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US 2015/0032000 A1Published application
Ultrasound diagnostic method and apparatus using shear waves
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun-ho PARK, Ki-wan CHOI, Hyoung-ki LEE
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Abstract
An ultrasound diagnostic method and apparatus determines a transmission condition for generating shear waves at two or more positions of an object, for each of a plurality of elements of a transducer, and generates an ultrasound signal transmitted to the object through a full aperture of the transducer, according to the transmission condition.
Claims26
An ultrasound diagnostic method using shear waves, the ultrasound diagnostic method comprising:
- determining a transmission condition for a plurality of elements of a transducer for generating shear waves at two or more positions of an object;
- and
- generating an ultrasound signal transmitted to the object through a full aperture of the transducer, according to the transmission condition.
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to diagnose an object by using shear waves, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprising:
- a transmission condition calculator to determine a transmission condition for a plurality of elements of a transducer, to generate shear waves at two or more positions of an object;
- and
- a pulse generator to generate an ultrasound signal transmitted to the object through a full aperture of the transducer, according to the transmission condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.