摘要:
An ultrasound hyperthermia apparatus has a tomographic ultrasound probe for obtaining a tomographic image and a heating applicator for heating a tumor portion. A position detector is provided to detect the positional relationship of the tomographic ultrasound probe and the heating applicator with respect to a living organism, and a hot spot detector detects the position of a focusing point, i.e., a hot spot of the ultrasound radiated from the heating applicator in accordance with position data from the position detector, thereby generating an image signal indicating the hot spot. The image signal indicating the hot spot is superimposed on a tomographic image signal, and the hot spot is displayed on a TV monitor together with the tomographic image.
摘要:
A diagnostic ultrasound system capable of electronically controlling a beam width not only in a scan direction but also in a slice direction orthogonal to the scan direction despite a relatively small circuit scale. The system is provided with an ultrasonic probe having a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged two-dimensionally, and a transmitting/receiving unit for use in scanning an ultrasonic beam, which is transmitted and received by selectively driving the ultrasonic transducers, in the scan direction, and focusing the ultrasonic beam in the slice direction. A driving signal is supplied in common to a plurality of transducers elements adjoining in the slice direction. An echo signal converted by transducers is not only subjected to control of a specified delay time in the scan direction but also received in time sequence and then subjected to control of at least a specified delay time in the slice direction. The echo signal thus-processed is produced into an ultrasound image.
摘要:
A probe for an electronic scanning type ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in which a plurality of real transducers and one or more pseudo-transducers are arranged in a row on a supporting plate. In order to equalize the ultrasonic directivity characteristics of each of the real transducers, the pseudo-transducers are arranged adjacent to the real transducers which are located at the ends of the row, and have approximately the same shape and dimensions as the real transducers.
摘要:
An ultrasonic diagnostic equipment of linear electric scanning type includes a plurality of pulse generators for supplying electric pulses to a plurality of ultrasonic transducers disposed on a plane, gate circuits for driving the pulse generator, a plurality of analogue switching circuits for selecting the reflected ultrasonic pulse signals received by the ultrasonic transducers, and a control circuit for controlling these pulse generators and switching circuits. The control circuit synchronizingly controls the operations of the gate circuits and analogue switching circuits in order to operate a given number of ultrasonic transducers of the plural of the ultrasonic transducers. The pulse generator and switching circuit are provided corresponding to each transducer.
摘要:
An ultrasonic imaging apparatus comprises an ultrasonic transducer for outputting ultrasonic beams and converting echo waves of the ultrasonic beams to a B-mode echo signal corresponding to a B-mode for obtaining a tomographic image and a D-mode echo signal corresponding to a D-mode for obtaining Doppler data, a transmitter circuit for driving the transducer for generating the ultrasonic beams for scanning a subject, a receiver circuit including a gain control circuit for controlling the gain of the B-mode and D-mode echo signals output from the ultrasonic transducer so that the level of the B-mode echo signal is made to equal to that of the D-mode echo signal and for outputting gain-controlled echo signals, and A/D converter for converting the gain-controlled signals to digital signals, and a delay/addition circuit for delaying the digital signals and adding them to output a received signal, a B-mode processor circuit for producing a B-mode image signal from the received signal, a D-mode processor circuit for producing Doppler data from the received signal, and a display for displaying the B-mode image signal and D-mode data.
摘要:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has a probe for transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave and an amplitude-detecting circuit, and in operation transmits an ultrasonic wave into an organism while the organism is scanned by the probe and amplitude-detects a received signal reflected from the inside of the organism, thereby to obtain a tomographic image of the organism. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus further includes a phase detecting circuit and an ultrasonic drive circuit. The ultrasonic drive circuit alternately supplies to the probe a first drive signal for obtaining tomographic image information and a second drive signal for obtaining blood flow information, scans in a direction of the ultrasonic wave transmission according to the first drive signal and sets the ultrasonic wave transmitting direction according to the second drive signal to a desired direction for obtaining blood flow information. Blood flows information may be obtained for a specific point, a specific line, a specific area, or for a specific area in synchronism with the organism's heartbeat. Thereby, the tomographic image information of the organism and the blood flow information as well are simultaneously obtained.
摘要:
A probe for an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided which has a supporting plate and a plurality of electro-acoustic transducers arranged in a line on the supporting plate. A thin film with flexibility and watertightness is attached to the electro-acoustic transducers so that the spaces between the adjacent electro-acoustic transducers are hermetically sealed. The result is a reduction in the acoustic coupling between the adjacent transducers.
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:
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:
An ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving apparatus comprises a plurality of electrical-acoustic converting elements arranged in the same plane; a clock pulse generator; a plurality of first switching circuits coupled between the clock pulse generator and each of the electrical-acoustic converting elements; a data signal receiving circuit; a plurality of second switching circuits coupled between the data signal receiving circuit and each of the electrical-acoustic converting elements; a first control circuit adapted to control the first switching circuit so as to radiate a beam of ultrasonic wave from the electrical-acoustic converring element into a to-be-measured subject by sequentially supplying the clock pulse of the clock pulse generator; and to control the second switching circuit so as to sequentially supply to the data signal receiving circuit an electric signal generated from the electrical-acoustic converring element which receives a beam of ultrasonic wave reflected from the subject; three memories coupled to the data signal receiving circuit; a second control circuit adapted to control the memories so as to sequentially write at a predetermined rate data signals from the data signal receiving circuit into the memories and, when the data signal is being written into one of the memories, read data at a rate higher than the predetermined rate from the remaining memories; and an addition circuit adapted to add together the readout data signal from the memories so as to deliver an output.