Title:
APPARATUS FOR IMAGING ANOMALOUS ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/108855
Kind Code:
A2
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for imaging anomalous ultrasound propagation. The apparatus for imaging anomalous ultrasound propagation according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a laser irradiation unit for irradiating a pulse laser beam onto an object to be examined; a beam expander for adjusting the focus of the pulse laser beam; a 2-axis laser mirror scanner for allowing the pulse laser beam to be irradiated along the scanning path of the object; a sensor for detecting an ultrasound that is generated in the object onto which the pulse laser beam is irradiated; an imaging controller for generating a 3D ultrasound structure by removing a normal ultrasound from the ultrasound detected by the sensor, and then splitting the time axis of the 3D ultrasound structure to generate an anomalous ultrasound propagation image; and an output unit for outputting the anomalous ultrasound propagation image. Accordingly, it is possible to perform quantization and measurement of the size of an injury in a complicated structure that is hard to analyze through a plain ultrasound image.
Inventors:
LEE, Jung Ryul (102-dong 1403-ho, Joong-angHeights Geumam-dong,,Deokjin-gu,Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do 561-180, 561-180, KR)
Application Number:
KR2011/001453
Publication Date:
September 09, 2011
Filing Date:
March 03, 2011
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Assignee:
INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION FOUNDATION CHONBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (664-14, Deokjin-dong 1ga,Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeonbuk 561-756, 561-756, KR)
전북대학교산학협력단 (전북 전주시 덕진구 덕진동 1가 664-14, 561-756 Jeonbuk, 561-756, KR)
전북대학교산학협력단 (전북 전주시 덕진구 덕진동 1가 664-14, 561-756 Jeonbuk, 561-756, KR)
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
NAM, Choong Woo et al. (3F Kyungbin Building, 517-18 Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-854, 135-854, KR)
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