Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Microbubble generating technique for phase aberration correction
- Patent Title (中): 用于相位校正的微泡生成技术
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Application No.: US11908199Application Date: 2006-03-02
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Publication No.: US09022939B2Publication Date: 2015-05-05
- Inventor: Christopher Hall , Shunmugavelu Sokka , David Louis Marie Savery , Chien-Ting Chin
- Applicant: Christopher Hall , Shunmugavelu Sokka , David Louis Marie Savery , Chien-Ting Chin
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2006/050656 WO 20060302
- International Announcement: WO2006/095288 WO 20060914
- Main IPC: A61B8/14
- IPC: A61B8/14 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B8/00

Abstract:
Method and system for ultrasound imaging of body tissue in which a focused ultrasound (FUS) transducer (20) is oriented relative to the body such that ultrasonic waves generated by the FUS transducer (20) are directed toward the tissue being imaged. The FUS transducer (20) is operated to cause the formation of microbubbles (28) in the tissue and an ultrasound image of the tissue with the microbubbles (28) is acquired. Phase aberration in the acquired ultrasound image may be corrected, if necessary, using each microbubble (28) as a point source or point-like scatterer. Microbubble (28) formation can therefore be obtained in a non-invasive manner since FUS-induced microbubble (28) formation does not require the insertion of interventional tools into the body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080208059A1 Microbubble Generating Technique For Phase Aberration Correction Public/Granted day:2008-08-28
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