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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
May. 29, 2014
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Hitoshi Yamagata, Otawara, JP;
Makoto Hirama, Otawara, JP;
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound medical device and an ultrasound diagnostic imaging device are provided that allow orally-fed fluid food, etc. to pass through the esophagus of the subject. The ultrasound medical device includes a capsule-type main body configured to incorporate ultrasound transducers, so that the ultrasound transducers in the capsule-type main body, which has been inserted in a tubular body part of a subject, send ultrasound waves to the subject's interiors and receive reflected waves. The ultrasound medical device further includes a support configured to be incorporated in the capsule-type main body and to have a form of tube with a through-hole axially passing through the tube. The ultrasound transducers are arranged external to the tube.