公开(公告)号：WO2010031057A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-18

申请号：PCT/US2009/056995

申请日：2009-09-15

Applicant: TERATECH CORPORATION ,  CHIANG, Alice ,  HE, Xingbai ,  WONG, William ,  BERGER, Noah

Inventor： CHIANG, Alice ,  HE, Xingbai ,  WONG, William ,  BERGER, Noah

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  G01S15/89

CPC classification number: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/4444 ,  A61B8/4472 ,  A61B8/4483 ,  A61B8/483 ,  G01S7/52082 ,  G01S7/52095 ,  G01S15/8925 ,  G01S15/8927 ,  G01S15/8959 ,  G01S15/8993 ,  G10K11/346

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system in which the scan head either includes a beamformer circuit that performs far field subarray beamforming or includes a sparse array selecting circuit that actuates selected elements. When used with second stage beamforming system, three dimensional ultrasound images can be generated.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种超声成像系统，其中扫描头还包括执行远场子阵列波束成形的波束形成器电路，或者包括致动选定元件的稀疏阵列选择电路。 当与第二级波束成形系统一起使用时，可以生成三维超声波图像。

公开(公告)号：WO2003079038A3

公开(公告)日：2003-09-25

申请号：PCT/US2003/007455

申请日：2003-03-11

Applicant: TERATECH CORPORATION ,  CHIANG, Alice, M. ,  BERGER, Noah ,  BRODSKY, Michael ,  LAFOREST, Mark ,  WONG, William ,  HE, Xingbai ,  CHANG, Peter

Inventor： CHIANG, Alice, M. ,  BERGER, Noah ,  BRODSKY, Michael ,  LAFOREST, Mark ,  WONG, William ,  HE, Xingbai ,  CHANG, Peter

IPC: G01S15/89

Abstract: A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.

公开(公告)号：WO2003079038A2

公开(公告)日：2003-09-25

申请号：PCT/US2003/007455

申请日：2003-03-11

Applicant: TERATECH CORPORATION ,  CHIANG, Alice, M. ,  BERGER, Noah ,  BRODSKY, Michael ,  LAFOREST, Mark ,  WONG, William ,  HE, Xingbai ,  CHANG, Peter

Inventor： CHIANG, Alice, M. ,  BERGER, Noah ,  BRODSKY, Michael ,  LAFOREST, Mark ,  WONG, William ,  HE, Xingbai ,  CHANG, Peter

IPC: G01S

CPC classification number: A61B8/565 ,  A61B8/0841 ,  A61B8/0866 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/4405 ,  A61B8/4427 ,  A61B8/4444 ,  A61B8/4455 ,  A61B8/4472 ,  A61B8/4477 ,  A61B8/462 ,  A61B8/467 ,  A61B8/485 ,  A61B8/486 ,  A61B8/488 ,  A61B8/54 ,  A61B8/546 ,  A61B8/56 ,  A61B8/582 ,  A61B8/585 ,  A61B10/04 ,  A61B18/02 ,  A61B34/35 ,  A61B90/53 ,  A61B2503/40 ,  A61M25/0108 ,  A61N5/1039 ,  G01S7/5208 ,  G01S15/899 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06F19/3418

Abstract: A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.

Abstract translation: 手持式超声波系统包括人体工程学外壳内的集成电子元件。 电子装置包括控制电路，波束形成和电路传感器驱动电路。 电子设备使用工业标准的高速串行总线与主机通信。 超声波成像系统可在标准的市售的用户计算设备上操作，而无需特定的硬件修改，并且适于与外部应用程序进行接口而不修改超声波成像系统，以允许用户在标准用户计算上收集超声数据 设备，例如PC，并且通过独立的外部应用采用如此收集的数据，而不需要定制系统，昂贵的硬件修改或系统重建。 集成接口程序允许通过诸如视觉基础或c ++的标准的预定平台访问集成接口程序的各种这样的外部应用来调用这种超声数据。