Intracavitary ultrasound probe

US5400790A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Claus Pohan · Baiersdorf, DE
• Karl-Juergen Schmitt · Bamberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 1993
• Grant date: Mar 28, 1995
• Expiry date: Sep 23, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G10K11/355
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An intracavitary ultrasound probe, for producing a number of tomograms of an examination region with a common origin, includes a section adapted for introduction into a body cavity, the section having a distal end with an endpiece in which a convex transducer array is contained. The endpiece is seated in the introduction section so as to be rotatable exclusively around a single swivelling axis. The single swivelling axis is radially aligned with reference to the transducer array.