| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
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| 161 | Medical system and method for providing optimal ultrasonic image for catheter treatment | JP2011110746 | 2011-05-17 | JP2012105948A | 2012-06-07 | KIM CHUL-AM; YOUNG SEUK SONG; HYUN DONG GYU |
| PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical system and a method for providing optimal ultrasonic images for catheter treatment.SOLUTION: This medical system includes: medical equipment including a needle to be implanted into a subject body to remove a lesion of the subject and a vibration applying part for applying vibration to the needle; an ultrasonic data acquisition section for transmitting ultrasonic signals to the subject, receiving ultrasonic echo signals reflected on the subject and acquiring ultrasonic data; and a processor coupled to the medical equipment and the ultrasonic data acquisition section, forming a plurality of ultrasonic images using the ultrasonic data, performing motion tracking to each of the ultrasonic images to detect the position of the needle, and applying image processing for enhancing the quality of the ultrasonic images to the plurality of the ultrasonic images on the basis of the detected position of the needle. | ||||||
| 162 | Tissue Doppler image forming apparatus and method using a synthetic image | JP2010530936 | 2008-10-24 | JP2011500261A | 2011-01-06 | ジョン ホ ハム，; ム ホ ベ， |
| 【課題】スキャンライン別にアンサンブル数だけの超音波を反復的に送信しなくてもフレーム率の低下なしに、ＴＤＩを形成できる装置および方法が開示される。
【解決手段】本発明によれば、非順次的方式でビームを送信し、送信ビームの各送信に対応して受信される複数の受信ビームをスキャンラインインデックスの増加方向の増加データと減少方向の減少データとにグルーピングする。 スキャンラインインデックスの増加および減少方向によるデータグループ別に自己相関を実施し、増加および減少データグループに対する自己相関値それぞれに対して加重値を乗じて、得られた値を合算して平均位相を求める。 この平均位相に対応する速度値、パワー値、分散値のうち少なくとも１つを出力してＴＤＩを形成する。 【選択図】図４ |
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| 163 | Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and ultrasound diagnostic method | JP2009088363 | 2009-03-31 | JP2010099452A | 2010-05-06 | KATSUYAMA KIMITO |
| <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic method with which a sound speed value (local sound speed value) in any region to be diagnosed in a subject is calculated with high accuracy. <P>SOLUTION: It is assumed that a sound speed at least between the lattice point X<SB>ROI</SB>and each of the lattice points A1, A2, etc., is constant. In the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, (T and delay times ΔT) of received waves (W<SB>A1</SB>, W<SB>A2</SB>, etc., respectively) from the lattice points A1, A2, etc., are regarded as known, and a local sound speed value at the lattice point X<SB>ROI</SB>is obtained from a positional relationship between the lattice point X<SB>ROI</SB>and the lattice points A1, A2, etc. Specifically, using the fact that an assumed received wave W<SB>X</SB>from the lattice point X<SB>ROI</SB>matches a received wave W<SB>SUM</SB>of an assumed synthesis of the received waves from the lattice points A1, A2, etc., by Huygens' principle. The value of an assumed sound speed at which the error between the received wave W<SB>X</SB>and the assumed resultant received wave W<SB>SUM</SB>is at minimum is determined as a local sound speed value at the lattice point X<SB>ROI</SB>. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT | ||||||
| 164 | Alignment method of medical image | JP2004560339 | 2003-11-25 | JP2006509580A | 2006-03-23 | ウィリス，エヌ．，パーカー |
| 体組織から取り出した画像を整列させるシステムおよび装置。 撮像アッセンブリは患者の身体内に導入され、軸を中心に回転する。 この撮像アッセンブリに機械的に関連する追跡ビームを発生し、追跡ビームが撮像アッセンブリにあわせて前記軸を中心に回転する。 この回転追跡ビームの角度は、基準回転方向と基準点の間で決定される。 基準回転方位は超音波画像データ内の起点に関連させて、超音波画像が前記決定された追跡ビームの回転角度に基づいて方向付けされる。 | ||||||
| 165 | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic photographing | JP2001162590 | 2001-05-30 | JP2002360567A | 2002-12-17 | HAYASAKA KAZUSUMI |
| PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate ultrasonic photographing in a proper condition. SOLUTION: Whenever a new picture frame is obtained, a correlation value with a picture frame before the obtained frame is calculated and the sound ray density of scanning is increased/reduced according to the increase/reduction of the correlation value to expand and reduce the dynamic range of echo reception to intensify/weaken the frame averaging of the picture frame. | ||||||
| 166 | INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING DEVICES HAVING A LOW REVERBERATION HOUSING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PCT/IB2015056419 | 2015-08-25 | WO2016030812A2 | 2016-03-03 | CORL PAUL DOUGLAS |
| Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to intravascular imaging devices having a low reverberation housing and associated systems and methods. In some particular embodiments, the devices of the present disclosure include a transducerhousing having a trough on the backside of the ultrasound transducer to deflect ultrasound signals away from the ultrasound transducer. For example, in some implementations an intravascular imaging device is provided that includes a catheter body; a drivecable extending through a lumen of the catheter body; a housing coupled to a distal section of the drive cable; and an ultrasound transducer mounted within the housing, wherein the housing includes a trough on a backside of the ultrasound transducer, the trough shaped to deflect ultrasound signals away from the ultrasound transducer. Methods of making such devices and systems are also provided. | ||||||
| 167 | ROTATIONAL INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH AN ACTIVE SPINNING ELEMENT | PCT/US2010026491 | 2010-03-08 | WO2010104775A3 | 2011-01-13 | CORL PAUL DOUGLAS |
