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6295464 |
Apparatus and method for dynamic modeling of an object
A method and apparatus for dynamic modeling of an object having material points. The method includes receiving signals from a sensor which correspond to respective material points; providing a...
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6293912 |
Ultrasound scanner with beam former
The apparatus for examining an object by means of ultrasound has an emitting transducer and a receiving transducer with a plurality of transducer elements. Electrical signals from the receiving...
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6292681 |
Combined motor drive and automated longitudinal position translator for ultrasonic imaging system
A vascular imaging system with an automated longitudinal position translator includes a drive unit with a single motor to provide for rotational and longitudinal translation of a drive-cable and...
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6287258 |
Method and apparatus for medical ultrasound flash suppression
An ultrasonic imaging system that reduces image flashes by selectively replacing imaging parameters with corresponding imaging parameters from prior time sequences. Imaging parameters include...
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6287257 |
Method and system for configuring a medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method and system for configuring a medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system. In one preferred embodiment, an ultrasound system analyzes...
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6283917 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with blurring corrected spatial compounding
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is are described in which the component ultrasonic images which are to be spatially compounded are corrected for misregistration prior to compounding. The...
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6277073 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging method and system using simultaneously transmitted ultrasound beams
A multifocus ultrasonic imaging system transmits two or more successive multifocus beams in order to increase the number of separate focal zones along a given scan line. The operating conditions...
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6277074 |
Method and apparatus for motion estimation within biological tissue
A method for motion estimation within biological tissue is disclosed. The method involves acoustically coupling a transducer to a target biological tissue, which transducer emits an ultrasonic...
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6273857 |
Method and system for correlating exam worksheet values to supporting measurements
A method and a system for storing and managing dimensional measurement values and the underlying ultrasound images utilize a report generator that operates to generate an examination report of an...
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6264607 |
Test object geometry for ultrasound transmission calibration
A cylindrical test object for use in calibrating an ultrasonic bone analyzer has opposing ends that each contain a transducer seat optimized to allow intimate acoustic contact in spite of...
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6261231 |
Hands-free ultrasound probe holder
The present invention relates to an apparatus for holding a probe and a method for using the same. The apparatus comprises a body portion having a longitudinal bore and a membrane holder positioned...
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6262749 |
Ultrasonic system and method for data transfer, storage and/or processing
An apparatus and method for processing ultrasound data is provided. The apparatus includes an interface operatively connected to a memory, a programmable single instruction multiple data processor...
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6258028 |
Portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for veterinary activity
A portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus can be worn and carried on the shoulder, so that an activity for diagnosing a health condition...
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6248069 |
Ultrasound imaging system and method using a quantum well-device for enabling optical interconnections
An ultrasound imaging system having an ultrasonic probe including an array of ultrasonic transducers is provided. The imaging system further includes a plurality of interconnect channels for...
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6248068 |
Ultrasonic monitor
An apparatus is disclosed for the non-contact monitoring of the movement of a person and includes an electrical reference signal generator, an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver. A...
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6241673 |
Diagnostic medical ultrasound system with wireless communication device
A diagnostic medical ultrasound system with wireless communication device is provided. With these preferred embodiments, an ultrasound system can be made more portable by offloading ultrasound...
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6238341 |
Ultrasound probe having integrated user-operable function switch
An ultrasound probe having an integrated user-operable switch mechanism with two or more positions for respectively requesting activation of a single function or multiple functions. For example,...
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6238386 |
Method and arrangement for invasive or endoscopic therapy by utilizing ultrasound and laser
Sound energy of a proximally arranged sound source 30 and laser radiation of a therapeutic laser 17 are simultaneously transmitted with an endoscopic instrument via flexible waveguides 3 into the...
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6238342 |
Ultrasonic tissue-type classification and imaging methods and apparatus
Clinical data, ultrasonic radio frequency (RF) backscatter spectral data and histological results of corresponding biopsy sites are stored in a database and are used to train a classifier suitable...
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6238343 |
Quality assurance ultrasound phantoms
An ultrasound phantom is adapted to provide multiple testing capabilities for quality assurance on ultrasound scanners. The phantom includes a section with an array of target spheres which allow...
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6236876 |
Navigable probe and motor control apparatus
A motor control apparatus (1) for articulating a probe (3) is constructed with a reversible motor (10) and at least one tension adjusting cable (4) to articulate the probe (3).
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6236878 |
Method for predictive modeling for planning medical interventions and simulating physiological conditions
A method for predictive modeling of human anatomy and physiologic function for planning medical interventions on at least one portion of a body with the goals of improving the outcome of the...
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6233481 |
Diagnostic application of sono-chemical excitation of fluorescent photosensitizers
Disclosed is a method for generating an image of a selected area of tissue, the method includes steps of: (a) providing a fluorescent photosensitizer compound in combination with a...
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6231508 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with digital video image marking
A digital video recorder is provided which provides digital storage of realtime ultrasonic image sequences, replacing the conventional VCR with a recorder which does not degrade digital ultrasound...
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6233478 |
Apparatus and method for constructing computed tomography image slices of an object undergoing cyclic motion
Apparatus and method are provided for constructing image slices through a selected object undergoing a cyclic motion wherein a scanner is used for collecting image data associated with the selected...
