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7643866 |
Method for producing a computed tomography display of tissue structures by applying a contrast medium
A method is disclosed for producing a computed tomography display of tissue structures by applying a contrast medium. A contrast medium is applied to a patient for better visualization of the...
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7641613 |
Ultrasonic contrast agent detection and imaging by low frequency manipulation of high frequency scattering properties
A method for improved detection and imaging of ultrasound contrast agents using dual-band transmitted pulses, is described. The method is based on transmitting a pulse consisting of two frequency...
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7625341 |
Elevation beamwidth control for contrast imaging
The present disclosure relates to contrast imaging. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for contrast imaging in which the elevation beamwidth is controlled to...
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7620442 |
Colonography on an unprepared colon
A method for generating colonography images for colorectal screening of a patient. The patient is administered an amount of radiopaque stool marker which will enable stool present in the patient's...
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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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7606614 |
Prediction methods and apparatus
A method includes predicting a contrast bolus arrival time, and performing at least one of the following: a) automatically switching from a monitor phase to a scan phase at the predicted arrival...
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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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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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7588538 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment and image processing apparatus
After the establishment of the saturation state of a contrast medium which has flowed into a subject for scanning inside a patient given the contrast medium, scan is performed under a high acoustic...
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7578791 |
Automated myocardial contrast echocardiography
A myocardial contrast echo exam is performed by the use of a two dimensional array transducer probe. The probe is held against a selected acoustic window of the body and first and second image...
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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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7565191 |
Tissue site markers for in vivo imaging
The invention is directed biopsy site markers and methods of marking a biopsy site, so that the location of the biopsy cavity is readily visible by conventional imaging methods, particularly by...
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7534210 |
Methods for adaptively varying gain during ultrasound agent quantification
Methods are provided for automatic setting of parameters for contrast agent quantification. Various processes may improve quantification. For example, for consistency in contrast agent...
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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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7524289 |
Resolution optical and ultrasound devices for imaging and treatment of body lumens
A rotationally vibrating imaging catheter and method of utilization has an array of ultrasound or optical transducers and an actuator along with signal processing, display, and power subsystems....
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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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7500953 |
High contrast optoacoustic imaging using nanoparticles
A method of enhancing detection for a specific object in a body. A nanoparticulate is administered to the body for location in an area to be explored for detection of the object, if present. The...
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7467075 |
Three-dimensional finite-element code for electrosurgery and thermal ablation simulations
A system and method for performing a simulation of an electrosurgical procedure are disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating a three-dimensional medium, which includes one or more...
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7458935 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting ultrasound pulses and receiving echo signals at a harmonic of the transmission frequency
A method for transmitting ultrasound pulses and receiving echo signals at a harmonic of the transmission frequency includes the steps of generating a signal for exciting a transducer to transmit at...
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7367948 |
Acoustic monitoring method and system in laser-induced optical breakdown (LIOB)
An acoustic monitoring method and system in laser-induced optical breakdown (LIOB) provides information which characterize material which is broken down, microbubbles in the material, and/or the...
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7367947 |
Elevation beamwidth control for control for contrast imaging
The present disclosure relates to contrast imaging. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for contrast imaging in which the elevation beamwidth is controlled to...
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7338451 |
Ultrasonic scatterer, ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic imaging apparatus
The ultrasonic scatterer of the invention comprises gas-containing particles having an average particle size of 0.01 μm to 10 μm, the ultrasonic imaging method of the invention comprises...
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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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7285095 |
Method of analyzing and displaying blood volume using myocardial blood volume map
A contrast echo image of the myocardium and a cardiac chamber obtained by use of ultrasound diagnostic equipment is analyzed so as to determine the volume of blood within the myocardium. The...
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7278968 |
Ultrasonograph
An ultrasonograph is provided wherein the decrease of the density of the stabilized microbubble contrast agent in a desired body target area can be inhibited, radiating ultrasonic energy required...
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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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7258669 |
Medico-surgical devices
An embryo-transfer catheter has an extruded shaft with a gas-filled lumen that extends helically along the catheter to provide an ultrasound marker. The catheter has a side opening close to a...
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7235052 |
Ultrasound detectable instrument with bubble generator
Ultrasound detectable instrument including a bubble generator having two elements which, upon contact with each other in the presence of a fluid, react with each other to produce gas bubbles which...
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7229413 |
Echogenic coatings with overcoat
An ultrasonically visible solid device for inserting into a non-gas target medium comprises an echogenic surface having structures entrapping gas when the device is in the target medium, the...