| An intravascular ultrasound probe is disclosed, incorporating features for utilizing an advanced transducer technology on a rotating transducer shaft. In particular, the probe accommodates the transmission of the multitude of signals across the boundary between the rotary and stationary components of the probe required to support an advanced transducer technology. These advanced transducer technologies offer the potential for increased bandwidth, improved beam profiles, better signal to noise ratio, reduced manufacturing costs, advanced tissue characterization algorithms, and other desirable features. Furthermore, the inclusion of electronic components on the spinning side of the probe can be highly advantageous in terms of preserving maximum signal to noise ratio and signal fidelity, along with other performance benefits. | ||||||
| 168 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGE USING SYNTHETIC IMAGE | PCT/KR2008006319 | 2008-10-24 | WO2009054706A3 | 2009-07-23 | BAE MOO HO; HAM JEONG HO |
| There are provided an apparatus and method capable of producing a tissue Doppler image without repeatedly transmitting ultrasound signals by the ensemble number to each scan line. In accordance with the present invention, an ultrasound beam is transmitted in a non-sequential manner and a plurality of receive beams received in response to each transmission of the transmit beam are grouped into an increment data group of a scan line index increasing direction and a decrement data group of a scan line index decreasing direction. Auto correlation is performed for the increment and decrement data groups of the scan line increasing and decreasing directions, weights are applied to respective auto correlation values for the increment and decrement data group, and then the auto correlation values with the weight applied are summed to compute a mean phase. At least one of velocities, powers and variances in response to the mean phase is outputted to produce TDI. | ||||||
| 169 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE | EP17755982.0 | 2017-01-11 | EP3420915A1 | 2019-01-02 | IMAI, Yoshiro |
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an imaging unit that transmits and receives an ultrasound beam to and from a subject using the ultrasound probe and converts a received signal output from the ultrasound probe into an image to generate an ultrasound image of the subject; a collation pattern memory that stores a plurality of collation patterns corresponding to a plurality of examination parts of the subject in advance; an information input unit that is used by a user to input examination type information indicating content of an examination for continuously examining the plurality of examination parts; a determination order decision unit that decides a determination order of the plurality of examination parts to be continuously examined, on the basis of the examination type information input to the information input unit; and a part determination unit that reads the collation patterns corresponding to the examination parts to be continuously examined from the collation pattern memory according to the determination order decided by the determination order decision unit and sequentially collates the ultrasound image generated by the imaging unit in the determination order using the read collation patterns to determine an imaging part of the subject. |
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| 170 | MEDICAL DEVICE FOR THE DETECTION, MEASUREMENT, IN AN UNBLOODY AND NON-INVASIVE MANNER, AND TRANSMISSION OF VITAL, BIOMEDICAL PARAMETERS, SUCH AS CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS, OF A HUMAN BODY | EP14825435.2 | 2014-10-17 | EP3057501B1 | 2018-12-26 | Salerno, Mario |
| A medical device for detecting, measuring and transmitting vital parameters and biomedical data such as the continuous or instantaneous recording of an electrocardiography, acquisition of a Doppler ultrasonography of ascending aorta and of a echocardiography, with immediate or remote operations, by means of units inserted in the device, on the human body, in a non-invasive way, comprising: a flexible strip-shaped support adapted to be applied on the human body in the area of the neck; one or more units adapted to detect body parameters; one or more connection interfaces for transmitting and receiving data and the parameters towards external units; hardware and software electronic components integrated inside the flexible support and adapted to receive the body parameters from the one or more units, store them, organize them and transmit them by connection interfaces; a sim card allowing transmission and reception. | ||||||
| 171 | Method, apparatus, and system for adjusting brightness of ultrasound image by using prestored gradation data and images | EP14177966.0 | 2014-07-22 | EP2927707B1 | 2018-08-29 | Yang, Sun-mo; Kim, Chul-an; Jo, Jae-moon |
| Provided is a method of adjusting brightness of an ultrasound image including : generating at least one first image representing a region of interest (ROI) by using echo signals corresponding to ultrasound waves irradiated toward the ROI; adjusting brightness of the at least one first image based on an external signal for selecting at least one selected from a plurality of prestored gradation data and a plurality of prestored image data; and generating a second image representing the ROI based on the adjusted brightness. | ||||||
| 172 | TWO DIMENSIONAL ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM WITH TWO BEAMFORMER STAGES | EP12741385.4 | 2012-06-28 | EP2726903B1 | 2018-08-08 | POLAND, McKee, Dunn; ROBINSON, Andrew, Lee |
| A 2D ultrasound imaging system has a number of different probes for different clinical applications. Each 2D imaging probe has a one dimensional array transducer and one or more microbeamformers coupled to the individual elements of the array. Preferably the microbeamformers are the same, and serve as a standard component of the system. The microbeamformers combine signals from the elements of their transducers and every probe has from four to sixteen outputs of partially beamformed signals. The mainframe system has a beamformer with four to sixteen channels, which completes the beamformation process for each probe. | ||||||
