Ultrasound scanner with mapped data storage
US4458689A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 3, 1982 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 3, 2002 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10K11/352
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An ultrasound scanning system including an array of ultrasound transducers and a transporter for moving the transducers over a human back. The movement of the ultrasound transducers define a plane and a position transducer produces a position signal representative of the position of the ultrasound transducers in the plane. There is a means for producing a range signal representative of the distance between the transducers and the objects imaged in the back. The range signals are digitized and stored in an array in a digital memory with the position of each stored range signal in the array corresponding to the position of the transducer from which the range signal was obtained in the plane at the time the range signal was received. The range information is printed on a page or displayed on a cathode ray tube with the position of the printed data on the page or the data displayed on the cathode ray tube corresponding to the position on the plane of the back from which the data was obtained.
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