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6682487 |
Ultrasonic imaging aberration correction using harmonic and non-harmonic signals
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are provided in which aberration corrections are computed by comparing harmonic and non-harmonic images to derive aberration correction estimates....
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6682485 |
Noninvasive apparatus and method for the determination of cardiac valve function
A method and device for determining a plurality of cardiovascular parameters are described, wherein the parameters are determined from noninvasively obtained data, thereby obviating the need for...
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6682486 |
Ultrasonic diagnosing method and apparatus using correlative coefficient
An ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus capable of obtaining ultrasonic images in high precision even in such a case where waveforms of ultrasonic waves are deformed in transmission and reception...
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6679844 |
Automatic gain compensation for multiple mode or contrast agent imaging
The gain for multiple mode imaging and/or contrast agent imaging is automatically adjusted. The gain algorithm separately determines gain parameters for two different types of imaging, such as...
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6676602 |
Two dimensional array switching for beamforming in a volume
Methods and systems for electronically scanning within a three dimensional volume while minimizing the number of system channels and associated cables connecting a two-dimensional array of elements...
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6673019 |
Diagnostic ultrasound imaging based on rate subtraction imaging (RSI)
In a diagnostic ultrasound apparatus, an ultrasound pulse signal is transmitted two times in each of the rasters on a region to be scanned. Subtraction between echo signals received at each time of...
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6673020 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
To accurately measure wave intensity as an evaluation value using an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, a measurement line is set in a tomogram and anterior and posterior walls of a blood vessel are...
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6669639 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with articulating display
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system cart is provided with an articulation mechanism for the image display. The articulation mechanism is pivotally mounted to the cart and to the display and...
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6669640 |
Ultrasound imaging system using multi-stage pulse compression
Disclosed is an ultrasound imaging system based on a multi-stage pulse compression and multi-stage time delaying scheme. In the ultrasound imaging system, a transducer array is grouped into a...
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6669634 |
Ultrasonic imaging apparatus
In order to provide an ultrasonic imaging apparatus that responds to the requirement for both portability and versatility, the ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a portable imaging apparatus ...
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6668185 |
Endoscope apparatus for setting a scanning area
An endoscope apparatus that has an OCT function and can efficiently obtain an optical tomographic image is provided. An image of an area within a body cavity is displayed on a monitor, and an...
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6666825 |
Ultrasound transducer for improving resolution in imaging system
An ultrasound transducer employs a silicon acoustic matching layer closest to the piezoelectric layer in order to achieve improved resolution. A silicon wafer, ground to an appropriate thickness,...
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6666824 |
System and method of dynamic automatic sensing of available dynamic range
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system processes echo information signals by means of detecting, for different regions of the patient's anatomy, the actual noise present for that particular...
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6666823 |
Beam combination method and system
Methods are described for parallel beamforming with beam combination of formed beams from different transmit beams in an ultrasound imaging system. The methods provide advantages because the...
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6666822 |
Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus
Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus capable of displaying on a screen not only the shapes of internal organs but also the differences in properties thereof. The ultrasonic imaging method...
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6663565 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
A transmitting/receiving unit transmits an ultrasound wave to an object at a first rate in accordance with a first code, transmit an ultrasound wave to the object at a second rate in accordance...
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6659951 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis device
This invention provides a technology that freely changes the frequency of a reference signal in a digital ultrasonic diagnosis device and makes it possible to conduct various high-quality or...
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6659952 |
Ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus and method for virtually increasing power of pixels
In order to inhibit blooming and prevent degradation in the capability of projecting thin blood vessels, the luminance basically increases as power P becomes high. However, when there are two...
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6659953 |
Morphing diagnostic ultrasound images for perfusion assessment
An ultrasound image is morphed for perfusion assessment. Various images within a sequence of images or movie clip are mapped to one frame of reference using local warping. Nonlinear local image...
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6656121 |
Method of quantitatively measuring fat content in target organ from ultrasound visual image
A method of quantitatively assessing fat content in a target organ from an ultrasound visual image is provided. This method includes obtaining an ultrasound visual image of the target organ,...
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6652461 |
Ultrasound device for three-dimensional imaging of internal structure of a body part
Ultrasound-based imaging device and software operated method are presented for monitoring a body part generating data indicative of a three-dimensional image of an internal structure of the body...
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6652460 |
Method for ultrasonic imaging, particularly of moving bodies, such as surgical utensils, tissues, flows, or the like
A method for ultrasonic imaging, particularly of moving bodies, such as surgical utensils, tissues, flows, or the like, which includes the following steps:—Periodically emitting ultrasonic pulses...
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6652463 |
System and method for non-linear detection of ultrasonic contrast agents at a fundamental frequency
A system and method for fundamental real-time imaging of the non-linear response of tissue perfused with a contrast agent are disclosed. An image with increased sensitivity to non-linear responses...
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6648824 |
Ultrasound imaging system for performing receiving focusing at points corresponding to display pixels and method thereof
All RF data received by transducers in response to an ultrasonic signal that was transmit-focused on a point along a predetermined scan lines are stored to compute display data for those points of...
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6645146 |
Method and apparatus for harmonic imaging using multiple transmissions
A method and apparatus for improving the penetration of the harmonic imaging while preserving the image uniformity by using signals from a similar frequency band to form a composite image. A near...