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6228029 |
Method for the identification of persons
An identification of persons is conducted on the basis of the sweat gland channel structures in the horny layer of the skin of a finger. For that purpose, ultrasound waves are transmitted into the...
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6228028 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound image reconstruction
The ultrasound imaging system and method of the present invention defines the gray-scale value and other parameters for each of a plurality of image elements in an output volume by determining all...
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6226546 |
Catheter localization system and method for performing medical diagnostics
A catheter localization system for generating information appertaining to a three dimensional map of a part of a human or animal body from which three dimensional map a position of said catheter...
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6224553 |
Method and apparatus for the assessment and display of variability in mechanical activity of the heart, and enhancement of ultrasound contrast imaging by variability analysis
This invention is a method of evaluating the mechanical variability of the heart activity by assessment of the variability of cardiologic echo Doppler images, and of enhancing contrast ultrasound...
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6224552 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with reduced spatial compounding seam artifacts
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces spatially compounded images by combining component frames acquired from different look directions. Different regions of the spatially compounded...
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6224551 |
Ultrasound image data archiving and communication techniques
Local storage of image data from ultrasound devices is transmitted through local controllers and through a network to a central controller which stores the data in a central data base storage...
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6217516 |
System and method for configuring the locus of focal points of ultrasound beams
The invention provides a method for controlling, in an ultrasound system, the loci of maximum power regions (e.g., focal points) of plural transmit lines of an ultrasound scan. Initially, a region...
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6217515 |
Image display method and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
In order that an image observed last is ensured to be re-displayed even if an operator inadvertently misses a command to save the image before releasing freeze, an image save processing is...
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6210327 |
Method and apparatus for sending ultrasound image data to remotely located device
A computerized ultrasound imager is programmed with software that enables a "Live Imaging" mode. "Live Imaging" refers to the ability to keep a network association (between the imager and a remote...
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6212421 |
Method and apparatus of spectro-acoustically enhanced ultrasonic detection for diagnostics
An apparatus for detecting a discontinuity in a material includes a source of electromagnetic radiation has a wavelength and an intensity sufficient to induce an enhancement in contrast between a...
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6210328 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with variable spatial compounding
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described in which the number of acquired ultrasonic images which are compounded to form a spatially compounded image is variable. The number...
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6210329 |
Apparatus for organizing, transporting, and facilitating the use of obstetrical and other medical devices and supplies
An apparatus for organizing, transporting, and using medical devices and supplies during obstetrical evaluations, comprising a portable housing with an alarm system for contents thereof, a base...
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6206842 |
Ultrasonic operation device
A medical device for treating the hemorrhoid or airway obstructions by reducing the mass of cellular tissues, wherein an elongate tubular shaft includes at least one ultrasonic transducer means...
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6205352 |
Sentinel node identification using non-isotope means
A method for identifying a sentinel node is provided. The method includes injecting tumor-bearing tissue with a marking composition, radiating marking-agent-targeting energy into suspect tissues...
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6196973 |
Flow estimation using an ultrasonically modulated contrast agent
Reflectors such as microbubbles in a contrast agent introduced into a blood vessel of a patient are destroyed (or otherwise acoustically altered) using focused ultrasound at a modulation point...
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6193658 |
Method and kit for wound evaluation
A method and kit for the evaluation of wounds or ulcers (14) using ultrasound that allows an examiner to measure a wound (14) along with adjacent soft tissue structures (16) and bone (22) including...
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6193657 |
Image based probe position and orientation detection
An imaging system and method for determining sensor position and orientation with respect to an object having a known three dimensional structure is disclosed. The sensor acquires an image of the...
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6190319 |
Self calibrating linear position sensor
A rotor is disposed coaxially in a tubular housing and spaced therefrom to define a gap for receiving a fluid. An ultrasonic transducer is mounted at one end of the housing in alignment with a...
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6190915 |
Ultrasound phantoms
An improved ultrasound phantom includes a container having a window covered by an ultrasound transmitting window cover that seals and protects a water based tissue mimicking material within the...
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6190318 |
Device and method for the ultrasonic detection of smooth surface lesions on tooth crown surfaces
A device and method for the detection of smooth surface lesions such as caries and tooth crown surface cracks on a tooth crown surface, the device having an ultrasonic surface wave...
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6183426 |
Ultrasonic wave applying apparatus
An ultrasonic wave applying apparatus which is safe and convenient for use. The apparatus includes an hand-held applicator having a vibration element which is, in use, contact with a skin of a user...
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6183502 |
Blood flow blocking method and warming apparatus
In order to choke a capillary vessel of a man with an expanded microballoon, a microballoon 1 is injected into a blood flow system of a man 12, and the microballoon 1 is expanded by warming a...
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6181810 |
Method and apparatus for spatial and temporal filtering of intravascular ultrasonic image data
A method and an apparatus are provided for combining spatial and temporal filtering for blood speckle reduction in high frequency ultrasound images wherein a sequence of image frames is processed...
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6179780 |
Method and apparatus for medical diagnostic ultrasound real-time 3-D transmitting and imaging
A medical diagnostic ultrasound real-time 3-D transmitting and imaging system generates multiple transmit beam sets using a 2-D transducer array. Each transmit beam set includes multiple...
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6176840 |
Ultrasonic cosmetic treatment device
Since the electrical impedance of an ultrasonic vibrator may vary according to the contact or non-contact of an application member with the skin, a detection circuit detects the contact or...
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