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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:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128696 ; 12866007 ; 128710 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for representing slow motion of an oscillating heart by forming strobed images of the heart at a sequence of uniformly spaced times with controllable time interval lengths that are related to, but not identical to, the primary oscillation period T of the heart. The heart images may be formed at a sequence of times t=t.sub.0 +kMT.sub.h /N where t.sub.0 is an initial time, N is a positive integer, k=1,2, . . . , N-1 and M is a positive integer. Alternatively, the heart images may be formed at a sequence of times determined in part by the current oscillation cycle of the heart.