Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

University of Pennsylvania

Jae Moon Jo

Jechang Jeong

Gil-Ju Jin

Hyun Wook Park

Je-Chang Jeong

Mi Jeoung Ahn

Jongho Lee

Jin Young Hwang

Hyun Phill Ko

Sung Ki Kim

Joon Soo Kim

Cheul-hee Hahm

Kyeong Gu Woo

Chul An Kim

Ye Ji Han

Min Ju Lee

Yuri Kim

Hyeon Seok Seo

Yang Lim Choi

Min Jung Song

Chang Yeon Won

Sangwon Bang

Kyung Hun Song

Yeon-Ho Kim

Jeong Mln Na

Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic imaging apparatus including: a main body; a probe; a display unit connected to the main body in such a manner to be movable with respect to the main body; and a moving unit configured to connect the display unit to the main body, and to enable the display unit to move with respect to the main body, wherein the moving unit includes: a first coupling member rotatably attached on a part of the main body; a rotating arm coupled with the first coupling member and configured to rotate with respect to the first coupling member; and a moving member having one end coupled with the display unit, and installed in the rotating arm to enable the display unit to move in a longitudinal direction of the rotating arm.

Ultrasonic imaging device and moving unit applied to the same

Provided are an ultrasound imaging apparatus and a method of controlling the same, and more specifically, to a technique for displaying a gain compensation regulating unit including a time gain compensation (TGC) regulating unit or a lateral gain compensation (LGC) regulating unit corresponding to the set ROI when a region of interest (ROI) in an ultrasound image is set. The ultrasound imaging apparatus according to the embodiment includes an input unit configured to receive a command of setting a region of interest (ROI) in an ultrasound image; and a display unit including a first region on which the ultrasound image is displayed and a second region on which a gain compensation regulating unit configured to change a gain compensation value of the ultrasound image is displayed, wherein, when the command of setting the ROI in the ultrasound image displayed on the first region is input, the display unit displays only a gain compensation regulating unit corresponding to the input ROI in the ultrasound image on the second region.

Ultrasound imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same

Provided are an ultrasonic probe and a method of manufacturing the same. The ultrasonic probe includes: a matching layer; a piezoelectric layer that is disposed on a bottom surface of the matching layer and generates ultrasonic waves; and a backing layer that is disposed on a bottom surface of the piezoelectric layer and includes plate-shaped carbon allotropes and a backing material provided between the plate-shaped carbon allotropes.

Ultrasonic probe and method of manufacturing the same

Disclosed herein is an ultrasound imaging apparatus for dividing obtained ultrasound image information into pieces of image information in units of regions of a human body, mapping a body marker to the pieces of image information corresponding to the body marker, and outputting a result of mapping the body marker to the pieces of image information; and a method of controlling the same. The ultrasound imaging apparatus includes an image processor configured to obtain image information from an object, a controller configured to divide the obtained image information into pieces of image information in units of regions of a human body and map a body marker to the pieces of image information corresponding to the body marker, and a user interface unit configured to output a result of mapping the body marker to the pieces of image information.

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a diffusion-weighted image acquiring method form a radial k-space through a radial sampling and acquire a diffusion-weighted image from the radial k-space, with the diffusion-weighted image acquiring including receiving an echo signal generated from the subject, and forming a k-space having a plurality of sampling lines by sampling the echo signal that is received, wherein the directions of the diffusion gradient magnetic fields applied at the time of forming the sampling lines that compose the k-space to cross each other at two adjacent sampling lines.

Resonance imaging apparatus and diffusion weighted image acquiring method thereof

An MRI apparatus performs an MRI while moving a patient table and includes a main magnet configured to generate a static magnetic field in a bore; a gradient coil assembly configured to apply a gradient signal to the static magnetic field to generate a magnetic field gradient; an RF coil assembly configured to apply an RF excitation signal and an RF refocusing signal; and a controller configured to control the RF refocusing signal so that a slice to which the RF refocusing signal is to be applied conforms to the slice to which the RF excitation signal has been applied.

Magnetic resonance imaging device and control method thereof

The present disclosure provides a transducer support, ultrasound probe, and ultrasound imaging apparatus. The ultrasound transducer support includes a first layer having first areas in which heat transfer materials are arranged and second areas in which sound absorbent materials are arranged, the first and second areas being arranged alternately; and a second layer having third areas located below the first areas in which sound absorbent materials are arranged and fourth areas located below the second areas in which heat transfer materials are arranged.

Transducer support, ultrasound probe, and ultrasound imaging apparatus

An MRI system acquires a susceptibility-weighted image by acquiring a first RF echo signal in a first echo time for providing an image exclusive of susceptibility-weighting and acquiring a second RF echo signal in a second echo time longer than the first echo time for providing an image including susceptibility-weighting. A compensation gradient field is applied for compensating for field inhomogeneity and in response, a third RF echo signal is acquired in a third echo time longer than the second echo time. First, second and third images are generated in response to data derived from the first, second and third RF echo signals respectively and data of the first, second and third images is combined to provide image data representing an image compensating for magnetic resonance signal attenuation in the second image.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and susceptibility-weighted imaging method using the same

A battery pack includes a case, at least one receptacle defined in the case and configured to accommodate at least one battery that supplies power to a portable ultrasonic scanning apparatus, at least one first terminal installed to the at least one receptacle, the first terminal coming into contact with a terminal of the battery when the battery is accommodated in the at least one receptacle, and a second terminal electrically connected to the at least one first terminal, the second terminal being electrically connected to the portable ultrasonic scanning apparatus.

Sub-battery pack, battery pack having the sub-battery pack, portable ultrasonic scanning apparatus using the sub-battery pack and battery pack, and cart carrying the sub-battery pack, battery pack and portable ultrasonic scanning apparatus

An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding tables having different patterns of a regular region and an escape region according to statistical characteristics of the run level data are set. One of the variable-length coding tables is selected according to mode, quantization step size and scanning position, and the orthogonal transform coefficients according to the selected variable-length coding table are variable-length-coded.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Jae Moon Jo