Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and device for ultrasound imaging
- Patent Title (中): 超声成像的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13993224Application Date: 2011-11-29
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Publication No.: US09329260B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Olivier Couture , Mickael Tanter , Mathias Fink
- Applicant: Olivier Couture , Mickael Tanter , Mathias Fink
- Applicant Address: FR Paris FR Paris FR Paris
- Assignee: CENTRE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS,INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE),UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT—PARIS 7
- Current Assignee: CENTRE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS,INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE),UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT—PARIS 7
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris FR Paris FR Paris
- Agency: Miller, Matthias & Hull LLP
- Priority: FR1060633 20101216
- International Application: PCT/FR2011/052810 WO 20111129
- International Announcement: WO2012/080614 WO 20120621
- Main IPC: G01S7/52
- IPC: G01S7/52

Abstract:
A method of high-resolution ultrasound imaging, in which transducers are made to emit ultrasound waves in a field of observations containing micro bubbles, by making the micro bubbles burst one by one in tandem with the emissions of ultrasound waves. At each shot j of an ultrasound wave, raw reverberated signals Sj(i,t) picked up by each transducer i are recorded, and then differential signals Vj(i,t) representative of variations between successive raw signals are determined, a parabolic function Pj(x) is fitted to the differential signals corresponding to each shot j, and then a crest Aj(x0,y0) of this function Pj, corresponding to the position of the micro bubble destroyed between shots j−1 and j, is determined.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130301382A1 Method and Device for Ultrasound Imaging Public/Granted day:2013-11-14
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