A61B 8/4461
Features of the scanning mechanism
Official title: {Features of the scanning mechanism, e.g. for moving the transducer within the housing of the probe}
A61B8/4461 (Features of the scanning mechanism) appears on 1,282 US grants and 1,462 published applications in this corpus.
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