Three dimensional ultrasound imaging system

US5562095A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Victoria Hospital Corporation · US
• London Health Assoc. · CA

Inventors

• Donal Downey · London, CA
• Aaron Fenster · London, CA
• John D. Miller · Arvada, US
• Shidong Tong · London, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 4, 1995
• Grant date: Oct 8, 1996
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S128/916
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A 3-D ultrasound imaging system for the eye, prostate and other organs, comprising an assembly onto which an ultrasound probe may be mounted, a motor and drive for either rotating or scanning the probe relative to the human organ under investigation, and a computer for executing proprietary software for controlling movement of the assembly to rotate or scan the probe. Ultrasound signals from the probe are processed via a clinical ultrasound machine for generating multiple images of the organ. The proprietary software being executed on the computer collects the 2-D ultrasound images of the clinical ultrasound machine and reconstructs these images to form a 3-D display which can be viewed and manipulated in real time, or stored for later retrieval.