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- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for automatically measuring the volume of urine in a bladder using ultrasound signals
- Patent Title (中): 使用超声信号自动测量膀胱尿液体积的装置和方法
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Application No.: US12878422Application Date: 2010-09-09
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Publication No.: US08652047B2Publication Date: 2014-02-18
- Inventor: Jung-Hoe Kim , Seung-Tai Kim
- Applicant: Jung-Hoe Kim , Seung-Tai Kim
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Mcube Technology Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Mcube Technology Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: KR10-2006-0002257 20060109
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00

Abstract:
The method of accurately measuring the volume of urine in a bladder includes generating a plurality of ultrasound scan planes using the received ultrasound signals; detecting distances between the front and back walls of the bladder for each scan line in the ultrasound scan planes; determining an area of the bladder using the detected distances of the scan lines for each ultrasound scan plane; generating a virtual radius of the bladder using the determined area of the bladder for each ultrasound scan plane; determining a calibration coefficient for each ultrasound scan plane using the detected distances of the scan lines; calibrating the virtual radius of the bladder for each ultrasound scan plane using the calibration coefficient; determining the volume of urine in the bladder by calculating the volume of a sphere of which the radius is the average of the calibrated virtual radii for the ultrasound scan planes.
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