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RE38971 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method
According to an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a cross section of an examining human body having bubbles implanted as ultrasonic shadowing agent is scanned by an...
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6991605 |
Three-dimensional pictograms for use with medical images
The preferred embodiments described herein relate to three-dimensional pictograms and indicators for use with medical images. In one embodiment, a three-dimensional pictogram representing anatomy...
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6988991 |
Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging method and apparatus using lateral distance correlation function
Disclosed is a three-dimensional ultrasound image method and apparatus for reducing distortions of ultrasound images by precisely estimating a distance between consecutive two-dimensional frames...
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6984210 |
Diagnostic analysis of ultrasound data
A method and apparatus are provided for investigating tissue in which acoustic data are derived from scattering a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves from a plurality of...
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6984211 |
Detection of tumor halos in ultrasound images
A halo surrounding the ultrasonic image of a liver tumor is automatically evaluated by detecting the boundary of the tumor and defining two annular regions around that boundary. The brightness of...
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6980844 |
Method and apparatus for correcting a volumetric scan of an object moving at an uneven period
Method and apparatus for acquiring and processing a volumetric scan of a periodically moving object having uneven periods of time are included. A volumetric scan is performed of a periodically...
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6979292 |
Method and apparatus for forming an image that shows information about a subject
An apparatus includes an optical transmission unit which irradiates a subject to be examined with light containing a specific wavelength component, an electroacoustic conversion unit which receives...
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6980676 |
Medical imaging system
An imaging system including means for transmitting a digital image, an image base, a sensor, means for referencing positions on a dummy, echographic display means, means for recalculation of a...
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6976961 |
Tissue motion analysis medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method
Accurate tissue motion systems and methods are provided. Motion of the ultrasound transducer is accounted for in estimates at tissue motion. Correcting for transducer motion better isolates...
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6973830 |
Time-reversed photoacoustic system and uses thereof
A remote mass is excited by a plurality of beams generated sequentially by each one of a plurality of time reversal mirrors, and the surface vibrations of the excited mass are detected by a laser...
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6966878 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining a volumetric scan of a periodically moving object
Method and apparatus for acquiring and processing a volumetric scan of a periodically moving object. A volumetric scan is performed of the periodically moving object which repeats a cycle of...
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6964639 |
System and method of mapping irregularities of hard tissue
A system and method of mapping irregularities of hard tissue. The method includes repeatedly transmitting ultra-sonic energy towards the hard tissue at a first angle of incidence, registering the...
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6958041 |
Ultrasonic imaging device
An ultrasonic imaging arrangement performs tentative scanning of ultrasound to the inside of a living body with delay time corresponding to average sonic velocity, calculates delay time error in a...
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6957095 |
Imaging system for medical diagnosis
An apparatus for medical diagnostic imaging may include a database that relates help information with multiple types of attribute values and stores this information; an operations state acquisition...
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6953433 |
Protocol controller for a medical diagnostic imaging system
The embodiments described herein relate to a protocol controller for a medical diagnostic imaging system. In one embodiment, two or more distinct study protocols are active on a medical diagnostic...
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6951543 |
Automatic setup system and method for ultrasound imaging systems
A diagnostic ultrasound imaging system displays a gallery of ultrasound images each of which was obtained using a different setting for the imaging system. One of the images in the gallery is...
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6951542 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging of a biopsy needle or the like during an ultrasound imaging examination
A method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging of a biopsy needle or the like during an ultrasound imaging examination, including the steps of alternately performing one or more imaging scans with...
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6950112 |
Method and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional moving image
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for producing a three-dimensional (3D) moving image of a moving target object. The method comprises the steps of transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals...
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6945938 |
Systems and methods for evaluating objects with an ultrasound image
According to the invention, an object in an ultrasound image is characterized by considering various in-vivo object parameters and their variability within the ultrasonic imaging data....
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6939301 |
Automatic volume measurements: an application for 3D ultrasound
A method for determining the volume of an irregularly shaped body part or body such as a fetus using a 3D ultrasonic image composed of light and dark pixels. A caliper is placed on a portion whose...
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6937883 |
System and method for generating gating signals for a magnetic resonance imaging system
A magnetic resonance imaging system is disclosed to perform an imaging pulse sequence that acquires data to generate an image of at least a portion of the patient. The magnetic resonance imaging...
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6932770 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasonic imaging
A method for reducing speckle in an ultrasonic image formed from a digitized scan line including linearly arranged signal intensity data points obtained from ultrasonic energy reflected by...
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6928181 |
Method and system for biometric recognition using unique internal distinguishing characteristics
The present invention is a biometric recognition method and system for identifying humans and animals with acoustic scanning techniques. The invention is based upon transmitting acoustic energy...
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6923766 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic method
A beam forming and adding unit receives an echo signal containing reflection by a side lobe of an ultrasonic pulse, and executes its focusing. A fundamental wave BPF unit and a fundamental wave...
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6918875 |
Ultrasound measurement apparatus
An ultrasound wave is transmitted from a probe ( 120 ) to a moving reflector ( 130 ) and the reflected ultrasound wave is received back by the same probe ( 120 ). With n-divided wave bands of the...
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6913574 |
Method and apparatus for measuring elastic characteristics of a medium by using ultrasound images
A method and apparatus for measuring the elastic characteristics of a medium by estimating variations in the speckle patterns in ultrasound images. The method for measuring the elastic...
