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7604600 |
Ultrasonic imaging device
An ultrasonic imaging device for transmitting/receiving ultrasonic pulses to/from a living body in which microbubbles for contrast are introduced and forming a contrast image of the inside of the...
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7604595 |
Method and system for performing real time navigation of ultrasound volumetric data
An ultrasound system is provided that includes a display processor that accesses data volumes stored in an image buffer successively to control generation of at least one of 2D and 3D renderings...
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7549961 |
System and method supporting imaging and monitoring applications
The present invention is directed to a system and method in which a portable medical device supports simultaneous imaging and monitoring applications. This portable device includes an external...
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7543480 |
System and method for ultrasonic measuring of particle properties
Devices, systems and methods for measuring and detecting properties of a variety of particles or cells in suspension. Properties, such as, for example, velocity of particles, concentration and/or...
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7536644 |
Method and system for facilitating selection of stored medical images
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method and system for facilitating selection of stored medical images. In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of medical images are stored,...
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7455640 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
A tomographic image and a tissue characteristic image that are in conformity with each other in terms of time-phase and positional relationships can be displayed superimposedly, thereby providing...
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7371218 |
Immersive portable ultrasound system and method
A portable ultrasound system provides immersive viewing of images. A small, lightweight scope includes a transducer and a display. The display is adapted for viewing ultrasound images close to the...
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7354400 |
Ultrasonographic method and ultrasonographic device
An ultrasonographic method includes: a first encoding transmission/reception step for transmitting an ultrasonic beam encoded by an encoding set consisting of a plurality of modulation codes in...
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7229411 |
Imaging, therapy, and temperature monitoring ultrasonic system
An ultrasonic system useful for providing imaging, therapy and temperature monitoring generally comprises an acoustic transducer assembly configured to enable the ultrasound system to perform the...
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7142905 |
Visual imaging system for ultrasonic probe
A non-invasive visual imaging system is provided, wherein the imaging system procures an image of a transducer position during diagnostic or therapeutic treatment. In addition, the system suitably...
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7103205 |
Breast cancer screening with ultrasound image overlays
An adjunctive ultrasound mammography system and associated methods are described in which an ultrasound image being displayed near an x-ray mammogram image may be superimposed thereon or thereunder...
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7074187 |
System and method for improving ultrasound image acquisition and replication for repeatable measurements of vascular structures
High resolution B-mode ultrasound images of the common carotid artery are obtained with an ultrasound transducer using a standardized methodology. Subjects are supine with the head counter-rotated...
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7044913 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises an ultrasound probe, a transmitter (including a transmitting pulse generator and a transmitting beamformer), a receiver (including a preamplifier and a...
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6970585 |
Real-time dynamic image reconstruction
A method for modifying a planar image slice in a CT scanner having a predetermined reconstruction angle, comprising: reconstructing an image of the slice using initial X-ray attenuation data...
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6896658 |
Simultaneous multi-mode and multi-band ultrasonic imaging
An ultrasound imaging method and system configured to simultaneously acquire and process multi-mode and multi-band echo information from a single set of pulse firings is provided. Raw ultrasound...
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6884216 |
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and ultrasound image display method and apparatus
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprising an ultrasound probe which includes ultrasound transducers, transmission/reception unit, a physiological characteristic image data generating unit which...
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6793625 |
Method and apparatus for concurrently displaying respective images representing real-time data and non real-time data
A method and apparatus for concurrently displaying respective images representing real-time data and non-real-time data operates by receiving non-real-time data and receiving real-time data. A...
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6743176 |
Ultrasonic image display apparatus and ultrasonic image display method
For the purpose of improving monitor display condition operating ease and enabling easy display of an arbitrary site, an ultrasonic image based on an echo signal received by an ultrasonic probe 3 ...
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6692438 |
Ultrasonic imaging system and method for displaying tissue perfusion and other parameters varying with time
A method and system for displaying a parametric image showing tissue perfusion includes an ultrasonic imaging system coupled to an ECG device. The ECG device triggers the imaging system to obtain...
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6673018 |
Ultrasonic monitoring system and method
Apparatus and methods for use in a diagnostic ultrasound system are disclosed. A display device has a first window for displaying live ultrasound images and a second window for displaying a...
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6638223 |
Operator interface for a medical diagnostic imaging device
A method for providing operator control over a medical diagnostic device includes the steps of assigning each device function in a preselected device function set that implements a preselected...
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6558324 |
System and method for strain image display
A region of interest (ROI) of a patient's body is repeatedly scanned using an ultrasound transducer array. Data sets representing an image property, such as intensity, from portions of the ROI are...
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6540679 |
Visual imaging system for ultrasonic probe
A non-invasive visual imaging system is provided, wherein the imaging system procures an image of a transducer position during diagnostic or therapeutic treatment. In addition, the system suitably...
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6537217 |
Method and apparatus for improved spatial and temporal resolution in ultrasound imaging
A method is provided to simultaneously acquire two ultrasound images. A first set of ultrasound pulses are transmitted at a first frame rate utilizing a first mode of operation. The echoes from the...
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6468212 |
User control interface for an ultrasound processor
The virtual control user interface for an ultrasound processor includes a software driven display obtained from a memory unit in the ultrasound processor and displayed on a display monitor (part of...
