Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1997-12-09
2000-05-09
Lateef, Marvin M.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600459, A61B 800
Patent
active
060597283
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a linear transducer array having an axis of rotation parallel to the long axis of the array. Accordingly, each transducer element is analogous to the single transducer of the traditional B-scan. All the elements are pulsed in rapid sequence as the entire array is swept mechanically, and a series of B-scan planes, displaced from each other by the transducer element spacing, are created. Display control electronics interpret the multiple planes with the resultant solid volume represented in isometric or perspective views on a CRT. Ultrasonic transducer arrays of 16 or more elements can be fabricated which would cover the entire volume of the eye in a single angular sweep.
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Kang Grant D.
Lateef Marvin M.
Patel Maulin
Storz Instrument Co.
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