US5211167A
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Ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus
Assignee: Olympus Corp
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Filing: 1992-02-21
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Granted: 1993-05-18
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Expires: 2012-02-21
Abstract
Abstract An ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus for displaying an ultrasonic image of an organ of a patient including an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a cavity wall of the patient and receiving an ultrasonic wave reflected by the cavity wall to produce an echo signal. A plurality of organ marks denoting a plurality of organs and a plurality of posture marks representing postures of the patient on a bed are previously stored in a memory. Any desired organ mark and posture mark are selectively read out of the memory and the thus selected organ mark and posture mark are displayed on a display screen of a monitor together with the ultrasonic image as a composite image. In superimposition on the organ mark there is further displayed an ultrasonic wave transmitting point indicating mark. By monitoring the composite image displayed on the monitor screen, it is possible to know a part of the organ whose ultrasonic image is displayed as well as a point and a direction from and in which the ultrasonic wave is transmitted. Therefore, the diagnosis can be performed very easily and accurately.
Inventors
- 👤 Takeshi Amenomori
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 05:22
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01S; G01S7/00; G01S7/52; G01S7/52017; G01S7/52053; G01S7/52057; G01S7/52073; A; A61; A61B; A61B8/00; A61B8/12; A61B8/46; A61B8/461; A61B8/463; A61B8/467; G01S7/52079; G01S7/52084
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
201 words
An ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe which is insertable into a cavity of a patient for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a cavity wall and receiving an ultrasonic wave reflected by the cavity wall to generate an echo signal; an image signal processing circuit connected to said ultrasonic probe for receiving said echo signal and processing the echo signal to produce an ultrasonic image signal; a memory means for storing a plurality of posture marks which represent postures of the patient on a bed and a plurality of organ marks which represent organs of the patient; a selecting means for selecting a desired posture mark among said plurality of posture marks and a desired organ mark among said plurality of organ marks to produce a posture mark signal and an organ mark signal; an image processing means for mixing said posture mark signal representing said desire posture mark and said organ mark signal representing said desired organ mark with the ultrasonic image signal generated by said image signal processing means to produce a composite image signal; and a displaying means for receiving said composite image signal to display a composite image of ultrasonic image, posture mark and organ mark.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
201 words
An ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe which is insertable into a cavity of a patient for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a cavity wall and receiving an ultrasonic wave reflected by the cavity wall to generate an echo signal; an image signal processing circuit connected to said ultrasonic probe for receiving said echo signal and processing the echo signal to produce an ultrasonic image signal; a memory means for storing a plurality of posture marks which represent postures of the patient on a bed and a plurality of organ marks which represent organs of the patient; a selecting means for selecting a desired posture mark among said plurality of posture marks and a desired organ mark among said plurality of organ marks to produce a posture mark signal and an organ mark signal; an image processing means for mixing said posture mark signal representing said desire posture mark and said organ mark signal representing said desired organ mark with the ultrasonic image signal generated by said image signal processing means to produce a composite image signal; and a displaying means for receiving said composite image signal to display a composite image of ultrasonic image, posture mark and organ mark.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
59 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said mark selecting means comprises a means for displaying a plurality of organ mark signals stored in said memory means, a means for selecting one of the thus displayed organ marks, a means for displaying said plurality of posture marks, and a means for selecting one of the thus displayed posture marks.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
33 words
An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said memory means is constructed to store a plurality of organ marks belonging to each of a plurality of organs depending upon the sex and race.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
39 words
An apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a means for displaying an ultrasonic wave transmitting point indicating mark for indicating a point at which the ultrasonic wave is transmitted in superimposition with the selected and displayed organ mark.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
44 words
An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said means for displaying the ultrasonic wave transmitting point indicating mark comprises a means for displaying a point indication mark, means for parallelly moving the point indication mark and a means for rotating the point indication mark.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
84 words
An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said means for displaying the ultrasonic wave transmitting point indicating mark comprises a distal end position sensor for detecting an operation of an angle knob for moving a distal end of the ultrasonic probe as well as a length of the ultrasonic probe which is inserted into the cavity of the patient and a means for responding to an output signal of said distal end position sensor to generate an ultrasonic wave transmitting point indicating mark signal.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
87 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said ultrasonic probe is provided to be detachably coupled with a main body of the apparatus and has an organ indicating means for denoting an organ specific to a relevant ultrasonic probe, and said organ mark selecting means comprises a means for detecting said organ denoted by said organ indicating means and a means for automatically selecting an organ mark on the basis of an output signal of said means for detecting the organ denoted by said organ indicating means.
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