Ultrasonic scanner and shock wave generator

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1988-09-14

1989-04-18

Jaworski, Francis

Surgery

Truss

Pad

128 24A, 128328, A61B 800

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048217301

ABSTRACT:
A device for spatial location and destruction of concretions in bodily cavities by application of pulsed ultrasonic shock waves generated by a shock wave transducer focussed on the concretion in question, the shock waves being transmitted to the patient by a coupling fluid. This transducer may also be operated under reduced power if appropriate during the locating operation, as an A-scanner, according to the pulse echo mode. A B-section image of the bodily tissue traversed by the ultrasonic field is generated on a monitor by means of at least one B-scanner, so that the concretion present in the section image may be placed in coincidence with a target mark present on the monitor and indicating the position of the transducer focus by a relative displacement between the patient and the device, and the shock wave transducer may thereafter be placed in operation under corresponding high power for destruction of the concretion. A support carrying the B-scanner is displaceable with respect to the symmetry axis of the shock wave transducer during the locating operation, so that it is possible to have a plurality of different section images and thus a high degree of spatial resolution of the section scanned during the locating operation.

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