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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8430819 | System and method for ultrasound imaging with a configurable receive aperture A system and method of ultrasound imaging includes a beamformer including a plurality of channels, a two-dimensional transducer array including a plurality of elements, and a plurality of signal pathways linking the plurality of elements to the plurality of channels... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8343054 | Methods and apparatus for ultrasound imaging Systems and methods are described to create a plurality of ultrasound images of an area, each of the plurality of ultrasound images acquired using a respective beam steering angle, determine, for each of a plurality of image pixel locations in each of the plurality ... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8303506 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic imaging method and program An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in which one of an imaging method with advantageous time resolution and an imaging method with advantageous spatial resolution can be selectively used according to an imaging object. The apparatus includes a transmission control un... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8303505 | Methods and apparatuses for image guided medical procedures Methods and apparatuses for the image guidance and documentation of medical procedures. One embodiment includes combining small field of view images into a recorded image of with a large field of view and aligning the small field of view real time image with the rec... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8282558 | Ultrasound system and method for ultrasound data An ultrasound system and method for forming ultrasound data corresponding to a receive scan line independent of a synthetic aperture. The ultrasound system includes the ultrasound data forming unit configured to: form scan line data corresponding to each of the rece... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8241217 | Portable ultrasound imaging data A portable ultrasound imaging system includes a scan head coupled by a cable to a portable battery-powered data processor and display unit. The scan head enclosure houses an array of ultrasonic transducers and the circuitry associated therewith, including pulse sync... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8235907 | Ultrasonic medical device and associated method A medical system includes a carrier and a multiplicity of electromechanical transducers mounted to the carrier, the transducers being disposable in effective pressure-wave-transmitting contact with a patient. Energization componentry is operatively connected to a fi... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8226563 | Receive circuit for minimizing channels in ultrasound imaging Receive circuits and associated methods are provided for ultrasound imaging. Both subarray mixing and time division multiplexing are provided with a same circuit. Components of the receive circuit respond to either phasing or time slot information to implement subar... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8197412 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in which degradation in calculation accuracy and increase in calculation time can be prevented while an ultrasonic image with high resolving power is generated by using appropriate acoustic velocities for respective regions within ... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8187192 | Method and apparatus for scan conversion and interpolation of ultrasonic linear array steering imaging A method and apparatus for scan conversion and interpolation of linear array steering imaging in an ultrasonic system are disclosed. The method computes the points that are most related to the point to be interpolated in the principal direction of the point spread f... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8182427 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and ultrasonic imaging method An ultrasonic imaging apparatus captures a plurality of B-mode images of a same cross section respectively by a plurality of linear scans with different directional ultrasonic beams and creates and displays a compound image from the plurality of B-mode images. The u... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177718 | Linear array ultrasound transducer with variable patch boundaries An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system has a two dimensional array arranged in multiple patches of multiple transducer elements. Each patch of transducer elements is coupled to a group of microbeamformer delay lines having outputs which can be coupled to a selected... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172755 | Fractional delay filter-based beamformer apparatus using post filtering A beamforming apparatus is provided for improving beamforming accuracy by employing fractional delay filters in an interpolation process and reducing hardware complexity by using post-filtering technique. The beamforming apparatus of the present invention includes a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8157739 | Ultrasound imaging with synthetic receive aperture and wide aperture, focused transmit beam A method and an instrument for ultrasound imaging using an array of transducer elements which is connected to the instrument with a limited number of wires, where focusing of the transmit beam improves image signal to noise ratio above state of the art methods. This... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8096951 | Transmit beamforming in 3-dimensional ultrasound An ultrasound system comprises a probe including a two-dimensional (2D) array of transducer elements that form an aperture having a plurality of receive elements that are configured to receive ultrasound signals. The transducer elements form at least one transmit su... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8066642 | Systems and methods for ultrasound beam forming data control Disclosed are systems and methods which efficiently control storage of and/or access to data which includes repetitive data or data which is used by different modes, processes, etcetera. Embodiments provide control for storage of and/or access to large amounts of da... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8038620 | Fresnel zone imaging system and method A method for Fresnel zone imaging is provided. The method comprises identifying a plurality of constructive regions and a plurality of destructive regions in an energy transmitting device and converting the destructive regions to the constructive regions by using an... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8002708 | Ultrasound beamformer with scalable receiver boards A beamformer for an ultrasound system and a method for developing a beamformer are provided. The beamformer includes an RF interface configured to be connected to receiver boards that are connected to a probe. The method includes providing receiver boards, wherein e... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7981039 | Receive circuit for minimizing channels in ultrasound imaging Receive circuits and associated methods are provided for ultrasound imaging. Both subarray mixing and time division multiplexing are provided with a same circuit. Components of the receive circuit respond to either phasing or time slot information to implement subar... