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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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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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7457654 |
Artifact reduction for volume acquisition
Motion artifacts are reduced for three- or four-dimensional imaging with a mechanically rocked array by determining a position of a scan within a volume as a function of velocity. A represented...
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7393325 |
Method and system for ultrasound treatment with a multi-directional transducer
A method and system for ultrasound treatment utilizing a multi-directional transducer to facilitate treatment, such as therapy and/or imaging or other tissue parameter monitoring, in two or more...
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7264592 |
Scanning devices for three-dimensional ultrasound mammography
A breast tomography scanner including a stationary chamber configured to hold fluid, a movable chamber within the stationary chamber configured to hold fluid, and breast scanning apparatus. Various...
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7162292 |
Beam scanning probe system for surgery
With the beam scanning probe system for surgery, a pointer indicating the observation point of a beam scanning probe is superimposed upon an image of a lesion to be operated on in the head which is...
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7141020 |
Portable 3D ultrasound system
A portable 3D ultrasound device having an ultrasound transducer. The ultrasound transducer includes a transducer array with a plurality of transducer elements arranged in a plurality of dimensions,...
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7128711 |
Positioning systems and methods for guided ultrasound therapy systems
Systems and methods are provided for positioning a therapy device, such as an ultrasound transducer, using a tilt sensor carried by the transducer and a positioner coupled to the transducer. The...
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7041058 |
Medical diagnostic imaging system and method for efficient access of data
The preferred embodiments described herein provide a medical diagnostic imaging system and method for efficient access of data. In one preferred embodiment, a medical diagnostic imaging system is...
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6780153 |
Mechanism and system for 3-dimensional scanning of an ultrasound beam
An ultrasound probe capable of scanning an ultrasound beam in a region of 3D space, characterized by that an ultrasound transducer array is mounted to a 1 st shaft that can rotate in bearings...
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6719694 |
Ultrasound transducers for imaging and therapy
Ultrasound applicators able to both image a treatment site and administer ultrasound therapy include an array of transducer elements that can be focused. In several embodiments, an electronically...
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6698291 |
Ultrasonic inspection apparatus
An ultrasonic inspection apparatus obtains information on the interface of a sample as digital waveform data for any “unit measurement range” and is provided with at least two data memories and...
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6685643 |
Method and device for recording ultrasonic images
The invention relates to a method or a device for recording ultrasonic images of an object ( 1 ) in which ultrasonic waves are radiated onto the object ( 1 ) by an ultrasonic emitter, and...
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6679845 |
High frequency synthetic ultrasound array incorporating an actuator
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging with improved spatial sampling. The device includes a plurality of ultrasound imaging elements each having a pitch...
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6626834 |
Spiral scanner with electronic control
A scanning device, typically ultrasonic, can make a volumetric scan of a conical scanning field. A transducer having a permanent magnet at its back end is gimbal mounted in a housing. Behind the...
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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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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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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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6551245 |
Ultrasonic probe
An ultrasonic probe is provided which may be employed in medical applications to radiate an ultrasonic wave for inspecting the interior of a patient's body noninvasively. The ultrasonic probe...
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6547733 |
Ultrasound imaging apparatus and method using Golay codes with orthogonal property
Ultrasound images are obtained using a set of Golay codes with orthogonal property as ultrasound receiving and transmitting signals. Ultrasound signals having a plurality of codes are transmitted...
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6544186 |
System and method for diagnostic imaging
An imaging system and method provides for the automatic leveling of a hologram detector system. A detector system must be precisely oriented in a proper predetermined orientation. The present...
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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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6236876 |
Navigable probe and motor control apparatus
A motor control apparatus (1) for articulating a probe (3) is constructed with a reversible motor (10) and at least one tension adjusting cable (4) to articulate the probe (3).
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6048312 |
Method and apparatus for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging of biopsy needle
A method and an apparatus for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging of a needle-like instrument, such as a biopsy needle, inserted in a human body. The instrument is visualized by transmitting...
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6047601 |
Self-tuning crystal notch filter
A self-tuning crystal notch filter suitable for rejecting a carrier signal in a receiver channel of a receiver of an ultrasound imaging system. The crystal notch filter has a resonant frequency...
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5935070 |
Method and apparatus for delaying ultrasound signals
An ultrasound beamformer that processes the signals of an array transducer includes a plurality of processing channels, one for each element of the active transducer array. Each channel includes a...
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5897501 |
Imaging system with multiplexer for controlling a multi-row ultrasonic transducer array
In an ultrasound imaging system, a multiplexer connects a beamformer to a multi-row transducer array, where the array has more electrically independent transducer elements than the beamformer has...
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5844139 |
Method and apparatus for providing dynamically variable time delays for ultrasound beamformer
A phased array sector scanning ultrasonic system includes a separate receive channel for each respective element in an ultrasonic transducer array. Each receive channel imparts a delay to the echo...
