Provided is an ultrasound system including an ultrasound probe and an image display device. The ultrasound probe includes: a transducer array, a transmitting and receiving unit that generates a sound ray signal on the basis of a reception signal from the transducer array; an image information data generation unit that generates image information data from the sound ray signal; and a probe-side wireless communication unit that transmits the image information data to the image display device. The image display device includes: an operating state acquisition unit that acquires an operating state of the image display device; and a display-device-side wireless communication unit that transmits the operating state to the ultrasound probe. The ultrasound probe includes at least one of an ultrasound transmission and reception control unit that controls transmission and reception of the ultrasonic waves on the basis of the operating state of the image display device or an output format setting unit that sets an output format of the image information data on the basis of the operating state of the image display device.

The present disclosure provides an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound imaging apparatus, and a control method thereof that can efficiently and quickly determine whether a disinfectant remains in an ultrasound probe or whether the ultrasound is operating normally without changing the structure of an ultrasound imaging device. The ultrasound imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes: a display provided on the main body; a main body including at least one slot connected to the connector; and a controller configured to output a warning message to the display when the connector and the slot are connected and the current flowing from the ultrasound probe is out of a predetermined reference range, and the controller is composed of at least one processor included in the main body.

The present disclosure describes a medical imaging and/or visualization system and method that provide a user interface enabling a user to visualize (e.g., via a volume rendering) a three dimensional (3D) dataset, manipulate the rendered volume to select a slice plane, and generate a diagnostic image at the selected slice plane, which is enhanced by depth colorized background information. The depth colorization of the background image is produced by blending, preferably based on the depth of structures in the volume, two differently colorized volume renderings, and then fusing the background image with a foreground diagnostic image to produce the enhanced diagnostic image.

An ultrasonic apparatus including a plurality of channels, each includes a transmission channel configured to generate and output a transmission signal based on a synchronization signal; a transducer element configured to convert the transmission signal output from the transmission channel into an ultrasonic signal and output the ultrasonic signal; a transceiver switching circuit configured to attenuate and output the transmission signal output from the transmission channel, and to output a reception signal that returns after the ultrasonic signal is transmitted to an object and is reflected from the object; and a reception channel configured to receive the attenuated output transmission signal and the output reception signal, and to detect transmission waveform information based on the attenuated transmission signal. The ultrasonic apparatus may further include a controller configured to store reference waveform information according to a transmission condition, and to compare the detected transmission waveform information with the reference waveform information.

The invention generally relates to intravascular imaging system and particularly to processing in multimodal systems. The invention provides an imaging system that splits incoming image data into two signals and performs the same processing step on each of the split signals. The system can then send the two signals down two processing pathways. Methods include receiving an analog image signal, transmitting the received signal to a processing system, splitting the signal to produce a first image signal and a second image signal, and performing a processing operation on the first image signal and the second image signal. The first and second signal include substantially the same information as one another.

An ultrasound imaging device, including: a processor (10), N ultrasound systems (20), a communication channel (30) and an ultrasonic probe (40); where N is a positive integer greater than 1; the processor (10) is configured to receive an ultrasound system setting instruction input by a user, so that a ultrasound system (20) of the N ultrasound systems (20) is in an enabled state; the ultrasound system (20) in the enabled state is configured to send a control instruction to the ultrasonic probe (40) via the communication channel (30); and the ultrasonic probe (40) is configured to cooperate with the ultrasound system (20) in the enabled state to operate according to the control instruction.

Ultrasound imaging systems including transducer probes having wireless tags, and associated systems and methods, are described herein. For example, the wireless tags can store supplemental data about the transducer probes, and the ultrasound system can include a base unit configured to wirelessly communicate with nearby ones of the wireless tags to receive the supplemental data. The base unit can be further configured to display the transducer probes that are nearby. In some embodiments, the operator can filter or sort the displayed nearby transducer probes based on the supplemental data to identify a particular one of the nearby transducer devices that has one or more desired attributes.

In an ultrasound diagnostic system, in a case where a routine test in which a plurality of parts of a subject are sequentially subjected to ultrasound diagnosis in accordance with a determined procedure is performed and in a case where information on the subject is input from an input unit, a workstation-side control unit makes a workstation-side display unit perform a second display in which one past image and a current image including an ultrasound image newly created in an ultrasound diagnostic device with respect to a part corresponding to the one past image are displayed side by side on a past image region and a current image region adjacent to each other, in an arrangement order of a plurality of past images in a past routine test of the subject stored in the storage unit.

Disclosed herein are portable ultrasound imaging systems for thumb-dominant operations comprising: a portable ultrasound probe, wherein the portable ultrasound probe is configured to be operable using a first hand of the user; a mobile device comprising a mobile application installed thereon, the mobile application comprising a user interface, the mobile application configured to be operable using a second hand of the user and; and direct electronic communication between the portable ultrasound probe and the mobile device, the direct electronic communication configured to allow a user to control an operation of the portable ultrasound probe for imaging via user interaction with the user interface.

An ultrasound imaging system enhances the display of an ultrasound image by applying a selected style to the content of the ultrasound image. The style may be of anatomic illustrations of a particular anatomical feature such as tissue type or may be the style of a previously obtained ultrasound image that shows tissue well. The style of other imaging modes can also be applied. In some embodiments, a training mode of the ultrasound imaging system implements a style transfer technique to enhance the appearance of captured ultrasound image data.