Ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving apparatus
    11.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving apparatus 失效
    超声波发射和接收装置

    公开(公告)号:US4019169A

    公开(公告)日:1977-04-19

    申请号:US616390

    申请日:1975-09-24

    申请人: Kinya Takamizawa

    发明人: Kinya Takamizawa

    摘要: An ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a control pulse generator for sequentially generating control pulses from its output terminals with a cyclically varied delay time. The control pulses are controlled in such a delay time relation as to enable the beams of ultrasonic waves to be deflected in left and right directions. The output pulse signals of deflection control units are controlled in such a delay time relation as to permit the beams of ultrasonic waves to be brought into focus by electron focussing control units. By the output pulses of the electron focussing control units, drive pulse generators are driven to supply drive pulses to electroacoustic conversion elements for generating the above-mentioned beams of ultrasonic waves. Some of the ultrasonic waves radiated in a medium is reflected at a boundary between two objects different in physical property (acoustic impedance) from each other and converted through the electroacoustic conversion elements to electric signals. The reflection wave signals so converted are sequentially stored in memory units, the contents of which are read out in response to the output pulse signals of the electronic focussing control units. The readout signals are, after being added together, supplied to a cathode ray tube.

    摘要翻译: 超声波发送和接收装置包括控制脉冲发生器,用于以周期性变化的延迟时间从其输出端子顺序产生控制脉冲。 以这样的延迟时间关系控制控制脉冲,使得超声波束能够在左右方向上偏转。 偏转控制单元的输出脉冲信号以这样的延迟时间关系被控制,以允许超声波束通过电子聚焦控制单元聚焦。 通过电子聚焦控制单元的输出脉冲,驱动脉冲发生器被驱动以向用于产生上述超声波束的电声转换元件提供驱动脉冲。 在介质中辐射的一些超声波在物理特性(声阻抗)彼此不同的物体之间的边界处被反射,并且通过电声转换元件转换成电信号。 这样转换的反射波信号依次存储在存储单元中,其内容响应于电子聚焦控制单元的输出脉冲信号被读出。 读出信号在加到一起后被提供给阴极射线管。

    Method and system for acquiring flow velocities in ultrasound diagnosis
apparatus
    12.
    发明授权
    Method and system for acquiring flow velocities in ultrasound diagnosis apparatus 失效
    超声波诊断装置获取流量的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US5231573A

    公开(公告)日:1993-07-27

    申请号:US516909

    申请日:1990-04-30

    申请人: Kinya Takamizawa

    发明人: Kinya Takamizawa

    IPC分类号: A61B8/06 G01P5/24 G01S15/58

    摘要: In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, a plurality of transducers arranged in an ultrasound probe are classified into two transducer groups. By using a parallel simultaneous reception method, ultrasound beams from an observation point of an object to be examined along a transmitting direction of an ultrasound beam are received by the transducer groups. In other words, echo signals from different directions at the observation point are received. Flow velocities are respectively calculated on the basis of the echo signals received by the transducer groups, and the calculated flow velocities are added and averaged.

    摘要翻译: 在超声波诊断装置中,配置在超声波探头中的多个换能器分为两个换能器组。 通过使用并行同时接收方法,由换能器组接收来自沿着超声波束的发送方向的被检体物体的观察点的超声波束。 换句话说,接收来自观察点的来自不同方向的回波信号。 基于由换能器组接收的回波信号分别计算流速,并且计算出的流速被加和平均。

    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
    13.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus 失效
    超声波诊断仪

    公开(公告)号:US5421333A

    公开(公告)日:1995-06-06

    申请号:US137269

    申请日:1993-10-18

    摘要: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is used to obtain ultrasonic tomography images of subjects under examination. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the present invention comprises an ultrasonic probe consisting of an array of transducer elements for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves, driving means for producing driving signals to excite said transducer elements so that a transmitting beam is transmitted from the ultrasonic probe in a predetermined direction, receiving means for receiving ultrasonic reflected waves from within a subject under examination which form a receiving waves from a predetermined direction of reception by a predetermined number of elements of the plurality of transducer elements and outputting a receive signal, ultrasonic beam direction control means for controlling the driving signals and the receive signal so that the transmitting beam and the receiving waves cross each other within a predetermined region within the subject and the region where the transmitting beam and the receiving waves cross each other is shifted along the direction of the transmitting beam with time, and display means for displaying ultrasonic reflected waves received by the receiving means as an image.

