Hitachi, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tohoku University

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Sound Wave Innovation Co., Ltd.

Seiko Epson Corporation

Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Hiroshi Kanai

Hideyuki Hasegawa

Hiroaki Shimokawa

Kazuhiro Sunagawa

Yoshiro Koiwa

Yoshinao Tannaka

Takeo Sonobe

Yoshinori Seki

Takao Suzuki

Hisashi Hagiwara

Jiro Tsuruno

Manabu Wakabayashi

Tohru Sampei

Seiichi Hayashi

Kazuo Kikuchi

Keiko Tanigawa

Yousuke Nagano

Takenori Fukumoto

Masayoshi Sunada

Toshimitsu Hayashi

Koji Tsukada

Motonao Tanaka

Hitoshi Ishida

Yosuke Nagano

Noriyoshi Chubachi

Toru Hoshi

Junichi Enomoto

Kazunori Itani

Takashi Mochiduki

Tomohiro Shindo

Hirofumi Taki

Kumiko Eguchi

Tomiyoshi Satoo

Isao Utsugi

Kazuei Saito

Shinji Mizunuma

Tetsuro Hatakeyama

Toshiaki Suematsu

Yasumasa Saito

The present invention provides a device for treating dementia, including: a plurality of ultrasound probes; an ultrasound transducer arranged in each of the ultrasound probes and configured to propagate unfocused ultrasound energy to a brain; and an ultrasound generator connected to each of the ultrasound probes.

Device for treating dementia, method for operating said device, and program

A probe () transmits and receives diagnostic ultrasound and therapeutic ultrasound. A transmission unit () forms a transmission beam of the therapeutic ultrasound having a higher wave number than the diagnostic ultrasound and scans the transmission beam of the therapeutic ultrasound in a therapeutic region set inside a diagnostic region by controlling the probe (). Since the therapeutic ultrasound having a higher wave number than the diagnostic ultrasound is used, the therapeutic effect is higher than when using a therapeutic ultrasound having a similar wave number to the diagnostic ultrasound, and since the transmission beam of the therapeutic ultrasound is scanned in the therapeutic region, the therapeutic effect is higher than when the transmission beam of the therapeutic ultrasound is not scanned.

Ultrasonic treatment device

When a user designates a treatment range on a diagnostic image, a switch () selects a transmitter for treatment (). Ultrasound with intensity for treatment is thereby transmitted from a probe () to the inside of an organism. When the treatment operation continues for a prescribed time, a control unit () controls the switch () to select a transmitter for diagnosis (). The probe () thereby emits an ultrasound beam for diagnosis, senses an echo thereof, generates a diagnostic image, and carries out an inspection of a positional shift of the site to be treated. In the inspection, the control unit () compares the diagnostic image with a reference image, and if a significant difference is detected therebetween, determines that a shift has occurred, issues an alarm, and urges the user to correct the positional shift. It is possible to resume the treatment when the positional shift has been corrected.

Ultrasound treatment device and control method thereof

An ultrasonic measuring device including: an ultrasonic transducer device; an emission unit for emitting an ultrasonic beam; a reception unit for receiving an ultrasonic echo reflected by a test subject; and a processing unit for processing reception, wherein the processing unit identifies a transfer function with respect to the ultrasonic transducer device and the test subject based on a first reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a first area in the test subject, a second reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a second area in the test subject, and a third reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a third area located between the first area and the second area in the test subject, and performs ultrasonic image generation processing including filter processing using a deconvolution filter including the transfer function performed on the reception signals.

Ultrasonic measuring device, ultrasonic image device, and method for processing ultrasonic image

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving an ultrasonic probe that sends out an ultrasonic transmitted wave toward a vital tissue; a receiving section for amplifying an ultrasonic reflected wave, produced by getting the ultrasonic transmitted wave reflected by the vital tissue and then received at the ultrasonic probe, to generate a received signal; a reference point shift measuring section for measuring the magnitude of shift of a reference point that has been set on the received signal; a received signal adjusting section for adjusting the position of the received signal in a distance direction according to the magnitude of shift of the reference point; and a shape variation calculating section for determining the magnitudes of positional displacements at multiple measuring points that have been set in the vital tissue by the received signal adjusted.

Ultrasonograph that measures tissue displacements based on a reference point

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting sectionthat drives an ultrasonic probe to transmit an ultrasonic wave toward a measuring region of a subject including an arterial vascular wall; a receiving sectionthat receives a reflected wave, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject, at the ultrasonic probe to generate a received signal; a movement information deriving sectionfor deriving information about at least the axial movement of the arterial vascular wall based on the received signal; and a boundary locating sectionfor locating at least one of the blood flow-intima boundary, the media-adventitia boundary and the adventitia-body's connective tissue boundary of the arterial vascular wall in the measuring region based on the movement information.

Ultrasonograph

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a transmitting section that generates a drive signal to drive a probe in order to transmit an ultrasonic wave toward a subject to be deformed periodically under stress. A receiving section receives an echo, produced when the ultrasonic wave is reflected from the subject, at the probe to generate a received echo signal. A computing section determines a thickness change waveform, representing a variation in distance between two arbitrary measuring points on the subject, based on the received echo signal. A reference waveform generating section outputs a reference waveform. The apparatus obtains a subject's internal information by comparing the thickness change waveform and the reference waveform to each other.

