Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 超声波探头和超声波诊断仪
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Application No.: US12093154Application Date: 2006-11-10
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Publication No.: US07872399B2Publication Date: 2011-01-18
- Inventor: Masanao Kondou , Katsunori Asafusa
- Applicant: Masanao Kondou , Katsunori Asafusa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP2005-327364 20051111
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/322467 WO 20061110
- International Announcement: WO2007/055320 WO 20070518
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00

Abstract:
A variance in transmitting/receiving sensitivity between multiple vibrational elements or transducers included in an ultrasonic probe is corrected. An ultrasonic probe in accordance with the present invention has multiple transducers, each of which includes multiple vibrational elements that each transmit or receive ultrasonic waves by converting ultrasonic waves and an electric signal into each other with a bias voltage applied thereto, set in array. The ultrasonic prove includes a transmitting/receiving sensitivity correction means that independently adjusts the bias voltage to be applied to at least two vibrational elements among the multiple vibrational elements so as to correct a variance in transmitting/receiving sensitivity between the at least two vibrational elements.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090251025A1 ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-10-08
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