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6641536 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging methods for extended field of view
A medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system aligns substantially co-planar two-dimensional images to form an extended field of view using improved compounding methods. Compounding with a finite...
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6643392 |
Process for reconstructing a tridimensional image of a moving object
A process for reconstructing a tridimensional image of an object moving with a substantially cyclic motion, for example the vessels of the human heart, in which, for an acquisition duration...
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6638230 |
Apparatus and method of frequency compounding to perform contrast imaging
An apparatus and method of imaging contrast agents within a patient's body. The apparatus includes an imaging system transmitting at multiple frequencies to elicit a response from the contrast...
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6638225 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus scans inside of a subject with an ultrasonic wave to obtain a cross-sectional image. A reference image in which a portion as a reference for holding an equal...
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6638224 |
Echo image forming apparatus and method
A probe 10 transmits an ultrasonic pulse of a wide band, and detects its echo to generate a reception signal. The reception signals are respectively filtered by three filter parts ( 14 a to 14...
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6638227 |
Ultrasound imaging method and apparatus using orthogonal Golay codes
The present invention discloses an ultrasound imaging method and apparatus using a plurality of orthogonal Golay codes so that multi-transmission and reception is available and frame rate is not...
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6633657 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a dynamic range of a digital diagnostic image
A method and system for controlling a dynamic range of a medical diagnostic image provided by a medical diagnostic system. A target dynamic range is identified independent of a dynamic range of an...
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6629929 |
Method and apparatus for automatically setting the transmit aperture and apodization of an ultrasound transducer array
A process for setting a focus in a ultrasonic imaging system includes receiving a point of interest and range of interest by a user input. A system controller of the system sets a focus zone on the...
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6626833 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis system
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus has an ultrasonic probe having a plurality of arrayed transducer elements, a transmitting beam former for generating driving signals for driving transducer...
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6626831 |
Gated ultrasound imaging apparatus and method
An ultrasound imaging system is programmed to acquire first ultrasonic image frames intermittently. These first frames, typically triggered frames synchronized with a selected portion of an ECG...
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6623431 |
Examination method of vascular endothelium function
A rapid vascular endothelium function examining method with improved reproducibility is provided. An apparatus for the method comprises systems for acquiring ultrasound images by an ultrasound...
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6620102 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in which the distortion of the received wave signal due to the ununiformity of the interior of an human body can be reduced accurately with a small circuit scale...
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6620101 |
Bone measurement device
The invention relates to a measurement device for use in treatment of a patient's bone, containing a specific location, which is of the kind reflecting ultrasonic radiation and which is to be...
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6615662 |
Three-dimensional ultrasonic scan probe
A plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements are arranged on the top surface of a probe, which is a concave spherical surface, so that ultrasonic beams transmitted from the ultrasonic transducer...
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6616610 |
Method for determination of the direction of introduction and for controlling the introduction path of biopsy needles
With a method for determination of the direction of introduction ( 4 ) and for controlling the introduction path of biopsy needles, probes and similar in organisms ( 2 ) by using an ultrasound...
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6618493 |
Method and apparatus for visualization of motion in ultrasound flow imaging using packet data acquisition
A method and an apparatus for imaging blood motion by displaying an enhanced image of the fluctuating speckle pattern. The first step in the blood motion image processing is high-pass filtering of...
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6613005 |
Systems and methods for steering a focused ultrasound array
A focused ultrasound system includes a transducer array including a plurality of sub-arrays, each sub-array defining an acoustic emission surface and including a plurality of transducer elements...
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6612988 |
Ultrasound therapy
The invention provides a method of delivering ultrasound signals. The method includes providing an image of at least a portion of a subject intended to receive ultrasound signals between sources of...
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6607489 |
Focus correction for ultrasound imaging through mammography compression plate
A coherent imaging system includes a transmitter and a receive beamformer which are programmed with transmit and receive time delays, respectively, that take into account time-of-flight errors...
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6607488 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method for scanning plane orientation
A method and system for indicating the position and orientation of a scan plane relative to a patient is provided. The image as presented on a display is oriented in accordance with the orientation...
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6605041 |
3-D ultrasound recording device
The present invention is related to a device for recording three-dimensional ultrasound images. The device includes an ultrasound head which can be freely moved by hand, an ultrasound recording...
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6602194 |
Dual beamformer ultrasound system for 2D and 3D imaging
An ultrasound system which performs two dimensional imaging is upgradeable to a system which also performs three dimensional ultrasonic imaging. The ultrasound system contains space in which an...
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6599247 |
System and method for location-merging of real-time tomographic slice images with human vision
A device for combining tomographic images with human vision using a half-silvered mirror to merge the visual outer surface of an object (or a robotic mock effector) with a simultaneous reflection...
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6597934 |
Diagnostic image capture
A novel medical diagnostic imaging system, method, and apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, a reference image is compared with each image in an image stream, and a similarity value is...
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6592522 |
Ultrasound display of displacement
An ultrasound machine that generates a color representation of moving structure, such as cardiac wall tissue within a region of interest, and is displayed on a monitor. The color representation is...
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