公开(公告)号：US06217519B1

公开(公告)日：2001-04-17

申请号：US09194174

申请日：1998-11-20

申请人： Karl-Ernst Grund ,  Martin Kimmel ,  Dieter Denner ,  Gerold Widenhorn ,  Jürgen Zolondz

发明人： Karl-Ernst Grund ,  Martin Kimmel ,  Dieter Denner ,  Gerold Widenhorn ,  Jürgen Zolondz

IPC分类号： A61B812

CPC分类号： A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/06

摘要： The invention concerns an apparatus for viewing vessels, in particular blood vessels, in body cavities and hollow organs, comprising an ultrasonic transducer (14) which can be guided into a viewing position by means of an endoscopy device (10, 12), an ultrasonic unit (34) which can be connected to the ultrasonic transducer (14) and which is based on the Doppler principle and which is designed to detect an organ and/or fluid movement at at least one predetermined spacing from the ultrasonic transducer, a Doppler evaluation unit (38) which is connected downstream of the ultrasonic unit (34) and which is designed for digital conversion of an output signal of the ultrasonic unit (34) into a visual representation of the organ and/or fluid movement at the at least one predetermined spacing, and a video output unit (40) which receives an output image signal of the Doppler evaluation unit (38) and an electronic image signal of the endoscopy device (12) and which is designed to produce a combined overall image (24) for a display screen which can show both an endoscopy image (26) and also at least one representation (28) of the organ and/or fluid movement.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及一种用于在体腔和中空器官中观察血管，特别是血管的装置，包括可通过内窥镜检查装置（10,12）引导到观察位置的超声波换能器（14），超声波 单元（34），其可以连接到超声换能器（14）并且其基于多普勒原理，并且被设计成以与超声换能器至少一个预定间隔检测器官和/或流体运动，多普勒评估 单元（38），其连接在所述超声波单元（34）的下游并被设计用于将所述超声波单元（34）的输出信号数字转换为所述至少一个的所述器官和/或流体运动的视觉表示 以及视频输出单元（40），其接收多普勒评估单元（38）的输出图像信号和内窥镜检查装置（12）的电子图像信号，并且被设计为产生组合 用于显示屏幕的整体图像（24），其可以显示内窥镜图像（26）和器官和/或流体运动的至少一个表示（28）。