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7389692 |
Digital log amplifier for ultrasonic testing
The apparatus and method of the present invention provides a plurality of linear amplifiers simultaneously processing an ultrasonic signal. Each amplifier of the plurality of linear amplifiers has...
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7381186 |
Method and apparatus to assess compartment syndrome
A method and apparatus for measuring pressure buildup in a body compartment that encases muscular tissue. The method includes assessing the body compartment configuration and identifying the effect...
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7374538 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for ultrasound measurements using receive mode parallel processing
A pushing pulse is delivered from an ultrasound transducer array having a plurality of elements to a target region within a medium to displace the target region to a displaced position. A tracking...
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7367946 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus with automatic marking
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an image producing section which produces images of time-serial frames of an inspection subject based on echoes of ultrasonic waves emitted to the...
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7367945 |
Ultrasound system
An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound probe configured for sensing and transmitting ultrasound signals. The ultrasound system further includes an optical conduit configured for coupling a...
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7361144 |
Ultrasound imaging system with a high lateral resolution
The invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system for forming an echographic image of a medium, which system includes a set [REC] of transducer elements [EL] which are operative in a...
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7354402 |
Intraoral data input tool
An intraoral data input tool for use during dental examination of a patient comprises a discoid head attached to a handle. The discoid head includes a data input device which is responsive to force...
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7354401 |
Ultrasound sex determination for sorting of avian hatchlings
A method for making a sex determination in avian hatchlings involves the following activities. A process line is equipped to process an endless plurality of hatchlings. The process line has an...
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7347821 |
Adaptive processing of contrast enhanced ultrasonic diagnostic images
A method is described for automatically and accurately defining tissue borders within ultrasound imaging. A preferred embodiment described provides for accurately delineating endocardial and...
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7346228 |
Simultaneous generation of spatially compounded and non-compounded images
One or more embodiments of the present invention relates to a method and system for simultaneously generating spatially compounded and non-compounded images. In one embodiment, the present...
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7343190 |
System and method for assessing fetal abnormality based on landmarks
A method and system for assessing fetal abnormality based on landmarks. According to one embodiment, at least two coordinates are received for each of a plurality of points identifying a...
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7338450 |
Method and apparatus for performing CW doppler ultrasound utilizing a 2D matrix array
An ultrasound system is provided comprising an ultrasound probe having a 2D matrix of transducer elements transmitting a continuous wave (CW) Doppler transmit signal into an object of interest. The...
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7338448 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound compound imaging with combined fundamental and harmonic signals
Certain embodiments include a system and method for improved compound imaging using a plurality of imaging modes. In an embodiment, a plurality of echo signals are received in response to a...
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7335160 |
Ultrasonic transmitting and receiving apparatus
An ultrasonic transmitting and receiving apparatus for performing the multibeam transmission capable of suppressing the increase in withstand voltage of the ultrasonic transducers and power...
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7331926 |
Ultrasonic elastography providing axial, orthogonal, and shear strain
Ultrasonic signals obtained at a range of angles are fit to a material independent model to derive both axial and lateral strain and thus parameters dependent on lateral strain including Poisson's...
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7329225 |
Methods, devices, systems and computer program products for oscillating shafts using real time 3D ultrasound
An oscillating shaft is scanned to provide images including the oscillating shaft in vivo in real-time with a real-time three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound scanner. An interventional device can be...
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7318804 |
Methods and systems for measuring mechanical property of a vascular wall and method and system for determining health of a vascular structure
Methods and systems for measuring mechanical property of a vascular wall and a method and system for determining health of a vascular structure are provided wherein local deformation of a vessel...
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7314446 |
Method and apparatus for time gating of medical images
A medical imaging system is provided which includes a signal generator configured to obtain a trigger signal corresponding to a timing of interest, imaging equipment configured to obtain a...
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7306561 |
Systems and methods for automatic time-gain compensation in an ultrasound imaging system
The systems and methods described herein provide for automatic time-gain compensation of an ultrasound image with an image processing algorithm. A method of automatic time-gain compensation is...
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7303529 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment and ultrasonic image generation method
The difference frequency component between a first fundamental wave of frequency f and a second fundamental wave of frequency f 2 is caused to interact with a second harmonic wave, thereby to...
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7298883 |
Automated method and system for advanced non-parametric classification of medical images and lesions
A computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme to aid in the detection, characterization, diagnosis, and/or assessment of normal and diseased states (including lesions and/or images). The scheme employs...
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7297117 |
Method for optimization of transmit and receive ultrasound pulses, particularly for ultrasonic imaging
A method for optimizing transmit and receive ultrasound imaging pulses generates transmit pulses from an array of transducers which are energized by excitation signals that are applied to each...
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7297116 |
Method and apparatus for imaging the cervix and uterine wall
Elastography is used to examine soft tissue of the uterus to detect tumors and to evaluate the strength of the cervix of the uterus based on its elastographic properties.
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7291108 |
Ultrasonic transmission/reception apparatus for generating an image based on ultrasonic echoes and vibro-acoustic sounds
An ultrasonic transmission/reception apparatus which can image both a minute tissue around a bone part in an object and a minute tissue inside the bone, at a high resolution. The apparatus includes...
