Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1992-03-30
1992-11-24
Smith, Ruth S.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
12866203, A61B 810
Patent
active
051654156
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a completely portable, hand-held digital ultrasonic instrument about the size and shape of an ordinary pen. The housing is contoured such that it can be easily grasped in the manner of a writing pen. An activation button is located on the interior dorsal surface in close approximation to the index fingertip of the user. A liquid crystal display provides a digital readout of a thickness measurement on the barrel of the instrument housing. The instrument incorporates a 10 MHz or 20 MHz solid phase piezoelectric transducer, a microprocessor, a gate array, a hybrid analog circuit, a liquid crystal display, batteries and a removable battery cover. The 20 MHz transducer is used to measure corneal thickness and is attached to a swan neck connector which is attached to the instrument housing. The 10 MHz transducer is used for measuring axial length and it is attached to a truncated conical connector which is also attached to the instrument housing. In addition, a pinjack connector is available to link the unit to other electronic media such as a microcomputer, personal computer, or printer.
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Feldon Steven E.
Wallace David A.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Smith Ruth S.
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