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7615009 |
System and method for optical data transmission in ultrasound imaging
A system and method for optical transmission of ultrasound data signals from a probe to an image processing system is provided. By using a silicon-based optical modulator to encode ultrasound data...
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7615008 |
Processing and displaying breast ultrasound information
Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only...
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7612773 |
Apparatus and method for rendering for display forward-looking image data
An apparatus and method for rendering for display forward-looking image data. The apparatus includes rendering for display image data from a forward-looking conical section of tissue collected by...
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7611466 |
Ultrasound system and method for measuring bladder wall thickness and mass
An ultrasound transceiver scans an organ and processes the echogenic signals to produce three-dimensional, two-dimensional, and one-dimensional information of the organ. The 3-D, 2-D, and 1-D...
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7610078 |
System and method of graphically generating anatomical structures using ultrasound echo information
Methods and systems for graphically creating a representation of an anatomical structure, such as a heart, is provided. The distal end of an elongated probe is moved within the anatomical...
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7608044 |
Ultrasonic image display method and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
An ultrasonic image display method for displaying a composite image made from a B mode image and a tissue velocity image of an object taken by means of ultrasound. The method includes decreasing...
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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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7604598 |
Apparatus, system and method for evaluation of esophageal function
A method, system and apparatus for ultrasonically imaging boli that are swallowed, as they are passed through the esophagus. The trajectories of the boli are tracked, and image data corresponding...
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7604597 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
A specific cavity extractor extracts an isolated group corresponding to a left ventricle from among a plurality of isolated groups to which numbers are attached in a labeling section. A major axis...
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7604596 |
Ultrasonic signal processor for a hand held ultrasonic diagnostic instrument
A hand held ultrasonic instrument is provided in a portable unit which performs both B mode and Doppler imaging. The instrument includes a transducer array mounted in a hand-held enclosure, with an...
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7604594 |
Method and system of controlling ultrasound systems
A method and system for controlling an ultrasound system are provided. The method includes processing image data received from an ultrasound system to obtain a time gain compensation correction...
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7601122 |
Ultrasonic elastography with angular compounding
Ultrasonic strain measurements, which characterize the structure of tissue, may be obtained by combining multiple echo signals acquired at different compressions and at different angles. Such...
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7601121 |
Volume rendering quality adaptations for ultrasound imaging
Rendering quality parameter values are automatically set or adjusted as a function of acquisition ultrasound parameter values. The rendering quality is automatically selected based on the...
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7597663 |
Adjunctive ultrasound processing and display for breast cancer screening
An adjunctive ultrasound mammography system and associated methods are described comprising an adjunctive ultrasound display configured for quick, intuitive, interactive viewing of data derived...
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7591788 |
Adaptive contrast agent medical imaging
System parameters for contrast agent medical imaging are conveniently set. A simplified contrast agent configuration is provided. One contrast agent imaging mode or configuration is dynamically...
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7586501 |
Simultaneous projection of multi-branched vessels and their context on a single image
System and methods of displaying one or more vessels, particularly blood vessels and more particularly coronary arteries, are disclosed. Each of the one or more vessels is associated with an...
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7583828 |
Accumulation imaging
A system for displaying accumulated ultrasound images of tissue structures. A set of N image frames is used to produce a peak image display. Multiple peak image displays are produced by discarding...
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7578790 |
Systems and methods for detecting and presenting textural information from medical images
The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting and presenting textural information from medical images. In one embodiment, a medical imaging system includes an imaging transducer...
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7575551 |
Biological signal monitor device
There is provided an excellent biological signal monitor device that allows a living tissue moving in accordance with a body motion or a vibration to be observed as if it were standing still. A...
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7575550 |
Position sensing based on ultrasound emission
An Apparatus for determining the disposition of an object relative to a reference frame includes at least one field generator, which generates an electromagnetic field in a vicinity of the object...
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7563230 |
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a transceiver, a processor, a memory, and a display unit. The transceiver is configured to transmit an ultrasound signal to a part of a specimen and...
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7563229 |
Method and apparatus for automatically measuring delay of tissue motion and deformation
System and method for automatically measuring the delay of tissue motion and deformation. For example, asynchrony may be measured between the left and right ventricles and within the left...
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7563228 |
Stereoscopic three or four dimensional ultrasound imaging
Medical diagnostic ultrasound stereo imaging is provided. A medical diagnostic ultrasound system operable to scan a body with ultrasound is also operable to generate a three dimensional...
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7559896 |
Physiological definition user interface
A medical imaging system includes image acquisition circuitry, a display, and a processor coupled to the image acquisition circuitry and the display. In addition, a memory is coupled to the...
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7559895 |
Combining tomographic images in situ with direct vision using a holographic optical element
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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7553283 |
Device and method for measuring elasticity of a human or animal organ and for two-or three-dimensional representation thereof
A device for measuring elasticity of a human or animal organ, or viscoelastic environments presenting an ultrasonic signal after ultrasonic illumination and consecutively establishing a...