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7289938 |
Method and a device for detecting discontinuities in a medium
A method and a device for detecting discontinuities in a medium by detecting maxima, e.g. in an echo signal of an ultrasound excitation of the media, with maxima corresponding to a given...
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7285093 |
systems for ultrasonic imaging of a jaw, methods of use thereof and coupling cushions suited for use in the mouth
Systems and methods for ultrasonic imaging of a jaw and coupling cushions suited for use in the mouth. The system includes a specially configured ultrasonic probe, a position locator module for...
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7285092 |
Computerized ultrasound risk evaluation system
A method and system for examining tissue are provided in which the tissue is maintained in a position so that it may be insonified with a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic...
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7280694 |
Apparatus and method for identifying an organ from an input ultrasound image signal
This invention discloses an apparatus and method for identifying an organ within a human body by calculating the distances of an input ultrasound image signal and the ultrasound image signals...
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7273455 |
Corrections for wavefront aberrations in ultrasound imaging
An estimation method for correction filters for wavefront aberration correction in ultrasound imaging is given. The aberration is introduced due to spatial variations of the ultrasound propagation...
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7261695 |
Trigger extraction from ultrasound doppler signals
A trigger extraction system for obtaining an event trigger for an event occurring in a region of interest includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a trigger extraction program...
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7261694 |
Method and apparatus for providing real-time calculation and display of tissue deformation in ultrasound imaging
An ultrasound system and method for calculation and display of tissue deformation parameters are disclosed. The tissue deformation parameter strain is determined by an accumulation of strain rate...
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7258674 |
Ultrasonic treatment and imaging of adipose tissue
A system for the destruction of adipose tissue utilizing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) within a patient's body. The system comprises a controller for data storage and the operation and...
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7252638 |
Method and system for simultaneously displaying relationships of measurements of features associated with a medical image
The embodiments described herein relate to a method and system for simultaneously displaying relationships of measurements of features associated with a medical image. In one embodiment, a...
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7252004 |
Imaging method and device employing sherar waves
An imaging method for observing the propagation of a shear wave simultaneously at a multitude of points in a diffusing viscoelastic medium. The shear wave is caused to be generated by firing at...
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7244233 |
System and method for utilizing shape analysis to assess fetal abnormality
A method and system for utilizing shape analysis to assess fetal abnormality. According to one embodiment, coordinates of points identifying a shape in a fetal image are received, coefficients of...
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7244230 |
Computer aided diagnostic assistance for medical imaging
Various attributes for medical CAD analysis used alone or in combination are disclosed, including: (1) using medical sensor data and context information associated with the configuration of the...
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7242793 |
Physically-based, probabilistic model for ultrasonic images incorporating shape, microstructure and system characteristics
The present invention is a method and apparatus that creates a physical model of image formation and performs a random phasor sum representation of the physical model to create the probabilistic...
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7239907 |
Diagnostic apparatus, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and operation controlling method thereof
By using the input unit, a condition previously regarded necessary, for example, some parameter values of a plurality of frequencies are registered as a group. The registered parameter values are...
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7238157 |
Broad-beam imaging methods
Methods of probing a material under investigation using an ultrasound beam. Echolocation data is generated using a multi-dimensional transform capable of using phase and magnitude information to...
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7229423 |
Systems and methods for applying audible acoustic energy to increase tissue perfusion and/or vasodilation
Systems and methods apply audible acoustic energy to cause vasodilation and/or to increase tissue perfusion.
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7227813 |
Method and apparatus for forming multiple beams
An apparatus and associated method are disclosed which form a multiple beam forming network using time division multiplexing. Instead of having several parallel sets of beam forming network...
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7226416 |
System and method for phase inversion ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonic imaging utilizing multiple sets of transmit pulses differing in amplitude, frequency, phase, and/or pulse width is disclosed. One embodiment has phase differences between the k transmit...
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7223242 |
Ultrasound imaging system
The present invention is directed to an ultrasound imaging system and method for Doppler processing of data. The ultrasonic imaging system efficiently addresses the data computational and...
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7223241 |
Method and apparatus for elasticity imaging
A computational efficient algorithm for compression analysis of free-hand static elasticity imaging performed using medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging equipment offers tissue compression quality...
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7223240 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
In an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of forming a three-dimensional ultrasonic image, an entire cavity portion of an organ can be displayed without any part being invisible....
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7211046 |
Systems and methods for creating reformatted computed tomography images
Systems and methods for creating a reformatted medical diagnostic image of a physical structure of the body including obtaining a plurality of axial images of the physical structure of the body and...
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7207942 |
Adaptive grating lobe suppression in ultrasound imaging
Adaptive grating lobe suppression is provided. Received ultrasound data is measured, compared or otherwise processed to determine the presence of grating lobe energy. A further process is then...
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7204807 |
Joint analysis using ultrasound
A method is provided for generating at least one quantitative measure of a joint comprising sending an acoustic signal to at least a part of a joint, receiving said acoustic signal after...
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7175599 |
Shear mode diagnostic ultrasound
A method of diagnosing a subject by delivering ultrasound signals using shear waves includes applying a portion of an ultrasound mainbeam to a bone surface at an incident angle relative to the...
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7175598 |
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus that adjusts a time phase between a plurality of image series
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprises an insonifier, a receiver, and a processor. The insonifier is configured to insonify an ultrasound to a specimen. The receiver is configured to receive...
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