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    公开(公告)号:DE69734230T2

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-14

    申请号:DE69734230

    申请日:1997-11-07

    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is provided for measuring the volume of a chamber of the heart or other organ or vessel. An ultrasonic transducer probe is used to scan the chamber with a plurality of spatially distinct scan planes. The pixels of the chamber volume of each scan plane are aggregated to provide a measure of the volume. In a preferred embodiment the chamber volume pixels are developed from Doppler signals from the fluid within the chamber, and are related to voxels within the chamber by weighting pixels in the scan planes in accordance with the voxel sampling afforded by the inter-plane separation.

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    公开(公告)号:AT266967T

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-15

    申请号:AT97301270

    申请日:1997-02-26

    Abstract: A remotely upgradeable medical diagnostic ultrasound system (100) is described which is upgradeable with a new transducer probe (10) by means of air shipment of the upgrade hardware and remote transmission of upgrade data which controls operation of the probe. The ultrasound system includes a data communicator such as a network link (64) or modem (62) for receiving upgrade data from a remote location. A process for upgrading the system is provided whereby a communications link is established over a common carrier communications medium (110,112) between the ultrasound system (100) and a remote terminal, which transmits upgrade program data to the ultrasound system (100). The program data portion of an upgrade is provided via the communications link while the hardware portion of the upgrade is shipped by air freight to the user. In this way, an ultrasound upgrade can be provided to a user from a remote location in a matter of hours.

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