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7198601 |
Ultrasonic contrast medium imaging apparatus and method
An ultrasonic enhanced-contrast imager includes an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic wave to an organism and receiving an ultrasonic wave from the organism, a transmitting section for...
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7141235 |
Stabilized gas emulsion containing phospholipid for ultrasound contrast enhancement
A gas emulsion forming composition comprising a dry, hollow, particulate, approximately microspherical material permeated with a gas or gas mixture, which upon dissolution in aqueous liquid forms a...
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7083572 |
Therapeutic delivery systems
Targeted therapeutic delivery systems comprising gas- or gaseous precursor-filled lipid microspheres comprising a therapeutic are described. Methods for employing such microspheres in therapeutic...
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7081092 |
Methods and apparatus for monitoring and quantifying the movement of fluid
Methods, systems and devices are provided for monitoring and quantifying the movement of fluid in a target region. Generally, an imaging agent is introduced into a target region through fluid flow....
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7078015 |
Ultrasound imaging and treatment
Methods of and apparatus for preparing temperature activated gaseous precursor-filled liposomes are described. Gaseous precursor-filled liposomes prepared by these methods are particularly usefull...
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7079886 |
Apparatus and method for programming a KVO phase and a first phase of an injection procedure as a flushing medium phase
A fluid injection arrangement in the context of patient imaging systems, in which phases of contrast medium injection and flushing medium injection can be freely and selectably ordered as to make...
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RE39146 |
Long-lasting aqueous dispersions or suspensions of pressure-resistant gas-filled microvesicles and methods for the preparation thereof
One can impart outstanding resistance against collapse under pressure to gas-filled microvesicle used as contrast agents in ultrasonic echography by using as fillers gases whose solubility in...
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7047063 |
Tissue site markers for in vivo imaging
The invention is directed biopsy site markers and methods of marking a biopsy site, so that the location of the biopsy cavity is readily visible by conventional imaging methods, particularly by...
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7047058 |
Apparatuses, systems and methods for extravasation detection
An apparatus for the detection of extravasation in an imaging procedure includes at least a first source of energy to supply imaging energy to tissue in the vicinity of a site and at least a first...
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7044914 |
Apparatus and method for ultrasonic diagnostic imaging
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus and method wherein both imaging of a contrast effect and imaging of a tissue appearance before and after inflow of a contrast medium can be realized on condition...
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7035681 |
Colonography of an unprepared colon
A method for generating colonography images for colorectal screening of a patient. The patient is administered an amount of radiopaque stool marker which will enable stool present in the patient's...
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7025726 |
Detection of endothelial dysfunction by ultrasonic imaging
A method for non-invasive detection of vascular endothelial dysfunction using ultrasonic imaging is provided.
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7022079 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
With respect to a scanning plane of a subject having been injected with a contrast agent, an ultrasound transmission section 6 transmits for a plurality of times an ultrasonic pulse of such an...
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7014610 |
Echogenic devices and methods of making and using such devices
Echogenic devices, and methods of making and using such devices, are disclosed. In one aspect, the devices include a porous polymeric material that is preparable by extracting a phase separated...
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7003345 |
System and method for enhancing microscope images of tissue using citric acid and agents of the like
A system and method for enhancing images of ex-vivo or in-vivo tissue produced by confocal microscopy, optical coherence tomography, two-photon microscopy, or ultrasound, is provided by applying to...
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6997875 |
Acoustic border detection using power modulation
The method of the invention controls an ultrasound system to identify a boundary between a tissue region and a blood-filled region that lies within an ROI. The method initially administers a...
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RE38971 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method
According to an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a cross section of an examining human body having bubbles implanted as ultrasonic shadowing agent is scanned by an...
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6991606 |
Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus and control method of ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
In transmissions of each frame through intermittent transmissions, by performing ultrasonic wave transmissions while increasing a mechanical function step by step, destructions of bubbles of a...
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6988410 |
Inspection method and apparatus for determining incipient mechanical failure
A method for determining incipient mechanical failure of an object includes insonifying the object with ultrasonic energy at a selected fundamental frequency. Amplitude data is acquired from the...
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6986740 |
Ultrasound contrast using halogenated xanthenes
New contrast agents for ultrasound imaging and methods for use of such agents for imaging of human or animal tissue are described, wherein a primary active component of such medicaments is a...
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6979296 |
Methods for ultrasonic imaging and treating diseased tissues
A method for imaging diseased tissue is provided. The method provides delivering to the diseased tissue a liposomal imaging agent comprising liposomes containing an imaging agent. The liposomal...
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