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6454712 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic image measuring apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention comprises an ultrasonic probe, a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave to and from a...
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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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6447453 |
Analysis of cardiac performance using ultrasonic diagnostic images
Ultrasonic cardiac image information is acquired and segmented by automatic border detection. The segmented ultrasonic information is used to display regional wall motion over time. The segmented...
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6447450 |
ECG gated ultrasonic image compounding
An ECG gated ultrasonic imaging compounding system and method for synthesizing a cineloop of a compound ultrasonic image such as a cardiac cycle is presented. In real-time operation, a series of...
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6447452 |
System and method for reduction of parallel beamforming artifacts
A system and method for reducing parallel beamforming artifacts. An interpolation of amplitude data is performed to correct for the blocky appearance of images formed with parallel receive beams....
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6443897 |
Refraction delay error correction using agile beamformer
A method and an apparatus for correcting refraction delay errors on curved probes for all ranges using cordic rotation. The angle φ from the normal of an element to the focus is determined as a...
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6443896 |
Method for creating multiplanar ultrasonic images of a three dimensional object
A method for creating multiple planar images of a volumetric region of an object without acquiring data from the entire volumetric region. The method includes sweeping a transducer across the...
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6440075 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging of nonlinearly intermodulated and harmonic frequency components
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described for performing nonlinear echo signal imaging with harmonic and intermodulation product (sum or difference frequency) components....
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6436044 |
System and method for adaptive beamformer apodization
An ultrasound array imaging system ( 50 ) and method for improving beamforming quality and ultimately for improving an ultrasound image are disclosed. The ultrasound array imaging system ( 50 )...
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6436039 |
Medicial diagnostic ultrasound system and method
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system and method in which at least two image components of an image are separately stored in the...
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6438258 |
Ultrasound image processing employing non-linear tissue response backscatter signals
A method for processing ultrasound signal samples obtains enhanced images of a body structure through use of both harmonic and fundamental image processing. The method includes the steps of first...
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6432053 |
Process for non-invasively determining the dimensions of a lesion
There is disclosed a method for non-invasively determining dimensions of a lesion within soft tissue, comprising: (a) ultrasonically imaging soft tissue in an apparatus having an acoustic...
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6432056 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with high frame rate synthetic transmit focus
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided which produces scanlines with synthesized transmit foci at a high frame rate of display. Beams are transmitted and received which have different...
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6434260 |
Facial imaging in utero
This invention discloses a system for providing an image of at least a portion of a fetus in utero including an imager providing image data for a volume including at least a portion of a fetus in...
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6432054 |
Medical ultrasonic imaging with adaptive synthesis and compounding
A medical diagnostic imaging system generates a compounded beam signal C by combining first and second beam signals B 1 , B 2 subsequent to detection and a synthesized beam signal S by combining...
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6423003 |
Ultrasonic imaging system and method with SNR adaptive processing
An ultrasonic imaging system includes a processor that varies the receive signal path parameters as a function of the signal to noise ratio of the echo signal. Background noise information is...
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6423004 |
Real-time ultrasound spatial compounding using multiple angles of view
A method and an apparatus for spatially compounding ultrasound frames by using multiple angle views. Successive image frames of pixel data are processed using a Sum of Absolute Difference...
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6419632 |
High resolution flow imaging for ultrasound diagnosis
In a high-resolution flow mode, a diagnostic ultrasound apparatus and a diagnostic ultrasound method that provide an image of blood flow or perfusion is provided with higher sensitivity and high...
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6416476 |
Three-dimensional ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
A three-dimensional ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus transmits ultrasonic beams to an object; receives ultrasonic echo signals; stores and generates three-dimensional region volume data in an object...
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6413218 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system and method for determining an acoustic output parameter of a transmitted ultrasonic beam
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system and method for determining an acoustic output parameter of a transmitted ultrasonic beam. In one...
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6413219 |
Three-dimensional ultrasound data display using multiple cut planes
A three-dimensional projection image representing a projection of a data volume at a predetermined orientation, three cut plane images representing respective mutually orthogonal planar cuts...
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6409668 |
Device and method for examining female breasts using ultrasound
The invention relates to a device and method for examining female mammals using at least one displaceable ultrasonic transducer which is disposed for scanning level layer areas and with which...
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6409667 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasound transducer system and method for harmonic imaging
A transducer system and method for harmonic imaging is provided. At least one transducer element is provided. The transducer element comprises two stacked piezoelectric layers. Information from...
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6406431 |
System for imaging the bladder during voiding
The system includes an ultrasound apparatus which provides successive images of a bladder during the voiding process, the images being approximately one second long so as to provide an accurate...
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6402693 |
Ultrasonic transducer aligning system to replicate a previously obtained image
To aid a physician or sonographer in replicating an image of tissue sample, an ultrasound machine performs a comparison of ultrasound images with a stored reference image. The results of the...
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6390980 |
Spatial compounding with ultrasonic doppler signal information
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system and method are described which perform spatial compounding of tissue motion or flow information. The resultant images not only reduce speckle artifacts, but...
