Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1998-07-28
2000-05-16
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600440, A61B 800
Patent
active
060630302
ABSTRACT:
The PC based ultrasound system utilizes a standard PC central processing unit or CPU (an Intel 486 processor or better), standard PC memory storage and retrieval components, a scan conversion board and a video processing board, all disposed and electronically linked to the bus in the computer. Additionally, the analog drive and return scan video signals are sent to and received from a video processing and motor control unit. The video processing and motor control unit is coupled to an ultrasound scan lead or probe. The virtual control user interface for the ultrasound system includes a software driven display obtained from memory. The software driven display reveals images representative of hardware control configurations for many different ultrasound processors. The images provided by the software driven display include: gain control tactile user interfaces, image enhancement control tactile user interfaces, focus control tactile user interface, multiple menu levels for gain control, image enhancement, and focus controls. In a further embodiment, the virtual control user interface is used in conjunction with a touch sensitive user input screen and the virtual control user interface includes a touch screen input command converter responsive to a user's touch on the touch sensitive display monitor to convert the tactile input into software commands. Other features include the ability to recall previously scanned ultrasound images, annotate recently acquired ultrasound images, preferably in color, electronically transfer the images to other peripheral computer equipment, and display a checklist for medical protocol involved in the ultrasound medical techniques. The medical protocol is loaded as pull down or pop up menu available to the user.
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Dhein Robert L.
Glenn William E.
Marcinka John W.
Vara Albert
Adalberto Vara
Imam Ali M
Kamm William E.
Vigil Thomas R.
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