| 173 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING MEDICAL DOSSIER | EP16760414.9 | 2016-08-24 | EP3345110A1 | 2018-07-11 | DOBREAN, George |
| A system and method for compiling a clinically logical medical dossier for a patient. A list of medical conditions can be determined for the patient. A plurality of medical imaging records for the patient can be identified, and each record can be assigned to one of the conditions. A timeline of condition-specific imaging records can then be generated for each condition. A condition can be selected and the timeline of condition-specific imaging records for the selected condition can then be displayed. | ||||||
| 174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING FEEDBACK | EP15854647 | 2015-10-27 | EP3212087A4 | 2018-07-11 | STOLKA PHILIPP JAKOB; FOROUGHI PEZHMAN; RENDINA MATTHEW C; HAGER GREGORY DONALD; OKAMURA ALLISON MARIKO |
| A system for guidance of an imaging device may include a handheld imaging device, a multidirectional feedback device, and a control unit in communication with the multidirectional feedback device and the handheld imaging device. The control unit may be configured to receive a target location, determine an initial position and pose of the handheld imaging device, calculate a position and pose deviation relative to said initial position and pose, translate said position and pose deviation into control data, and transmit said control data to the multidirectional feedback device, wherein the multidirectional feedback device uses control data to provide an operator with feedback to guide the handheld imaging device towards the target. | ||||||
| 175 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR | EP17204611.2 | 2017-11-30 | EP3332713A1 | 2018-06-13 | Bang, Won-Chul; Ryu, Ji-won; Oh, Young-taek |
A medical image display apparatus for displaying a medical image generated from first medical image data obtained from an object by a probe, including at least one processor configured to obtain information about a position at which tissue from the object is extracted by a needle, based on a signal received from a sensor attached to at least one from among the probe and the needle, and locate a tissue extraction position in the first medical image data based on the information, and a display configured to display a first medical image on which the tissue extraction position is marked, the first medical image being generated from the first medical image data
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| 176 | SHARING INFORMATION OF MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS | EP17193400.3 | 2014-07-01 | EP3298966A1 | 2018-03-28 | Jung, Jong-woo; Yang, Eun-ho |
Provided is a method of sharing information about an ultrasound image with an external device by a medical imaging apparatus. The method includes: acquiring an ultrasound image of an object; identifying a sharing level of an external device for sharing the ultrasound image; and transmitting ultrasound information about the ultrasound image to the external device according to the sharing level.
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| 177 | AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM WITH STEREO IMAGE GUIDANCE OR TRACKING | EP14865471 | 2014-11-25 | EP3076875A4 | 2017-11-01 | STOLKA PHILIPP J; FOROUGHI PEZHMAN; RENDINA MATTHEW C; HAGER GREGORY D; BOCTOR EMAD M |
| 178 | BEAMFORMING APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC PROBE HAVING THE SAME, ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | EP16188815.1 | 2016-09-14 | EP3207875A1 | 2017-08-23 | LEE, Woo Youl; SONG, Tae-kyong; KANG, Hyun Gil; PARK, Ji Won |
The present disclosure provides a beamforming apparatus, ultrasonic probe having the same, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and controlling method thereof, which increases the quality of an image in a region of interest by adjusting time delays of analog and digital beamformers in a two dimensional (2D) transducer of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a beamforming apparatus for beamforming ultrasound received through a two dimensional (2D) arrayed ultrasonic transducer is provided. The apparatus includes an analog beamformer for delaying analog signals received from a subarray including at least one array of the transducer; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for converting an analog signal to a digital signal; a digital beamformer for beamforming the digital signal; and a beamformer controller for calculating an initial time delay based on a reference focus point corresponding to a region of interest, and determining a starting point of a sample and hold (S/H) circuit included in the analog beamformer.
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| 179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING THE CONTACT POSITION OF AN ULTRASOUND PROBE ON A HEAD | EP13701071.6 | 2013-01-23 | EP2948923B1 | 2017-05-31 | VOLLMER, Fritz; THIEMANN, Ingmar |
| 180 | PORTABLE ULTRASOUND USER INTERFACE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | EP15818872.2 | 2015-07-08 | EP3166499A2 | 2017-05-17 | MURPHY, Sean; MCCABE, Larry; HENDERSON, Richard |
| A portable ultrasound system includes a main screen included in a hinged portion of the portable ultrasound system configured to open and close relative to a main housing of the portable ultrasound system, a touchscreen included on a top surface of the main housing of the portable ultrasound system, and a touchpad included on the top surface of the main housing of the portable ultrasound system. The system further includes a processing circuit configured to perform general computing operations, configured to receive ultrasound imaging data, and configured to provide ultrasound information to at least one of the main screen, the touchscreen, or the touchpad. | ||||||
