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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1976
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
George Kossoff, Northbridge, AU;
Assignee:
The Commonwealth of Australia, Phillip, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 6785 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for the pulse-echo ultrasonic examination, particularly in medical diagnostic examination, is comprised of a plurality of transducers spaced around the object to be examined, each of the transducers being steerable to direct pulses of ultrasonic energy into the object and to receive echoes in a plurality of angular directions, and means to move the plurality of transducers relative to the object during examination of the object.