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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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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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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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7558402 |
System and method for tracking a global shape of an object in motion
A system and method for tracking a global shape of an object in motion is disclosed. One or more control points along an initial contour of the global shape are defined. Each of the one or more...
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7497829 |
Data recording system
A ring buffer records image data output from an ultrasound diagnosis device in units of frames. A user identifies, on an image, occurrence of a target symptom while viewing a cross sectional image...
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7458936 |
System and method for performing probabilistic classification and decision support using multidimensional medical image databases
A system and method for providing decision support to a physician during a medical examination is disclosed. Data is received from a sensor representing a particular medical measurement. The...
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7455640 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
A tomographic image and a tissue characteristic image that are in conformity with each other in terms of time-phase and positional relationships can be displayed superimposedly, thereby providing...
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7422561 |
Ultrasonographic system and ultrasonography
An ultrasonic diagnostic system prepares a diagnostic data including image by transmitting ultrasonic pulses to a living tissue, and receiving and analyzing reflected wave of the ultrasonic pulses,...
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7404798 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus control method
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided with an ultrasonic probe driving section 2 , a receiving section 5 for amplifying an ultrasonic reflected wave, a phase detecting section 6 for...
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7399279 |
Transmitter patterns for multi beam reception
Provided herein is a method for use in medical applications that permits (1) affordable three-dimensional imaging of blood flow using a low-profile easily-attached transducer pad, (2) real-time...
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7272529 |
Dual wall turbine blade ultrasonic wall thickness measurement technique
A method and apparatus is provided to analyze a dual wall structure having at least one hollow core therein and having the same unknown material sound velocities in walls and in post as well. A...
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7211045 |
Method and system for using ultrasound in cardiac diagnosis and therapy
A method and system for estimating the volume of blood ejected from the left ventricle of the heart to a succeeding chamber/conduit, or vice-versa, while imaging the intersection of such structures...
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7020511 |
Method for three dimensional cine EBA/CTA imaging
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for three-dimensional cine EBA/CTA imaging. The method includes monitoring a cardiac cycle of a patient and selecting a trigger point...
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6979294 |
Split-screen display system and standardized methods for ultrasound image acquisition and processing for improved measurements of vascular structures
A standardized acquisition methodology assists operators to accurately replicate high resolution B-mode ultrasound images obtained over several spaced-apart examinations. The methodology utilizes a...
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6976961 |
Tissue motion analysis medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method
Accurate tissue motion systems and methods are provided. Motion of the ultrasound transducer is accounted for in estimates at tissue motion. Correcting for transducer motion better isolates...
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6963907 |
Internet device operation for medical testing
A method of operating an Internet device, includes downloading via the Internet a medical testing program from a server. At least one sensor is coupled to the Internet device. The sensor is...
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6915155 |
Medical testing system with an illuminating component and automatic shut-off
A medical testing system has an instrument for monitoring a characteristic of a patient and an illuminating component for illuminating the instrument. The instrument includes a component for...
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6884218 |
Three dimensional vector cardiograph and method for detecting and monitoring ischemic events
A method of determining an ischemic event includes the steps of: monitoring and storing an initial electrocardiogram vector signal (x, y, z) of a known non-ischemic condition over the QRS, ST and T...
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6884216 |
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and ultrasound image display method and apparatus
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprising an ultrasound probe which includes ultrasound transducers, transmission/reception unit, a physiological characteristic image data generating unit which...
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6758816 |
Pulse wave detector
There is provided a pulse wave detector enabling pulse wave detection with reduced power consumption, and prolonged usage time. Ultrasonic waves having a frequency of 10 MHz are transmitted from a...
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6749571 |
Method and apparatus for cardiac elastography
Elastographic imaging of heart tissue may be used to provide strain images by mapping strain magnitude to brightness and strain sign to hue and thus provide improved clinical indication of...
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6716175 |
Autonomous boundary detection system for echocardiographic images
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating a synthetic echocardiographic image. The method comprises first obtaining, for a plurality of pathologically similar reference hearts,...
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6716166 |
Three-dimensional reconstruction using ultrasound
Apparatus for mapping a surface of a cavity within a body of a subject includes an elongate probe, having a longitudinal axis and including a distal portion adapted for insertion into the cavity. A...
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6679848 |
Method for allowing plug-in architecture for digital echocardiography lab image processing applications
A method of adding a new operation stored in a new operation module to software driving an echocardiographic review station, which performs (a) detecting, by the software driving the...
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6652462 |
Ultrasound display of movement parameter gradients
An ultrasound machine is disclosed that displays a color representation of moving structure, such as a cardiac wall tissue, within a region of interest on a monitor. The color representation is...
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6514207 |
Method and apparatus for processing echocardiogram video images
Methods and a system are disclosed for processing an echocardiogram video of a patient's heart. The echocardiogram comprises at least a first sequence of consecutive video frames corresponding to a...
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6508769 |
Ultrasonic image processing method and examination system for displaying an ultrasonic color-coded image sequence of an object having moving parts
An ultrasonic image processing method includes acquiring ultrasonic signals related to an object having moving parts in a medium; constructing an ultrasonic grayscale 2-D image sequence...
