Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Measurement frequency variable ultrasonic imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 测量变频超声波成像装置
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Application No.: US13945548Application Date: 2013-07-18
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Publication No.: US09326752B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Masamichi Umeda , Kaoru Kitami , Natsuki Sugaya , Masafumi Takada
- Applicant: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Hitachi-shi
- Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hitachi-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2012-160709 20120719
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; A61B8/14

Abstract:
An ultrasonic imaging device includes an ultrasonic probe including a piezoelectric device transmitting ultrasonic waves to a sample and receiving echo waves, an X axis scanner and a Y axis scanner scanning the sample and positions the probe at a scanning position, a frequency controller controlling a frequency of a received signal in accordance with the position of the scanning position, a signal processing unit processing the received signal, and an image generator generating an ultrasonic wave image at the frequency based on an output of the signal processing unit. The frequency controller generates and supplies a burst signal having a predetermined frequency by a burst wave oscillator to the piezoelectric device of the ultrasonic probe to generate the ultrasonic waves having a predetermined frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140024941A1 Measurement Frequency Variable Ultrasonic Imaging Device Public/Granted day:2014-01-23
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