Ultrasound tomography device

US4478084A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Hassler · Uttenreuth, DE
• Elmar Trautenberg · Ergolding, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 1983
• Grant date: Oct 23, 1984
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B8/406
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An ultrasound tomography device for scanning an object under examination from a plurality of directions. Coronal slice images of the plane or planes near or at the female breast wall are obtained. A sagittal scanner is used to obtain numerous small sectional oblique views of the slice to be viewed. A full image of the coronal slice plane is reconstructed through section by section combination of the images obtained from the several small sagittal sections. By providing the sagittal scanner with a scanning motion as well as with translational mobility a full composite view is provided.