The present disclosure describes ultrasound systems and methods configured to interrogate the stiffness and/or elasticity of a target tissue via shear wave imaging Systems may be configured to stroboscopically transmit a plurality of push pulses into the target tissue at different focal depths. The quickly transmitted push pulses may generate shear waves that constructively interfere to form a composite shear wave. Example systems may include a beamformer configured to transmit push pulse parameters to a transducer array while receiving new push pulse parameters from a controller. Dual transmission and receipt of different push pulse parameters reconfigures the beamformer without interrupting push pulse transmission, thereby minimizing the delay between successive push pulses. Push pulses transmitted according to the disclosed methods may generate a composite shear wave configured to interrogate tissue with enhanced sensitivity across a broad depth.

The present technology relates to a display device, a display method, and an ultrasonic diagnostic system capable of providing a realistic ultrasonic diagnostic result. An image corresponding to an image signal obtained from an output signal of an ultrasonic diagnostic device is displayed on a display panel. Moreover, the display panel is vibrated according to a sound vibration signal obtained from the output signal by an actuator disposed on a back surface side of the display panel, whereby sound that is audibly sensed and vibration that is tactilely sensed are output on the display panel. The present technology can be applied to, for example, the ultrasonic diagnostic system or the like that performs inspection using ultrasonic waves.

The present invention relates to a method and system for determining a central pulse wave velocity in a pregnant woman. The method comprises receiving an indication of a measurement of a length of a human aortic path outside the body to provide an aortic length, arranging a sound transducer at the position of the anatomical projection of the uterine artery, identifying the opening of the maternal aortic valve with measurement from the sound transducer as a first time, and the pulse wave arrival time at the uterine artery with measurements from the sound transducer as a second time, determining the central transit time based on the difference between the second time and the first time, and calculating the central pulse wave velocity based on the aortic length and the central transit time.

Provided is an ultrasound apparatus including: a transmitter configured to generate and output a transmission signal; an ultrasound probe configured to convert the transmission signal output from the transmitter into an ultrasound signal and transmit the ultrasound signal to a target object, and receive an echo signal reflected from the target object and output a reception signal on the basis of the echo-signal; a transmission/reception switch configured to attenuate the transmission signal output from the transmitter and output the attenuated transmission signal, and output the reception signal output from the ultrasound probe; and a receiver configured to receive the attenuated and output transmission signal and the output reception signal, and detect transmission waveform information on the basis of the attenuated transmission signal.

Provided is a patient monitor and an ultrasonic wave information display method that provide a screen by which a relationship between a depth and a motion in a body of a subject can be easily grasped. An input and output interface acquires a reflected wave indicating a motion generated at each depth by an ultrasonic wave irradiated at a plurality of depths in the body. A control unit displays, on a display unit in terms of at least one of the following expressions, a change over time in an index value of the motion at each depth of the subject calculated from the reflected wave. A plurality of waveforms corresponding to each depth; and map information in which a relationship between the depth and magnitude of the index value is mapped to at least one of a color and a pattern.

Disclosed are an ultrasound device and method for acquiring physiological parameter(s) thereby. The method comprises: acquiring ultrasonic data of a target object, the ultrasonic data including at least an ultrasound image; performing image recognition on the ultrasound image to acquire an image recognition result; acquiring physiological parameter(s) corresponding to the image recognition result from a bedside device, the physiological parameter(s) being acquired by detecting the target object by the bedside device; and displaying the acquired physiological parameter(s) and the ultrasound image. By means of the ultrasound device and the method for acquiring physiological parameter(s) thereby according to the present disclosure, relevant physiological parameter(s) can be automatically obtained from the bedside device and displayed by the ultrasound device; and in this way, the relevant physiological parameter(s) can be quickly provided to the doctor, reducing the doctor's operations and effectively improving the efficiency of the doctor's diagnosis.

A medical system that includes a temperature scanning device configured to identify and locate blood vessels by obtaining a thermal image from a skin surface where blood flowing within blood vessels beneath the skin surface has been altered to define temperature variations of the skin. The system includes a console configured to communicate with the temperature scanning device, the console including processors and logic that, when executed by the processors, causes operations including defining the thermal image. The system may further include a camera, and/or an ultrasound probe. The thermal image may be portrayed on various forms of a display include augmented reality glasses. The thermal image may be overlayed onto a camera image and/or an ultrasound image.

In an ultrasound imaging system which produces synthetically transmit focused images, the multiline signals used to form image scanlines are analyzed for speed of sound variation, and a map 60 of this variation is generated. In a preferred implementation, the phase discrepancy of the received multilines caused by speed of sound variation in the medium is estimated in the angular spectrum domain for the receive angular spectrum. Once the phase is estimated for all locations in an image, the differential phase between two points at the same lateral location, but different depth, is computed. This differential phase is proportional to the local speed of sound between the two points. A color-coded two- or three-dimensional map 60 is produced from these speed of sound estimates and presented to the user.

An ultrasound probe is guided to an optimal position on a patient's body by illuminating the patient's body with a laser, by displaying icons of the probe position and the optimal position on a 3-D model of the patient's body, or by playing an audio signal that varies according to distance of the probe position from the optimal position. In certain embodiments, the probe is guided to a series of optimal positions for conducting a vascular exam, responsive to a database of human anatomy and vasculature and responsive to a database of vascular exam procedures.

The invention proposes a method for generating ultrasonic panoramic image and an ultrasonic device. The invention first analyzes the degree of overlap area between two black-and-white images and determines the Doppler signal error of two corresponding color images once the overlap area is large enough. A plurality of black-and-white characteristic images and color characteristic images are then determined from the captured black-and-white images and color images and used for generating a black-and-white panoramic image and a color panoramic image respectively using an image stitching algorithm. The color panoramic image is then overlaid with the black-and-white panoramic image to form an output panoramic image.