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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. 30, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2003
Applicants:
Godwin Liu, Burlington, CA;
Chris Aleksandr White, Toronto, CA;
Randy Hendriks, Toronto, CA;
Stuart Foster, Toronto, CA;
Tom Little, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Godwin Liu, Burlington, CA;
Chris Aleksandr White, Toronto, CA;
Randy Hendriks, Toronto, CA;
Stuart Foster, Toronto, CA;
Tom Little, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
VisualSonics Inc., Toronto, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for developing an ultrasound image, comprises a scan head having a transducer capable of generating ultrasound energy at a frequency of at least 20 megahertz (MHz), and a processor for receiving ultrasound energy and for generating an ultrasound image at an effective frame rate of at least 200 frames per second (fps) using scan line based image reconstruction.