公开(公告)号：US20120165670A1

公开(公告)日：2012-06-28

申请号：US13393998

申请日：2010-08-25

申请人： William Tao Shi ,  Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon ,  Jeffry Earl Powers ,  Brent Stephen Robinson ,  Michael Richard Burcher ,  Vijay Shamdasani

发明人： William Tao Shi ,  Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon ,  Jeffry Earl Powers ,  Brent Stephen Robinson ,  Michael Richard Burcher ,  Vijay Shamdasani

IPC分类号： A61B8/13

CPC分类号： A61B8/13 ,  A61B5/6814 ,  A61B8/0808 ,  A61B8/4236 ,  A61B8/4483 ,  A61B8/481 ,  A61B2017/00725 ,  A61B2090/378 ,  A61N7/00 ,  G01S7/52049 ,  G01S15/8913 ,  G01S15/8925

摘要： Ultrasound aberration, especially in transcranial imaging or therapy, is corrected by capturing the laterally two-dimensional nature of the aberration in the ultrasound being received, as by means of a two-dimensional receiving transducer array (104, 108). In some embodiments, transmissive ultrasound (164) is applied through the temporal window and is, for example, emitted from one or more real or virtual point sources (160) at a time, each point source being a single transducer element or patch or the geometrical focus of a collection of elements or patches. A patch may serve, in one aspect as a small focused transducer in the near field. A contralateral array (104, 108) is, in one version, comprised of the point sources. In some aspects, aberration maps structured, independent-variable-wise, to correspond to the array structure of the receiving transducer embody aberration estimates, the ultrasound device being configured for improving ultrasound operation by modifying device settings to improve the location of ultrasound reception/transmission or correct beamforming. Enhancements include beam placement visualization, and intensity and beam shape prediction.

摘要翻译： 通过二维接收换能器阵列（104,108），通过捕获正在接收的超声中的像差的横向二维特性来校正超声像差，特别是经颅成像或治疗。 在一些实施例中，透射超声（164）通过时间窗口被施加，并且例如一次从一个或多个实际或虚拟点源（160）发射，每个点源是单个换能器元件或贴片 元素或补丁集合的几何焦点。 在一个方面，补片可以在近场中用作小型聚焦换能器。 在一个版本中，对侧阵列（104,108）由点源组成。 在一些方面，结构化，独立变量地对应于接收换能器的阵列结构的像差贴图体现了像差估计，超声装置被配置为通过修改装置设置来改善超声波操作来改善超声波接收/发射的位置 或正确的波束成形。 增强功能包括光束放置可视化，强度和光束形状预测。