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7972270 | Ultrasound imaging apparatus and method having two dimensional focus An ultrasound imaging apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe configured to transmit an ultrasonic beam to an object and receive a reflective ultrasonic signal, a controller configured to control the ultrasonic probe such that the ultrasonic beam is focused on focus ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7963919 | Ultrasound imaging transducer array for synthetic aperture Synthetic transmit aperture is provided for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging. A transducer may have separate transmit and receive elements. Broad beams are transmitted, allowing fewer transmit elements and/or more rapid scanning. A multidimensional receive array... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7955264 | System and method for providing communication between ultrasound scanners System and method for ganged ultrasound scanners is described. The described system includes a plurality of ultrasound scanners configured as a network and at least one connector for connecting a single ultrasound probe to the plurality of ultrasound scanners. The c... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7927280 | Curved 2-D array ultrasound transducer and method for volumetric imaging An ultrasound imaging system includes an imaging probe having an array of transducer elements that is flat and relatively elongated in the azimuth direction and is curved outwardly in the elevation direction. As a result, when the transducer elements are scanned in ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7918797 | Ultrasound diagnostic system and method for forming multiple receiving scan lines Embodiments of the present invention may provide an ultrasound imaging system and method for forming multiple receiving scan lines from one original receiving scan line. Ultrasound signals reflected from one original receiving scan line are converted into analog sig... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7914456 | Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic elasticity imaging device An ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound wave transmit/receive surface coming into contact with a contact surface of a subject, an ultrasound wave transmit/receive section which transmits an ultrasound wave to the subject via the ultrasound wave transmit/receive s... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7901358 | High frequency array ultrasound system A system for acquiring an ultrasound signal comprises a signal processing unit adapted for acquiring a received ultrasound signal from an ultrasound transducer having a plurality of elements. The system is adapted to receive ultrasound signals having a frequency of ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7850611 | System and methods for improved 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 ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7846099 | Apparatus, system, and method for providing a continuous scanning sequence for ultrasound imaging A method of performing a scanning sequence for an ultrasound scan includes establishing a number of ultrasound beams to be transmitted during an ultrasound scan, establishing a pulse repetition interval to be used for performing the ultrasound scan, and establishing... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7803114 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and data processing method therefor A data processing method for the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, according to the present invention includes: acquiring data corresponding to the same predetermined depth, out of a plurality of pieces of ultrasonic data acquired by performing the plurality of times... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7803115 | Method and apparatus for multiple transmit contrast imaging A method for measuring a non-linear response from a target using an imaging apparatus includes transmitting a signal towards a region of interest from a transducer at a first amplitude and measuring a first response thereto, and transmitting, from the transducer tow... | 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 |
| 7785260 | Ultrasonograph An ultrasonograph capable of generating a transmission beam comprising a main beam having a uniform width over a wide range in an ultrasonic wave propagation direction by one-time transmission of an ultrasonic pulse. A weighted mean value of a plurality of transmiss... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780601 | Adaptive clinical marker preservation in spatial compound ultrasound imaging Clinical markers are adaptively identified in steered spatial compounding ultrasound imaging. Motion is detected. The use or determination of the clinical marker information adapts to the amount of motion. If sufficient motion is detected, the contribution of clinic... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775981 | Contrast imaging beam sequences for medical diagnostic ultrasound A transmit sequence for contrast agent imaging that improves sensitivity and minimizes image artifacts. The number of pulses and the interleaving of spatially distinct pulses between spatially co-linear pulses are selected such that a substantially similar pulse seq... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7758509 | Multiple scan-plane ultrasound imaging of objects A method of real time ultrasound imaging of an object in at least three two-dimensional scan planes that are rotated around a common axis, is given, together with designs of ultrasound transducer arrays that allows for such imaging. The method is also introduced int... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7758508 | Ultrasound-imaging systems and methods for a user-guided three-dimensional volume-scan sequence An ultrasound-imaging system and method is provided that permits an operator to acquire an image of a volume-of-interest in a time critical fashion, that is capable of referencing the volume rendering to a standard two-dimensional imaging mode, and permits the opera... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7722541 | Multiple receive beams for rapid acquisition Multiple receive beams are formed for each transmission for rapid acquisition. The receive aperture is shifted as a function of the position of each receive beam. Multiple receive beams with differently positioned apertures are formed in response to a single transmi... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7717851 | Ultrasonic observation apparatus having multi-beam scan function An ultrasonic observation apparatus in which the frame rate can be made higher than that in a mechanical or conventional electronic scan method. The ultrasonic observation apparatus includes: an ultrasonic endoscope including ultrasonic transducers; a transmission a... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7695438 | Acoustic disruption minimizing systems and methods Unipolar, bipolar or sinusoidal transmitters may leave the transmitter in any of various states at the end of one pulse. Undesired acoustic energy may be generated to change states prior to beginning another transmit sequence or pulse. For example, phase inversion f... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7691063 | Receive circuit for minimizing channels in ultrasound imaging Receive circuits and associated methods are provided for ultrasound imaging. Both subarray mixing and time division multiplexing are provided with a same circuit. Components of the receive circuit respond to either phasing or time slot information to implement subar... | 04/06/2010 |