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6459925 |
User interface system for mammographic imager
The present invention provides for x-ray imaging and ultrasound imaging of a body region of interest in a spatially correlatable manner. The resultant x-ray and ultrasound images may be...
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6450962 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic methods and apparatus for generating images from multiple 2D slices
A method and systems for obtaining 2D ultrasound images. The methods may comprise the steps of receiving ultrasonic information from a volumetric region of a body, volume scan converting the...
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6413217 |
Ultrasound enlarged image display techniques
In an ultrasound scanner ( 90 ), signals responsive to received ultrasound waves are processed by a B-mode processor ( 222 ) and a computer ( 232 ). The data processed by the B-mode processor ( 222...
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6354997 |
Method and apparatus for frequency control of an ultrasound system
A method and system for acquiring data in an ultrasound system are provided. A transducer is operatively connected to a transmit beamformer and a receive beamformer. The receive beamformer is...
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6336044 |
Reliable body fat measurement in self-service health parameter Measuring system
In a self-service health parameter measuring apparatus and method, a person's elbow is placed at a spatial reference point, and means surrounding a user's forearm locate an infrared body fat...
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6217517 |
Ultrasound imaging with zoom having independent processing channels
A system and method for simultaneously displaying an ultrasound image of an area of interest and a magnified portion of the image are disclosed. Pixel locations on the display device are translated...
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6203498 |
Ultrasonic imaging device with integral display
A hand held ultrasonic imaging device is provided as an integral unit with all components and circuitry necessary for both image acquisition and image display included in a single enclosure....
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RE37088 |
Method for generating anatomical M-mode displays
A method for generating anatomical M-Mode displays for ultrasonic investigation of living biological structures during movement of the structure, for example a heart function, employing an...
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6186950 |
Ultrasonic pulse inversion harmonic separation with reduced motional effects
Pulse inversion harmonic separation is performed utilizing echoes from three or more pulses of alternating phase or polarity. Temporally different echoes of opposite phase or polarity are combined...
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6176828 |
Method and apparatus for optimal data mapping of power doppler images
A method and an apparatus for color mapping of flow power data in which the flow states containing information of most interest to the user are enhanced, while flow states not containing...
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6159151 |
Method for the processing of signals relating to an object having moving parts and echographic device for carrying out this method
The invention concerns a signal processing method comprising: the acquisition of a first and a second set of data formed from signals respectively relating to first and second moving parts of an...
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6126601 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging in multiple modes using programmable signal processor
A method for configuring an ultrasound imaging system having a programmable signal processor and an operator interface. Application codes for programming the signal processor to process signals in...
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6099474 |
Ultrasound system for displaying real time simultaneous multiplane image
An ultrasound imaging system 20, including an ultrasound probe 22 and a console 26, creates a simultaneous multiplane image in real time. The system 20 includes an ultrasound probe 22 with an...
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6099471 |
Method and apparatus for real-time calculation and display of strain in ultrasound imaging
An ultrasound system and method for calculation and display of strain velocity in real time is disclosed. Strain velocity may be determined from tissue velocity. Tissue velocity determined by...
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6063030 |
PC based ultrasound device with virtual control user interface
The PC based ultrasound system utilizes a standard PC central processing unit or CPU (an Intel 486 processor or better), standard PC memory storage and retrieval components, a scan conversion board...
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6048312 |
Method and apparatus for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging of biopsy needle
A method and an apparatus for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging of a needle-like instrument, such as a biopsy needle, inserted in a human body. The instrument is visualized by transmitting...
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6015384 |
Ultrasonic system and method for tissue viability imaging
A method of imaging to aid tissue viability determinations is provided. Tissue motion is detected for at least region of tissue. Perfusion is estimated as a function of intensity data and time for...
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6004270 |
Ultrasound system for contrast agent imaging and quantification in echocardiography using template image for image alignment
A difference image processing scheme and contrast-only difference image processing scheme is provided for imaging anatomic structures or vessels which have periodic physiological motion that define...
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6001061 |
Ultrasonic measurement apparatus
At a measuring time, when at least one desired measurement category is selected from among a plurality of measurement categories associated with an ultrasonic image, at least one measurement item...
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5961460 |
Ultrasound imaging enhancement methods and systems
An ultrasonic imaging system generates Doppler and B-mode image signals, and then uses a modulated, non-linear mapping function to combine the Doppler and B-mode image signals into an output...
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5911133 |
User interface for echocardiographic report generation
A computer-implemented user interface for generating an echocardiographic report includes a patient menu screen from which a user can select an existing report to modify or create a new report....
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5882306 |
Ultrasound imaging methods and systems
An ultrasound imaging system generates a legend on a display device. This legend includes at least two axes and an array of display indicia, and the indicia are responsive to a mapping function...
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5855556 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
In an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, ultrasonic pulse beams are transmitted into an organism, ultrasonic waves reflected within the organism are received to obtain received signals, and an image...
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5813986 |
Method of identifying the time phase of the state of an organ to be observed, and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus based on the same
A ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, which is used to inspect the functioning of heart based on ultrasonic images sampled in the expansion period and the contraction period of the heart, includes...
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5777683 |
Ultrasonic imaging system adopting a non-interlaced scanning method
An ultrasonic imaging system for an ultrasonic imaging unit generating ultrasonic image data of an interlaced scanning mode, includes a display of a non-interlaced scanning mode and a scanning mode...
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