Shockwave treatment apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsKoji Saito, Nobuki Kudo
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Abstract
A shock wave treatment apparatus, in which a shock wave generator generates a shock wave toward a living body having an object to be disintegrated by the shock wave, and an ultrasonic wave probe transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the living body and receives an ultrasonic wave echo from the living body, in which a B-mode processor forms a B-mode section image from the ultrasonic wave echo, and a color flow mapping processor forms a color flow mapping image from the ultrasonic wave echo, and in which the B-mode section image and the color flow mapping image are displayed on a display. A processor for obtaining doppler information from the ultrasonic wave echo to reproduce doppler sounds from the doppler information may be also provided.
Claims12
A shock wave treatment apparatus, comprising:
- means for generating a shock wave and transmitting the shock wave toward a living body having an object to be disintegrated by the shock wave;
- means for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward the living body and for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic wave from the living body:
- means for generating a B-mode section image of the living body on the basis of the received ultrasonic wave echo;
- means for obtaining an ultrasonic wave doppler alteration frequency from the ultrasonic wave echo and for performing a color flow mapping process on the basis of the ultrasonic wave doppler alteration frequency to form a color flow mapping image of the living body;
- means for storing the color flow mapping image in synchronization with the generation and transmission of the shock wave;
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- means for displaying at least one of the B-mode section image and the color flow mapping image.
A shock wave treatment apparatus, comprising:
- means for generating a shock wave and for transmitting the shock wave toward a living body having an object to be disintegrated by the shock wave;
- means for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward the living body and for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic wave reflected from the living body;
- means for generating a B-mode section image of the living body on the basis of the received ultrasonic wave echo;
- means for storing the B-mode section image in synchronization with the generation and transmission of the shock wave;
- means for performing a phase detection of the ultrasonic wave echo to obtain doppler information;
- means for reproducing sound from the doppler information;
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- means for inhibiting a transmission of the doppler information from the means for performing a phase detection to the means for reproducing sound while the shock wave is transmitted toward the living body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.