method is directed to the identification of tissues within a vascular object by analyzing ultrasound data collected from the vascular object by non-invasive scans. By identifying and characterizing types of tissue from ultras... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7169107 | Conductivity reconstruction based on inverse finite element measurements in a tissue monitoring system An impedance model of tissue is useful for describing conductivity reconstruction in tissue. Techniques for determining and mapping conductivity distribution in tissue supply useful information of anatomical and physiological status in various medical applications. ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166075 | Elastographic imaging of in vivo soft tissue Elastographic images provide visualization in two or three dimensions of RF ablation lesions to guide in the ablation process. Compression may be applied using the RF probe. A similar technique may be applied to in vivo imaging of soft tissue without ablation. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164940 | Therapeutic system A therapeutic system comprising a therapeutic applicator for treating living tissues and an observation unit for determining the position of the applicator. The therapeutic energy applied from the applicator to the living tissues is controlled in accordance with dat... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165010 | Vessel evaluation methods, apparatus, computer-readable media and signals Methods, apparatuses, media and signals for evaluating a vessel. One method includes receiving at least one measurement of a physical dimension of the vessel, and producing an indication of abnormality in the vessel, in response to the at least one received measurem... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7122007 | Methods of and systems and devices for assessing intracranial pressure non-invasively A non-invasive method and system for assessing intraocular pressure (ICP) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of measuring venous outflow pressure (VOP) using a venous ophthalmodynamometer device (vODM); measuring ophthalmic r central retinal arterial blood... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108424 | Method and apparatus for calibration of indirect measurement systems A calibration technique is presented for calibrating non-reference indirect measurement systems with respect to a reference indirect measurement system. A reference map function filling procedure fits a reference map function based on known values of a parameter of ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110583 | Ultrasonic diagnostic device and image processing device An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes an automatic contour extracting unit that contains an initial contour extracting unit for roughly extracting an initial contour of an object to be examined from an ultrasound image by performing a predetermined operation (suc... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104958 | Systems and methods for investigating intracranial pressure The invention relates to systems and methods for assessing blood flow in single or multiple vessels and segments, for assessing vascular health, for conducting clinical trials, for screening therapeutic interventions for effect, for assessing risk factors, for evalu... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7068827 | System and method of measuring fat content in target organ and recording medium of recording fat content measuring program A system and method capable of measuring the fat content in the target organ by the gray level distribution of pixels forming a ultrasonic section image and a recording medium of recording a fat content measuring program are disclosed. In order to quantify the fat c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7042218 | System and method for reducing auditory perception of noise associated with a medical imaging process A system and method for acoustic noise reduction/cancellation is disclosed that includes a medical imaging scanner configured to scan an imaging subject within an imaging area that emits system noise when in operation. An ultrasonic emitter system is included that i... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037263 | Computing spatial derivatives for medical diagnostic imaging methods and systems Spatial derivatives are computed. In one method, gradients are determined from data in an acoustic domain rather than a Cartesian or display coordinate domain. The gradients determined from data in the acoustic domain are then transformed to the Cartesian coordinate... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6990222 | Calibration of tissue densities in computerized tomography A hybrid calibration method uses an calibration phantom (exterior reference) scanned simultaneously with the patient, and one or more known tissues of the subject (interior reference) to create a hybrid calibration reference that improves the measurement of tissue d... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6976962 | Enhanced focusing of propagating waves by compensation for medium attenuation Improved focusing of waves is accomplished by compensation for attenuation effects in a medium. The invention is a combination of a method of attenuation leveling to allow operation over uneven surfaces and a method of signal compensation for attenuation that varies... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6963907 | Internet device operation for medical testing A method of operating an Internet device, includes downloading via the Internet a medical testing program from a server. At least one sensor is coupled to the Internet device. The sensor is attached or otherwise coupled to a patient. The Internet device executes the... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6949071 | Method for exploring and displaying tissue of human or animal origin from a high frequency ultrasound probe A method for displaying scanned ultrasound images of tissue employs an apparatus including an ultrasound probe mounted to a mechanical head. A three-dimensional positioning system mounts the head for positioning the probe in proximate orthogonal relation to the tiss... | 09/27/2005 |
