公开(公告)号：US11759177B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US17287531

申请日：2020-05-15

Applicant: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： Ming Yuchi ,  Mingyue Ding ,  Zhaohui Liu ,  Qiude Zhang ,  Junjie Song ,  Shanshan Wang ,  Liang Zhou ,  Kuolin Liu

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00 ,  G01S15/89 ,  A61B8/14

CPC classification number: A61B8/483 ,  A61B8/085 ,  A61B8/0825 ,  A61B8/145 ,  A61B8/4411 ,  A61B8/5215 ,  G01S15/8927 ,  G01S15/8993

Abstract: A three-dimensional ultrasound tomography method and system based on spiral scanning are provided. The method includes the following. (1) Collecting raw data: an emission array element is switched while a probe maintains a uniform linear motion, so that changes in trajectory with time of a position of an equivalent emission array element in a three-dimensional space show a spiral or a partial spiral, and echo data is received. (2) Pre-processing data. (3) Calculating coordinates of each equivalent emission array element. (4) Calculating coordinates of an imaging focus point. (5) Performing synthetic aperture focusing on each imaging focus point. (6) Post-processing data. The disclosure improves the principle of the imaging method, the design of the overall process, etc. Volume data containing information of continuous tissue layers is obtained through spiral scanning. Applying the synthetic aperture focusing technique in the three-dimensional space improves the resolution between layers and shorten the scan time.

公开(公告)号：US12004903B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17274789

申请日：2019-10-24

Applicant: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： Ming Yuchi ,  Mingyue Ding ,  Qiude Zhang ,  Junjie Song ,  Kuolin Liu ,  Zhaohui Liu ,  Liang Zhou ,  Zhaohui Quan ,  Xiaoyue Fang ,  Yun Wu ,  Quan Zhou

IPC: A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08

CPC classification number: A61B8/145 ,  A61B8/4281 ,  A61B8/4455 ,  A61B8/4494 ,  A61B8/5215

Abstract: A spiral ultrasonic tomography imaging method and system are provided. The method is to use synchronous rotation of an ultrasonic probe or cyclic switching of emission array elements in the ultrasonic probe under the premise of a uniform displacement of the ultrasonic probe along the Z axis, so that the change trajectory of the positions of emission array elements over time in a three-dimensional space at each ultrasonic emission time is distributed along a spiral line or a curve. During the process of the uniform displacement of the ultrasonic probe along the Z axis, the ultrasonic probe emits ultrasonic waves and receives and collects echo data. The collected echo data is stored and post-processed to realize ultrasonic tomography imaging of an object. The spiral ultrasonic tomography three-dimensional scanning method and the corresponding system realize rapid continuous uninterrupted data acquisition to ensure that higher spatial resolution in the Z-axis direction.