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5840034 |
Ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus either for displaying three-dimensional ultrasonic images allowing an operator to become aware of the distance of a target object from an ultrasonic probe, or for...
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5831168 |
Ultrasound signal processor
In an ultrasound signal processor, respective received signals received at received signal processing units are sampled by a sampling clock of a frequency which is sufficiently higher than a...
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5801312 |
Method and system for laser ultrasonic imaging of an object
The present invention discloses a method and system for laser ultrasonic imaging an object. In the present invention, a synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) is used to generate a high...
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5697372 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound scanning
A method and apparatus for compensating for the effects of variable attenuation in a body being scanned by an ultrasound pulse echo scanner in which a compensation signal is derived on the basis...
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5669386 |
Ultrasonic flow measurement system employing cross-correlation of baseband reflection data
An ultrasound flow measurement system converts each of plural groups of reflection sample values from scatterers, into baseband complex data values and enables a velocity determination from just...
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5655535 |
3-Dimensional compound ultrasound field of view
A compounded field of view ultrasound image is derived from correlated frames of ultrasound image data. An operator manually translates an ultrasound probe across a patient target area. Frames of...
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5630416 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic probe
An ultrasonic diagnostic probe includes: a swinging mechanism for swinging a piezoelectric vibrator provided in an accommodating part at an end of a tube-like shaft, around an axis parallel with an...
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5605154 |
Two-dimensional phase correction using a deformable ultrasonic transducer array
A medical ultrasound array transducer assembly for achieving two-dimensional phase correction of an aberrated ultrasound beam is disclosed. The array transducer assembly comprises a plurality of...
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5598846 |
Rotatable ultrasound transducer finger probe
A rotatable finger probe provides rotation of an image plane about an image axis in interoperative and intra cavity ultrasound imaging applications. A finger clip attaches the rotatable finger...
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5575286 |
Method and apparatus for generating large compound ultrasound image
An image registration method and apparatus is provided in which consecutive ultrasonic image frames are correlated in order to derive transducer motion information. Since ultrasonic images from...
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5520185 |
Method for recognition and reduction of blood speckle in blood vessel imaging system
In an ultrasound imaging system, ultrasound echoes representing vessel walls are distinguished from ultrasound echoes from blood by using a classifier which employs the mean and variance of the raw...
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5460179 |
Ultrasonic transducer assembly and method of scanning
An ultrasonic transducer assembly includes a transducer unit having an array transducer composed of a plurality of transducer elements for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves to effect...
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5433202 |
High resolution and high contrast ultrasound mammography system with heart monitor and boundary array scanner providing electronic scanning
A synthetic four sided boundary scanner has an electronically switched line array of transducer elements of transducer element on each side of a boundary array scanner, in an ultrasound mammography...
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5431621 |
Process and device of an anatomic anomaly by means of elastic waves, with tracking of the target and automatic triggering of the shootings
A Process and device of location and destruction of an anatomic target includes the periodic emission of a focused treatment beam of elastic waves and an echographic image of the target formed in...
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5381693 |
Ultrasonic imaging apparatus with synthesized focus and setting range markings
In an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, an object to be inspected is scanned while being irradiated by a generated ultrasonic beam. Echo signals from the object are received and a plane image and a...
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5375470 |
Acoustic imaging system
An acoustic imaging system includes pairs of variable gain amplifiers for deriving essentially pairs of signals from respective signals generated in respective ultrasonic vibrators and the pairs of...
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5331962 |
Ultrasound system for corneal biometry
An ultrasonic biometer images an eye structure and enables measurement of a cornea's thickness at various points about the cornea's surface curvature. The biometer employs a liquid bath in contact...
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5318028 |
High resolution ultrasound mammography system and boundary array scanner therefor
A synthetic four sides boundary scanner array is provided for an ultrasound mammography system. Projector and hydrophone elements are alternately disposed on the four array sides for stepped...
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5305755 |
Ultrasonic probe, having transducer array capable of turning around its aperture axis and having a convex lens comprising a viscous resin
An ultrasonic probe has a case of a substantially cylinder shape having a first axis along longitudinal direction thereof. The case has a convex wall in the vicinity of a closed end of the case....
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5291893 |
Endo-luminal ultrasonic instrument and method for its use
An endo-luminal ultrasonic instrument has a motor with a rotatable drive shaft that oscillates back and forth. A flexible catheter sheath is coupled at one end to the motor to oscillate with the...
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5226422 |
Transesophageal echocardiography scanner with rotating image plane
A transesophageal echocardiographic scanner includes a rotatable transducer for rotating the image plane of the scanner. The transducer is a circular shaped array of parallel oriented elements...
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5197475 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing material properties using ultrasound
Apparatus is disclosed for investigating the mechanical properties of a solid material such as bone, including means for positioning the apparatus in proximity to a surface of the material, at...
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