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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. 24, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kiyoshi Okazaki, Tochigi, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
12866003 ; 128 / ;
Abstract
A shock wave medical treatment apparatus in which the imaging ultrasonic wave probe can be changed among those of different imaging region depths easily. The apparatus includes a shock wave transducer for generating shock waves with a focal point inside a body to be treated, having an aperture at a center; an imaging ultrasonic wave probe for taking images of the body to be treated containing the focal point of the shock wave; and a housing pipe, placed on a line joining the focal point of the shock wave and a center of the aperture of the shock wave transducer, for exchangeably holding the imaging ultrasonic wave probe.