Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-04
2011-12-13
Le, Long V. (Department: 3768)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
C600S444000, C600S459000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08075487
ABSTRACT:
An ultrasound diagnosis system including a motor driving multi-plane ultrasound probe for acquiring image data at a voluntary scanning plane in a body of a patient is provided. The data acquisition is performed by driving rotation of a plurality of transducers arranged in a head portion of the probe toward a target angle of a prescribed rotation range by driving an arranged surface of the plurality transducers so as to make a plurality of scanning planes toward a first direction in a normal mode. The driving direction of the head portion is automatically reversed by 180 degrees to a second direction opposite to the first direction at a high speed in a reverse mode when the rotation angle of the head portion arrives at the target angle. The reversed head portion can continue to acquire image data at the same scanning planes to the previous scanning planes of the rotation drive to the first direction.
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Kosaku Hideki
Shikata Hiroyuki
Takeuchi Takashi
Hoffa Angela M
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Le Long V.
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
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