Ultrasound flow imaging
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11602328B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US16066709

    申请日:2015-12-30

    申请人: B-K Medical Aps

    IPC分类号: A61B8/08 A61B8/06 G01S15/89

    摘要: An ultrasound imaging system includes a transducer array (102) with a plurality of transducer elements (106) configured to transmit an ultrasound signal, receive echo signals produced in response to the ultrasound signal interacting with stationary structure and flowing structure, and generate electrical signals indicative of the echo signals. The system further includes a beamformer (112) configured to process the electrical signals and generate sequences, in time, of beamformed data. The system further includes a filter (118) configured to process the beamformed data, and remove or replace a set of frequency components based on a threshold, producing corrected beamformed data. The system further includes a flow processor (120) configured to estimate a velocity of flowing structure from the corrected beamformed data. The system further includes a rendering engine (224) configured to display the flow velocity estimate on a display (124).

    Image Fusion-Based Tracking without a Tracking Sensor

    公开(公告)号:US20220087638A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-24

    申请号:US17024954

    申请日:2020-09-18

    申请人: B-K Medical ApS

    IPC分类号: A61B8/08 G01S15/89 G01S7/52

    摘要: An ultrasound imaging system include a console with transmit circuitry configured to generate an excitation electrical pulse that excites transducer elements of a probe to produce an ultrasound pressure field and configured to receive an echo signal generated in response to the ultrasound pressure field interacting with tissue. The console further includes receive circuitry configured to convert the echo signal into an electrical signal, and an echo processor configured to generate a live ultrasound image based on the electrical signal into. The console further includes a tracking processor configured to extract, in real-time, a feature common to both the live ultrasound image and previously generated volumetric image data from at least the live ultrasound image, and register, in real-time, the live ultrasound image with previously generated volumetric image data based on the common feature extracted in real-time to create the fused image. A display displays the fused image.

    ARTICULATION ACTIVATION WIRE STRESS RELIEF FOR AN ULTRASOUND IMAGING PROBE

    公开(公告)号:US20210137353A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-13

    申请号:US17157081

    申请日:2021-01-25

    申请人: B-K Medical Aps

    摘要: A probe includes an articulating member with at least two vertebrae elements sequentially arranged along a long axis of the elongate ultrasound imaging probe. The articulating member includes pivots located between the at least two vertebrae elements. The pivots are disposed off-center relative to the at least two vertebrae elements. The pivots are spatially oriented to provide a pivot point for a different articulation direction of a vertebra element. The probe further includes a plurality of guides, including at least one guide for each of the respective different pivot directions. The probe further includes an actuator with a set of controls, each control configured to actuate a different pair of the plurality of guides for controlling opposing articulation directions, wherein the actuator reduces stress induced on at least one of a pushed guide or a non-activated guide, wherein the stress is induced in response to the actuator pulling a guide.

    Ultrasound imaging system touch panel cluster control interaction

    公开(公告)号:US11003352B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US15529564

    申请日:2014-11-26

    申请人: B-K Medical Aps

    摘要: A method includes receiving a signal from a first touch screen control in response to invocation of the first touch screen control. The first touch screen control is a control from a first cluster of touch screen controls of a plurality of different clusters of touch screen controls of an ultrasound imaging system touch screen user interface. The method further includes identifying a type of the first touch screen control based on the signal. The method further includes obtaining a control configuration for the touch screen controls based on the type of control. The method further includes constructing a control layout for the touch screen user interface based on the configuration. The method further includes visually rendering the control layout via the touch screen user interface.

    Articulation activation wire stress relief for an ultrasound imaging probe

    公开(公告)号:US10939808B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-09

    申请号:US15543651

    申请日:2015-01-16

    申请人: B-K Medical Aps

    摘要: A probe includes an articulating member with at least two vertebrae elements sequentially arranged along a long axis of the elongate ultrasound imaging probe. The articulating member includes pivots located between the at least two vertebrae elements. The pivots are disposed off-center relative to the at least two vertebrae elements. The pivots are spatially oriented to provide a pivot point for a different articulation direction of a vertebra element. The probe further includes a plurality of guides, including at least one guide for each of the respective different pivot directions. The probe further includes an actuator with a set of controls, each control configured to actuate a different pair of the plurality of guides for controlling opposing articulation directions, wherein the actuator reduces stress induced on at least one of a pushed guide or a non-activated guide, wherein the stress is induced in response to the actuator pulling a guide.

    Ultrasound imaging transducer electrical noise compensation

    公开(公告)号:US10779800B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US15366487

    申请日:2016-12-01

    申请人: B-K MEDICAL APS

    发明人: Bo Martins

    摘要: An ultrasound imaging system (300) includes one or more transducing elements (304). The ultrasound imaging system further includes a system controller (330) configured to control the one or more transducing elements to receive for a predetermined time duration without first transmitting and produce a noise only signal. The system controller is further configured to control the one or more transducing elements to transmit a set of pulses which causes the one or more transducing elements to transmit a pressures wave and receive echo waves generated in response to the transmitted pressures wave and produce an echo plus noise signal indicative thereof. The ultrasound imaging system further includes a noise processor (320) that compensates the echo plus noise signal with the noise only signal, creating a denoised signal, which is displayed.