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6491636 |
Automated border detection in ultrasonic diagnostic images
This invention describes automatically tracing a tissue border in an ultrasonic image which is accomplished by acquiring one or more images, locating anatomical landmarks in the image, fitting a...
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6339716 |
Method for determining viability of a myocardial segment
A method of determining the viability of a hibernating or stunned myocardial segment comprises the administration of ribose, a vasodilator and an inotropic agent. The preferred agent is dobutamine,...
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6312382 |
Method and apparatus for extracting cardiac information from acoustic information acquired with an ultrasound device
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for processing acoustic information obtained with an ultrasound device to generate cardiac information, such as, for example, a patient's heart...
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6293913 |
Doppler ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
A Doppler ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus is characterized by: transmitting ultrasonic beams between diagnosis sites including a motion fluid in the object's body; receiving its ultrasonic echoes;...
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6210333 |
Medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method for automated triggered intervals
A region of interest in the body is imaged using at least two different trigger intervals between images. Imaging automatically switches from one trigger interval to another in response to a user...
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6196971 |
Chord propagation velocity measurement system and method for an ultrasound imaging system
A chord propagation velocity measurement (CPVM) system is used in connection with, for example, a brightness-mode (B-mode) or doppler ultrasound imaging system. The CPVM system monitors ultrasound...
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6132373 |
Intima-media thickness measuring apparatus and arterial sclerosis diagnosing system
An apparatus for measuring an intima-media thickness of a blood vessel is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an ultrasound device for outputting digital image data representing an image of the...
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6095976 |
Method for enhancing an image derived from reflected ultrasound signals produced by an ultrasound transmitter and detector inserted in a bodily lumen
A device and method for intravascular ultrasound imaging. A catheter including ultrasonic apparatus is introduced into and may be moved through a bodily lumen. The apparatus transmits ultrasonic...
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6053868 |
Apparatus for a cardiological therapy
The apparatus for a cardiological therapy, in particular an ablation apparatus, comprises an ultrasonic transducer and an applicator which is arranged at the transducer and provided for an...
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5976088 |
Ultrasound imaging systems and methods of increasing the effective acquisition frame rate
Ultrasound imaging data obtained from anatomic structures which have periodic physiologic motion that define successive physiologic cycles is packaged into image loops. Each image loop includes...
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5911133 |
User interface for echocardiographic report generation
A computer-implemented user interface for generating an echocardiographic report includes a patient menu screen from which a user can select an existing report to modify or create a new report....
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5871019 |
Fast cardiac boundary imaging
An ultrasonic transducer acquires a series of ultrasound tomograms as it continuously rotates through a range of angles. When positioned in a left ventricular long axis view, serial sectional...
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5846202 |
Ultrasound method and system for imaging
Color Doppler data is acquired only over a portion of the cardiac cycle, such as during diastole in order to increase the sensitivity of detection. Ultrasound system parameters such as clutter...
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5846198 |
Apparatus for localizing action currents in the heart
An apparatus for localizing action currents in the heart of a living subject has electrodes for acquiring a distribution of electrical potential on the body surface of the living subject generated...
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5840028 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment
This invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic equipment usable to measure small vibrations in myocardial tissues superimposed on a large amplitude vibration of heartbeat. And it comprises a...
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5839441 |
Marking tumors and solid objects in the body with ultrasound
A technique for subspeckle visibility in ultrasound imaging by using the speckle signatures to differentiate soft tissue from dense tissue and solid or compact objects. The information provided by...
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5813986 |
Method of identifying the time phase of the state of an organ to be observed, and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus based on the same
A ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, which is used to inspect the functioning of heart based on ultrasonic images sampled in the expansion period and the contraction period of the heart, includes...
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5795298 |
System for sharing electrocardiogram electrodes and transducers
A device having a combined electrode (20) and position tracking transducer (30) mounted to a surgical instrument, such as a catheter (10). In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the electrode...
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5724975 |
Ultrasonic detection system for transmyocardial revascularization
An ultrasonic detection system for transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) is disclosed using a detector in the TMR handpiece for detecting concealed coronary blood vessels as well as verifying...
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5712801 |
Method for characterizing dynamical systems
A method for characterizing the degree of similarity between phase space representations of trajectories of different dynamical systems. This method provides a computationally efficient technique...
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5601084 |
Determining cardiac wall thickness and motion by imaging and three-dimensional modeling
A method for imaging and three-dimensional modeling portions of the heart, particularly the left ventricular endocardial and epicardial surfaces, using imaging data. Preferably, a transesophageal...
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5579771 |
Method of and apparatus for the detection and characterization of a segment of an artery by ultrasonic echography
An echograph of the type involving signal processing in the time domain with correlation-interpolation of the echographic signals is adapted to measure radial displacement velocities of the walls...
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5568812 |
Diagnostic ultrasound apparatus
A diagnostic ultrasound apparatus includes an ultrasound probe for transmitting and receiving ultrasound beams to and from an object to be observed; a frame memory for storing B-mode ultrasound...
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