Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-05
2011-11-15
Chen, Tse (Department: 3777)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
C600S437000, C600S447000, C600S453000, C600S454000, C600S455000, C600S456000, C600S457000, C600S458000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08057392
ABSTRACT:
An improved device and method for collecting data used for ultrasonic imaging. The data is gathered over numerous transmit and echo receive cycles, or iterations and combined into a synthetic acquisition representing a complete echo characteristic acquisition. At each iteration, only a portion, or subset, of the echo characteristic is sampled and stored. During the iterations, the portion of the echo characteristic that is measured and sampled is varied by changing the relative sampling instants. That is, the time offset from the transmission to the respective sampling instant is varied. The sample sets representative of the entire echo characteristic are then compiled from the multiple subsets of the ultrasonic transmissions.
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Blalock Travis N.
Hossack John A.
Walker William F.
Chen Tse
McDonnell Boehnen & Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Roy Baisakhi
University of Virgina Patent Foundation
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