Ultrasonograph that determines tissue properties utilizing a reference waveform

An object of the invention is to provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that can conduct elastic modulus measurement with high accuracy without enlarging the circuit scale. A calculatoruses a signal from a receiver-transmitterto calculate the motion velocity or the move displacement of body tissue and the strain variation of the body tissue. A frequency analyzerconducts frequency analysis of the motion velocity and the move displacement of the body tissue found in the calculator. A strain induced by stress and elastic wave separatorseparates a frequency component with strain of an arterial wall caused by blood pressure change caused by pulsation of the heart, a frequency component of vibration caused by flow of blood into the lumen of artery, and a frequency component of noise based on the determination result of the frequency analyzer. An elastic modulus calculatorcalculates the elastic modulus of the body tissue based on the calculation result of the motion of the body tissue obtained in the calculator, etc.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

In a method for identifying a living tissue in an ultrasonic diagnosis, the elasticity of a living tissue to be diagnosed is measured for each local small area by using ultrasound. Elasticity data for each kind of known living tissue is composed of an elasticity modulus frequency histogram in each local small area for each kind of living tissue and is managed in a data library. Regarding the elasticity data serving as the measurement results, the kind of living tissue to be diagnosed is identified by using the elastic data for each kind of known living tissue.

Ultrasonic method and system for characterizing arterial tissue using known elasticity data

An ultrasonic diagnostic system prepares a diagnostic data including image by transmitting ultrasonic pulses to a living tissue, and receiving and analyzing reflected wave of the ultrasonic pulses, and has an analytical processing unit to measure a backscattering intensity by using a scattering wave from a region of interest in the living tissue on a basis of the reflected wave which is received, and to detect a variation frequency of the measured backscattering intensity to obtain the diagnostic data to be available.

Ultrasonographic system and ultrasonography

The present invention provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe ( ) for transmitting ultrasonic pulses into a living body and receiving ultrasonic reflected waves from the living body, a phase-detecting section ( ) for detecting each phase of the ultrasonic reflected waves, and a phase-difference detecting section ( ) for determining a phase difference in the repetition period of the ultrasonic transmitting/receiving operation according to the detected phase signals. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus further includes a data analyzing section ( ) for calculating the movement velocity of the living body tissue and the blood flow velocity according to the phase difference of the ultrasonic reflected waves and tracking the movements of the living body tissue and the blood according to the movement values calculated by the velocities, and a display section ( ) for displaying the tracked results and the movement value and velocity waveform of the living body tissue and the blood simultaneously through a display control section ( ).

An audio gateway is provided for receiving an internet relay request and a number called in a call from a telephone via the internet. An audio data gateway is selected using the number called, and relay operations are performed with the selected destination audio data gateway. The relay audio data is multiplexed for streams based on multiple relay requests having the same relay destination so that the relay audio data in these streams are multiplexed into a single relay stream.

Data gateway and method for relaying data

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a transmitting device having an ultrasound probe. The transmitting device operates for transmitting a ultrasound pulse beam from the ultrasound probe into a body. A receiving device includes the ultrasound probe. The receiving device operates for receiving an ultrasound echo beam caused in the body, and converting the received ultrasound echo beam into a corresponding electric echo signal via the ultrasound probe. A delay controlling device is operative for controlling an acoustic line direction of transmission and reception of the ultrasound pulse beam and the ultrasound echo beam. A phase detection device is operative for subjecting the electric echo signal to phase detection to generate a phase-detection result signal. A tissue velocity calculating device operates for calculating a velocity of a tissue in the body from the phase-detection result signal. A display device is operative for indicating the calculated velocity of the tissue. The delay controlling device is operative for changing the acoustic line direction of transmission and reception of the ultrasound pulse beam and the ultrasound echo beam with respect to a same object.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

Data communication is achieved between different LAN segments without passing the data through a router. A cell segmentation selector selects either LAN emulation or native-mode ATM for a packet made at an upper level protocol higher than a network layer. A LAN emulator makes an ATM cell from the MAC frame after the packet is made with a MAC frame. The native-mode ATM unit directly makes the ATM cell from the packet. Either the LAN emulation or the native-mode ATM is selected for operation by the cell segmentation selector. Then, the ATM cell is made by the LAN emulator or the native-mode ATM unit with reference to the selection and then the data communication is carried out using the produced ATM cell.

Virtual network system

This invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic equipment usable to measure small vibrations in myocardial tissues superimposed on a large amplitude vibration of heartbeat. And it comprises a large amplitude motion analyzing means for deciding the an instantaneous position of the object by using the amplitude and phase of the detected signal and tracking a large amplitude of motion of the object, and a small vibration analyzing means for detecting a small vibration superimposed on the large amplitude motion by analyzing, succeeding positions of the large amplitude motion obtained from the large amplitude motion analyzing means. By using this invention, a local elasticity of width of 1-2 mm in myocardium and arterial wall can be evaluated noninvasively.

Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment

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Miyagi, Japan

Hiroshi Kanai