US 2015/0105658 A1 · ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

Abstract

Disclosed herein are an ultrasonic imaging apparatus for enhancing target therapy, and a control method thereof. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: an inputter configured to receive a command for setting, in a first ultrasound image, a target area of an object to which target therapy is to be applied, the first ultrasound image showing a lesion to which ultrasound contrast agents including therapeutic agents have been bound within the object; and an image processor configured to compare the first ultrasound image to a second ultrasound image acquired after ultrasonic waves have been irradiated to a target part corresponding to the target area, and to detect at least one of an area into which the therapeutic agents have been delivered and an amount of the therapeutic agents delivered into the area.

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Dependent claims

An ultrasonic imaging apparatus comprising:

an inputter configured to receive a command for setting, in a first ultrasound image, a target area of an object to which target therapy is to be applied, the first ultrasound image showing a lesion to which ultrasound contrast agents comprising therapeutic agents have been bound within the object;
and
an image processor configured to compare the first ultrasound image to a second ultrasound image acquired after ultrasonic waves have been irradiated to a target part corresponding to the target area, and to detect at least one of an area into which the therapeutic agents have been delivered and an amount of the therapeutic agents delivered into the area.

An ultrasonic imaging apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display a first ultrasound image showing a lesion to which ultrasound contrast agents comprising therapeutic agents have been bound within an object, and a registered image obtained by registering a predetermined target image with the first ultrasound image;
an inputter configured to receive a command for setting, in the first ultrasound image, a target area to which target therapy is to be applied to the object;
and
an image processor configured to compare the first ultrasound image to a second ultrasound image acquired after ultrasonic waves have been irradiated to a target part corresponding to the target area, and to detect at least one of an area into which the therapeutic agents of the ultrasound contrast agents have been delivered, and an amount of the therapeutic agents delivered into the area.

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Facts

Application

14/515,629Filed 16 Oct 2014

Priority

KR 10-2013-012355816 Oct 2013

Published

16 Apr 2015

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

A61M 37/0092
Other apparatus for introducing media into the body ; Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin: using…
A61B 8/085
Involving detecting or locating foreign bodies or organic structures: for locating body or organic structures, e.g. tumours, calculi, blood…
A61B 8/481
Diagnostic techniques: involving the use of contrast agents, e.g. microbubbles introduced into the bloodstream
A61B 8/5246
For combining image data of patient, e.g. merging several images from different acquisition modes into one image: combining images from the same…

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