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6390982 |
Ultrasonic guidance of target structures for medical procedures
A system comprising a combination of an ultrasound probe and both passive and active infrared tracking systems. The combined system enables a real time image display of the entire region of...
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6390981 |
Ultrasonic spatial compounding with curved array scanheads
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is used to produce spatially compounded ultrasonic images with beams transmitted in multiple look directions from a curved array scanhead. The beam steering...
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6390978 |
Imaging method for determining a physical or chemical condition of tissue in human or animal bodies, and system for carrying out the method
In an imaging method and a system for determining a physical or chemical condition of tissue in a human or animal body using ultrasound at least one ultrasonic pulse in the diagnostic frequency and...
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6375617 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with dynamic microbeamforming
An ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus are described for imaging the coronary arteries of the heart. The vascular system is infused with an ultrasonic contrast agent. A volumetric region of the...
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6375616 |
Automatic fetal weight determination
This invention discloses an apparatus for fetal weight determination including an ultrasonic imager operative to image a fetus in utero and to provide output image data in respect thereof, an image...
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6374674 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus wherein a three dimensional space is scanned by ultrasonic beams and echo signals are received simultaneously in parallel to produce ultrasonic information....
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6371914 |
Single-shot phase cancellation ultrasound contrast imaging
The method of imaging the nonlinear components of ultrasound echo signals returned from scatterers comprises the steps of constructing a double-pulse excitation waveform, the two pulses composing...
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6368279 |
Time-delay compensation system and method for adaptive ultrasound imaging
An ultrasound imaging system directs a transmit beam of ultrasound from a plurality of elements in a transducer array into a region of interest (ROI) of a patient's body. The receive beam back from...
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6364836 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a probe which outputs RF signals. There are N phase detectors for converting the RF signals outputted from the probe into baseband signals In and Qn,...
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6366864 |
Adaptive sampling rate based on power system frequency
A method and system for synchronizing the sampling frequency, at which power system data is sampled, with the frequency of the power system. Adjustments to the sampling frequency can be made by...
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6361496 |
Pressure tourniquet with ultrasound window and method of use
A pressure tourniquet having a window transparent to ultrasound is wrapped around a leg or another anatomical structure containing veins. An ultrasound transducer is placed in contact with the...
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6358209 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasonic imaging system and method
An ultrasonic imaging system and method provide whitening using a two dimensional pre-detection filter followed by low pass filtering using a two dimensional post-detection filter to reduce speckle...
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6360027 |
Multiple ultrasound image registration system, method and transducer
An ultrasonic imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer having an image data array and a tracking array at each end of the image data array. The tracking arrays are oriented transversely to...
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6358210 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasonic imaging transmit/receive method and apparatus
An ultrasonic imaging system and method form first and second transmit beams characterized by a complex phase separation angle (e.g. 90°) that differs from an integer multiple of 180° along the...
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6352508 |
Transducer motion compensation in medical diagnostic ultrasound extended field of view imaging
An extended field of view medical diagnostic ultrasound image is corrected for distortion associated with azimuthal motion of the transducer. The actual azimuthal motion is determined from the...
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6352509 |
Three-dimensional ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
A three-dimensional ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus has a feature that: transmits ultrasonic beams three-dimensionally to a diagnostic site including a left ventricle of the heart in a subject being...
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6352510 |
Ultrasound transducers for real time two and three dimensional image acquisition
A present invention shows some schemes of a cross transducer with one transmit and one receive array for the three dimensional image acquisition. Designs of the cross transducer with and without a...
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6351660 |
Enhanced visualization of in-vivo breast biopsy location for medical documentation
An image processing system and method visually documents and displays the in-vivo location from which a biopsy specimen was extracted, by processing pre-biopsy and post-biopsy images. A composite...
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6350238 |
Real-time display of ultrasound in slow motion
A system and method for acquiring ultrasound information at an acquisition rate and displaying at least a portion of the acquired ultrasound information at a display rate that is slower than the...
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6346079 |
Method and apparatus for adaptive frame-rate adjustment in ultrasound imaging system
A method and an apparatus for dynamically optimizing the frame rate as a function of an estimate of the target motion. First, the target motion is estimated, and then this estimate is used to...
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6344023 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system
A nonlinear distortion-based ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system displays a raised-resolution video of tissue inside a body at an increased frame rate. Using a two-pulse technique, a transducer...
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6341174 |
Selective rendering method and system for rapid 3 dimensional imaging
A method and system for selectively rendering a two dimensional view of a three dimensional image, in order to facilitate rapid three dimensional imaging in a realtime or static context....
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6336899 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus which includes a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged two-dimensionally. In the ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus, the ultrasonic beams are transmitted by the...
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6335980 |
Method and system for the segmentation of lung regions in lateral chest radiographs
A method and system for the automated segmentation of the lung regions in lateral chest radiographs. This is achieved according to the invention by providing an improved computerized, automated...
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