A61B 8/587
Calibration phantoms
Official title: {Calibration phantoms}
A61B8/587 (Calibration phantoms) appears on 283 US grants and 365 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 283
- Published applications
- 365
- Assignees
- 199
- Inventors
- 740
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 17 | 22 |
| 2026 | 12 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Ultrasound attenuation coefficient estimation using aberration compensation and reference phantoms15 Sep 2026US 12,733,913 B2Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments Co., Ltd.
- Methods and systems for testing acoustic transducers, and acoustic transducer adapters for the systems18 Aug 2026US 12,710,523 B2Lenard Enterprises Inc.
- Ultrasound-derived proxy for physical quantity16 Jun 2026US 12,653,507 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Ultrasound beam quality test apparatus and methods16 Jun 2026US 12,659,197 B2Aronix LLC
- Method and device for generating an uncertainty map for guided percutaneous procedures12 May 2026US 12,622,755 B2Instituto Politécnico do Cávado E do Ave
- Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, operation method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and operation program of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306052 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232285 A1Cleerly, Inc.
- Systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224181 A1Cleerly, Inc.
- Systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207154 A1Cleerly, Inc.
- Medical phantom comprising an echogenic and radiopaque bone-mimicking product18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165681 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ultrasound beam alignment servo310US 5,844,140 A1998
- Equipment and method for calibration and quality assurance of an ultrasonic bone anaylsis apparatus280US 5,755,228 AHologic, Inc. · 1998
- Apparatus and method for interactive 3D registration of ultrasound and magnetic resonance images based on a magnetic position sensor277US 6,775,404 B1University of Washington · 2004
- Guide and position monitor for invasive medical instrument273US 6,695,786 B2U-Systems, Inc. · 2004
- System and method for location-merging of real-time tomographic slice images with human vision211US 6,599,247 B1University of Pittsburgh · 2003