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6911008 |
Compound ultrasound imaging method
A compound ultrasound imaging method includes the steps of acquiring component frames with different scanline properties, such as different angles, scanline durations, control voltages, etc., and...
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6905467 |
Ultrasonic harmonic imaging system and method using waveform pre-distortion
Improvements to a method for imaging a target, which method including the steps of (a) transmitting ultrasonic energy at a fundamental frequency, (b) receiving reflected ultrasonic energy at a...
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6905468 |
Three-dimensional system for abdominal aortic aneurysm evaluation
A data collection device obtains three-dimensional ultrasound scan information of a portion of the abdominal aorta. A plurality of transducer elements are arranged to provide overlapping coverage....
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6899681 |
Automated power level for contrast agent imaging
Automated determination and setting of an ultrasound system transmit power level is provided for contrast agent imaging. Low mechanical index imaging of contrast agents allows substantially...
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6901278 |
Methods for reducing the risk of breast cancer in and improving the health of women
The subject invention provides methods for evaluating women in designing appropriate menopausal and postmenopausal therapies to match the particular needs of the individual. In one embodiment, the...
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6899679 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus and ultrasound imaging method
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus transmits ultrasonic pulses relevant to each scanning line twice, for example, while changing a center frequency of a bandwidth; acquires an electrical receiving...
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6893399 |
Method and apparatus for B-mode image banding suppression
Certain embodiments include a system and method for banding suppression in a B-mode ultrasound image. Banding occurs in a diagnostic image when two or more focal regions having different waveforms...
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6891963 |
Image display
In an image display apparatus capable of storing therein a small amount of images and also capable of displaying two sorts, or more of images within a short time period, an axial image 1 , a...
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6884217 |
System for aiming ultrasonic bladder instruments
The system includes a function for generating a plurality of ultrasound scan planes, each separated by a selected angle, to produce a scan cone having an ultrasound scan cone boundary for scanning...
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6878114 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic device
An ellipsoidal axes setting unit sets major and minor axis of an ellipsoid based on cross sectional position information and ellipsoidal parameters input by a user while viewing a display. A major...
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6878113 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and method for processing ultrasonic signal
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus acquires images different in a frequency. The invention is composed of a transducer including plural elements for sending an ultrasonic wave and receiving the...
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6872179 |
Medical diagnosis system having a medical diagnosis apparatus and a display to be observed by a patient
A medical diagnosis system wherein a medical image is produced in a medical diagnosis apparatus, comprises a first storage device which stores an examination procedure for the medical diagnosis...
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6872180 |
Device and process for quantifying bodies by means of ultrasound
In the quantification of bodies, especially bubbles, in ultrasonic diagnosis, the problem exists that the concentration of bodies, especially bubbles, is often so high that the image data that is...
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6866633 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasonic imaging using acoustic beamforming
A method and apparatus for ultrasonic imaging in which acoustic, and in particular ultrasonic, receiver beamforming utilizes delays which are partially determined as a function of the frequency of...
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6866632 |
Adaptive receive aperture for ultrasound image reconstruction
A method for adaptively determining reconstruction signals in an ultrasound system comprises determining a size of a receive aperture, comparing the size of receive aperture at each imaging point...
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6858010 |
Identifying clinical markers in spatial compounding ultrasound imaging
Methods and systems are provided for identifying clinical markers in spatial compounded imaging. For example, an image responsive to less spatial compounding more likely preserves clinical markers...
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6858007 |
Method and system for automatic classification and quantitative evaluation of adnexal masses based on a cross-sectional or projectional images of the adnex
A method of characterizing an adnexal mass is disclosed, the method is effected by (a) obtaining a cross-sectional or projectional image of an examined adnex including the adnexal mass; (b)...
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6855114 |
Automated method and system for the detection of abnormalities in sonographic images
A method of detecting a candidate abnormality in a sonographic medical image, based on determining a radial gradient index (RGI) at plural pixels, producing an RGI image, thresholding the RGI...
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6852081 |
Volume rendering in the acoustic grid methods and systems for ultrasound diagnostic imaging
Methods and systems for volume rendering three-dimensional ultrasound data sets in an acoustic grid using a graphics processing unit are provided. For example, commercially available graphic...
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6849048 |
Image processing device and ultrasonic diagnostic device
An image generation unit generates image data of a tomographic image based on an electric signal received from a send/receive unit through a control unit. An ROI setting unit sets an ROI to the...
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6835177 |
Ultrasonic blood vessel measurement apparatus and method
An apparatus and method for determining the apparent intima-media thickness (IMT) of arteries through acquisition and analysis of ultrasound images comprising an array of pixel intensities. An...
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6824518 |
High transmit power diagnostic ultrasound imaging
Methods and systems for improving an ultrasound image quality are provided. On demand transmission of unsustainably high power ultrasonic pulses are temporary or spatially interleaved with low...
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6824517 |
Ultrasound quantification in real-time using acoustic data in more than two dimensions
A system and method of ultrasound quantification acquires acoustic image data from anatomic locations distributed in more than 2 dimensions, and uses a segmentation algorithm to provide real-time...
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6817982 |
Method, apparatus, and product for accurately determining the intima-media thickness of a blood vessel
An apparatus, automated method technique and product for accurately determining the intima-media thickness of a blood vessel.
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