INTUITIVE ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD THEREOF

Patent №

US 7,699,776

Granted

2010-04-20

Filed 2004

Owner

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

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Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10506722

A hand held ultrasonic instrument (10) is provided in a portable unit that performs C-Mode imaging and collects 3D image data. In a preferred embodiment a transducer array (60), display unit (20), beamformer (40), power system, and image processor are integrated in one enclosure weighing less than three pounds. In operation, the portable unit is scanned across a target and the displayed image is conveniently presented to the operator whereby the displayed image corresponds exactly to the target, or a scaled fashion if desired.

VisionA61B 8/5215A61B 5/415A61B 5/418A61B 8/06A61B 8/0833A61B 8/0841A61B 8/13A61B 8/14+18 more

AI classification

Vision0.90
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

assignment · 176480722

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION

assignment · 176480737

Assignors

WALKER, WILLIAM F., HOSSACK, JOHN A., BLALOCK, TRAVIS N.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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