    摘要翻译: 超声波诊断装置用于获得被检查对象的超声波断层图像。 本发明的超声波诊断装置包括由用于发送和接收超声波的换能器元件阵列组成的超声波探头,用于产生用于激励所述换能器元件的驱动信号的驱动装置,使得发射束从超声波探头传输到 接收装置,用于从被检查对象内接收超声波反射波,该多个反射波从预定的接收方向通过多个换能器元件的预定数量的元件形成接收波,并输出接收信号;超声波束方向控制装置 用于控制驱动信号和接收信号,使得发射波束和接收波在对象内的预定区域内彼此交叉,并且发射波束和接收波彼此交叉的区域沿着发射方向 b 和显示装置,用于显示由接收装置接收的超声波反射波作为图像。

    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
    14.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus 失效
    超声波诊断仪

    公开(公告)号:US5417219A

    公开(公告)日:1995-05-23

    申请号:US181235

    申请日:1994-01-13

    IPC分类号: A61B8/14 G01S15/89 A61B8/00

    CPC分类号: G01S15/892

    摘要: In an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, ultrasound beams are diffused in the slice direction perpendicular to the scanning direction to thereby scan a three-dimensional region of a subject under examination with wide ultrasound beams. Thus, echoes are detected accumulated in the slice direction. Echoes from the surface of a region of interest, such as a fetus, are stronger than echoes from within the region of interest. As a consequence, an ultrasonic image is produced which approximates a surface image. The amount of data required to produce an ultrasonic image, the ultrasonic beam scanning procedure, and the signal processing system are the same as before, which permits real-time operation. A conventional ultrasonic imaging apparatus can be used without modification except a probe adapter for diffusing ultrasound beams in the slice direction.

    摘要翻译: 在超声波成像装置中,超声波束在垂直于扫描方向的切片方向上扩散,从而用宽超声波束扫描检查对象的三维区域。 因此,检测到沿切片方向累积的回波。 来自感兴趣区域(例如胎儿)的表面的回声比来自感兴趣区域内的回声强。 因此,产生近似表面图像的超声波图像。 产生超声波图像,超声波束扫描程序和信号处理系统所需的数据量与以前相同,这允许实时操作。 除了用于在切片方向上扩散超声波束的探针适配器之外,可以使用常规的超声波成像装置。

    Method and apparatus for measuring ultrasonic velocity by crossed beam
    16.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for measuring ultrasonic velocity by crossed beam 失效
    通过横梁测量超声波速度的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4821574A

    公开(公告)日:1989-04-18

    申请号:US75603

    申请日:1987-07-20

    申请人: Kinya Takamizawa

    发明人: Kinya Takamizawa

    IPC分类号: G01H5/00 G01S7/52 G01N29/04

    摘要: A measuring apparatus for an ultrasonic velocity in a region of interest within a medium includes an array transducer, and a velocity measuring circuit. The transducer is constructed of a plurality of transducer elements which are subdivided into at least first and second transmitting sections and first and second receiving sections with having a distance. First and second ultrasonic beams are emitted from the first and second transmitting sections to the ROI under the condition that the transmitting beam axis is intersected by the receiving ultrasonic beam axis. Then, the first and second receiver sections receives in total four echoes reflected from four corners of the ROI. The velocity measuring circuit calculates the propagation time of the ultrasonic beams and finally the ultrasonic velocity based upon the propagation time.

    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
    17.
    发明授权
    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus 失效
    超声波诊断仪

    公开(公告)号:US4542746A

    公开(公告)日:1985-09-24

    申请号:US469315

    申请日:1983-02-24

    申请人: Kinya Takamizawa

    发明人: Kinya Takamizawa

    IPC分类号: G01S15/89 G10K11/34 A61B10/00

    摘要: In an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus using an array type transducer probe, wherein improved tomographic image resolution is desired by electronically focusing ultrasonic wave toward an object to be examined in both directions, i.e., the array direction and the lens direction. During first scanning of the ultrasonic transducer array in the array direction, the signals received from the probe are synthesized in phase with respect to each other via delay lines having predetermined delay times to obtain first scanned signals in real time, so that focusing the reflected ultrasonic wave can be electronically accomplished in the array direction. After this first scanning, the probe is mechanically moved to a given position in the lens direction normal to the array direction. Then a second scanning operation is accomplished to obtain similar first scanned signals. All of the first scanned signals are processed by a delay time control circuit, digitized, and then stored. Finally, all of the stored first scanned signals are read out and synthesized in phase with respect to each other by an adder circuit to obtain second scanned signals, so that focusing the reflected ultrasonic wave can be accomplished in the lens direction. The resultant second scanned signals are converted into analogue signals to be displayed as a tomographic image of the desired diagnostic part in the object.

    摘要翻译: 在使用阵列式换能器探头的超声波诊断装置中,通过将超声波以两个方向,即阵列方向和透镜方向电子地聚焦到待检查对象,期望提高断层图像分辨率。 在超声波换能器阵列沿阵列方向的第一扫描期间,从探头接收的信号通过具有预定延迟时间的延迟线相位相互合成,以实时获得第一扫描信号,从而聚焦反射超声波 波可以在阵列方向电子地完成。 在第一次扫描之后,将探头机械地移动到垂直于阵列方向的透镜方向上的给定位置。 然后进行第二扫描操作以获得类似的第一扫描信号。 所有第一扫描信号由延迟时间控制电路处理,数字化,然后存储。 最后,所有存储的第一扫描信号通过加法器电路相位相位读出并合成,以获得第二扫描信号,从而可以在透镜方向上实现聚焦反射的超声波。 所得到的第二扫描信号被转换成模拟信号,以被显示为对象中期望的诊断部分的断层图像。