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7549963 |
Multi stage beamforming
Beamforming for N elements in performed in log(N) steps of complexity O(N). The signals measured at each element are treated as a receive beam formed by that element with a beam width equal to the...
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7549962 |
Diagnostic medical ultrasound systems and transducers utilizing micro-mechanical components
The use of any micro-mechanical component in an ultrasound system is disclosed. In particular, the use of micro-relays, micro-switches and inductors in the transducer probe head, in the transducer...
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7549960 |
Implantable and insertable passive tags
Apparatus for determining the position of an object within a body of a subject includes at least one acoustic wave generator, adapted to direct a first acoustic wave toward the body at a first...
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7547282 |
Ultrasonic monitor for measuring heart and pulse rates
The invention provides an ultrasonic monitor for measuring pulse rate values in a living subject, including a module with at least one source of ultrasonic energy, a gel pad comprised of a polymer...
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7542790 |
Apparatus and method for velocity estimation in synthetic aperture imaging
The invention relates to an apparatus for flow estimation using synthetic aperture imaging. The method uses a Synthetic Transmit Aperture, but unlike previous approaches a new frame is created...
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7540842 |
Diagnostic ultrasound imaging method and system with improved frame rate
A medical diagnostic ultrasonic imaging system acquires receive beams from spatially distinct transmit beams. The receive beams alternate in type between at least first and second types across the...
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7530951 |
Method for generating a three-dimensional ultrasound image
In a method to generate a three-dimensional ultrasound image of a body region of a patient, spatially varying due to breathing motions, temporally successive B-images are generated with an...
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7520855 |
Biological tissue elasticity measurement method and ultrasonographic device
An ultrasonographic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe 1 for transmitting/receiving an ultrasonic wave to/from a patient, means 2 for generating an ultrasonic transmission signal and...
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7519212 |
Three-dimensional reconstructions of a breast from two X-ray mammographics
Methods are described for the production of a three-dimensional reconstruction of a undeformed object from two different views of the object under deformation using a volume constraint and also by...
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7513870 |
Finite amplitude distortion-based inhomogeneous pulse echo ultrasonic imaging
A method and system for imaging a sample. The method includes the steps of generating an ultrasonic signal, directing the signal into a sample, which signal is distorted and contains a first order...
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7510529 |
Ultrasound reconstruction unit
An ultrasound reconstruction unit is provided. In one embodiment, a receive aperture control engine for the unit adaptively determines a set of reconstruction signals based on at least a series of...
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7509861 |
Method and device for local spectral analysis of an ultrasonic signal
The method decomposes the radio frequency signal into sub-bands by filtering, for example with a time-frequency transform. From the coefficients acquired through decomposition a matrix of spectral...
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7507204 |
Apparatus and method for forming 3D ultrasound image
The present invention relates to a 3D ultrasound diagnostic forming a 3D ultrasound image only with volume data exiting within contour by automatically detecting the contour of a target object,...
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7506546 |
Digital log amplifier for ultrasonic testing
The invention provides an ultrasonic object inspection system for measuring the physical properties of a test object which includes a pulse generator for sending an electrical pulse signal to a...
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7500952 |
Portable ultrasound imaging system
A portable ultrasound imaging system includes a scan head coupled by a cable to a portable battery-powered data processor and display unit. The scan head enclosure houses an array of ultrasonic...
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7497830 |
Three dimensional ultrasonic imaging using mechanical probes with beam scanning reversal
An ultrasonic probe for three dimensional scanning includes a one-dimensional array transducer which is mechanically swept back and forth. As the array transducer is swept in one direction the...
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7497828 |
Ultrasonic medical device and associated method
A medical system includes a carrier and a multiplicity of electromechanical transducers mounted to the carrier, the transducers being disposable in effective pressure-wave-transmitting contact with...
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7492967 |
Super-resolution processor and medical diagnostic imaging apparatus
A super-resolution processor includes a storage section for storing data of point spread functions of an X-ray CT scanner which are acquired using a phantom and a super-resolution processing...
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7488287 |
Ultrasonic diagnosing system
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has an ultrasonic endoscope, an ultrasonic observing portion, a position detecting unit, a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse. Cross-sectional planes in parallel...
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7481769 |
Ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus capable of improving an SN ratio and emphatically displaying characteristic tissues by acquiring information unique to tissues such as organs, bones, etc. in a...
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7481768 |
Ultrasonograph
A probe 10 receives an echo signal, and the echo signal is stored in memory 18 . Operation desk 28 a has at least one readout-range setting device 34 for setting an echo signal...
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7479110 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment
An ultrasonic diagnostic equipment capable of reducing cost by reducing the number of transmission drive circuits for generating transmission pulse is disclosed. High voltage switches for...
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7473226 |
Ultrasonographic device and ultrasonographic method
In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an...
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7472597 |
Ultrasonic imaging device and the information processing method thereof
An ultrasonic imaging device, comprising: a receiver, for receiving ultrasonic signals which carry information about human body; a processor, for analyzing and processing the received ultrasonic...
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