300 results about "Diagnostic equipments" patented technology

A system automatically establishes context information (e.g., determining changes to user interface workflows, screens, menus, and access requirements for devices such as monitors, ventilators, and diagnostic equipment) used by a worker in using healthcare information applications based on patient geographic location (e.g., a room or bed or department). The system addresses the need for a user to sign onto a system with each location change and manually change context information which consumes computer, server and network resources and represent a potential security problem. A healthcare system selects information to be provided to a user in response to received location dependent context data. The system includes a proximity detector for wirelessly detecting presence of an identification tag substantially within a predetermined vicinity of the detector. The identification tag is associated with at least one of, (a) a particular processing device and (b) a particular person. A location detector determines location information indicating a location associated with an identification tag detected by the proximity detector. A workflow processor automatically alters information presented to a user including information associated with a task sequence to be performed by the user for a patient in response to the determined location information.

Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment is equipped with an ultrasonic probe that transmits / receives ultrasound to / from an examined body, a probe position sensor that detects the position and the direction of the ultrasonic probe, an image generator that generates image data based upon the output of the ultrasonic probe, a probe position sensor that detects the position and the direction of a puncture probe inserted into the examined body, a display image generator that generates the data of a display image in which the end position of the puncture probe is fixed to a specific position in an image display area according to the position and the direction of the ultrasonic probe and the position and the direction of the puncture probe based upon the image data and a display for displaying the display image in the image display area.

The invention relates to fluidics as used in medical and diagnostic equipment and relates further to means for purifying, abstracting, filtering, detecting and / or measuring analytes in liquid samples.

A knowledge based diagnostic imaging system, comprising diagnostic equipment for analyzing a patient to obtain a new patient data set containing at least one of MR data, CT data, ultrasound data, x-ray data, SPECT data and PET data. The diagnostic equipment automatically analyzes the new patient data set with respect to a physiologic parameter of the patient to obtain a patient value for said physiologic parameter. A database containing past patient data sets for previously analyzed patients. The past patient data sets contain data indicative of the physiologic parameter with respect to previously analyzed patients. A network interconnects the diagnostic equipment and the database to support access to the past patient data sets.

The invention relates to a catheter for brachytherapy having a radiation source for generating β or γ rays. In order to be able to position the catheter as accurately as possible it is proposed according to the invention that a position indicating means is provided in the area of a free end of the catheter, by means of which position indicating means a position in a three-dimensional coordinate system can be determined on the basis of interactions produced when an external magnetic field is applied.

The present invention relates to a diagnosis apparatus for analyzing arterial pulse waves comprising a database 26 in which is stored data showing the relationship between data representing a pulse wave of a living body and teaching data representing conditions of the living body; and a micro-computer 21 for outputting teaching data corresponding to the pulse wave detected from the living body in the teaching data on the basis of the pulse wave detected from the living body and the stored data inside database 26. As a result, it becomes possible to perform diagnoses equivalent to a skilled doctor.

The present invention provides a miniaturized integrated nucleic acid diagnostic device and system. The device of the invention is generally capable of performing one or more sample acquisition and preparation operations, in combination with one or more sample analysis operations. For example, the device can integrate several or all of the operations involved in sample acquisition and storage, sample preparation and sample analysis, within a single integrated unit. The device is useful in a variety of applications, and most notably, nucleic acid based diagnostic applications and de novo sequencing applications.

The invention discloses a method and spectral-imaging device for optochemical sensing with plasmon-modified multiband fluorescence polarization and with plasmon-modified polarization phase shift changes of a light beam reflected and / or passed through a total internal reflection conducting structure. The optochemical sensing is performed for molecules placed nearby the conducting structure and being excited by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) to lower excited state (LES) and / or to higher excited states (HES). The invention also describes the spectral imaging device with an improved sensitivity of several orders of magnitude. The disclosed method and imaging device may find applications in clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical screening, biomedical research, biochemical-warfare detection and other diagnostic techniques. The device can be used in bio-chip and micro-array technologies, flowcytometer, fiber optic and other types of diagnostic devices.

A probe which is adapted to repeatedly transmit and receive signals during radial scanning within a body cavity to acquire reflected signals and transmit the reflected signals to an image diagnostic apparatus which, on a basis of the reflected signals, forms and outputs a tomographic image of the body cavity and biotissue surrounding the body cavity includes a hollow shaft for transmitting rotational drive force to perform the radial scanning, and a transmission line extending along the shaft to transmit the reflected signals to the image diagnostic apparatus. The shaft receives the rotational drive force via a torque limiter which possesses a thickness which is non-uniform in a circumferential direction at a part of the torque limiter along a length of the torque limiter.

The invention relates to fluidics as used in medical and diagnostic equipment and relates further to means for purifying, abstracting, filtering, detecting and / or measuring analytes in liquid samples.

A diatrophic, bio-physiological interface is self-contained with onboard intensification, filtering, and signal processing and is wirelessly enabled (idio-electrode), with multiple sensory system for bio-physiological measurements, described herein utilizes spatially resolved potential profiles from a cluster of mini electrodes to form constituent sets comprising mini sensorial electrodes. The sets of sub electrodes containing the clusters are jointly optimized to attain measurable gradient of some diagnostic value. The present invention provides a distinct lead-free single electrode that is rotationally invariant with onboard Digital Signal Processor for arrhythmia detection, source encoding, and passive and active wireless transmission. Additionally, in one aspect of the present invention the lead-free idio-electrode bio-physiological adapter allows for utmost clinical operational freedom and dramatically obviates the needs for leads of any length that invariably encumber the acquisition and performance of electrocardiogram recordings of any sort.

The present invention relates to systems for providing a patient with at least one aesthetic improvement procedure. The systems include skin diagnostic equipment, a computer and a database including case studies and esthetic improvement procedures. The database is consulted to assist in providing the patient with at least one aesthetic improvement procedure and the database is updated as new data is generated. The database may be part of an expert system. The database may also be updated with new aesthetic improvement procedures.

The ultrasound probe transmits and receives ultrasonic waves in different directions and the diagnostic apparatus body combines a plurality of images captured in the different directions of transmission and reception to produce an ultrasound image. In this process, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus measures the temperature of the ultrasound probe to change the ultrasound transmission and reception for producing a composite ultrasound image or makes the directions of transmission and reception in the last ultrasound image in one composite ultrasound image coincide with those in the first ultrasound image in its temporally adjacent composite ultrasound image. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus thus enables consistent ultrasound diagnosis against heat generated in the integrated circuit board of the ultrasound probe while simplifying the control of the ultrasound transmission and reception.

A patient care distribution and management system is provided. The system allows for the seamless roaming of a patient within a particular medical facility or between medical facilities. The system includes body area network (BAN) management agents which process data within specified parts of a defined operational remit of a medical facility, a BAN hub agent associated with each patient that communicates with a BAN management agent and stores patient data delivered thereto by medical telemetry monitor diagnostic devices (MTMDDs) connected to each patient. The essential feature of the system is that the BAN hub agent has relatively little processing power compared to the BAN management agent which feeds it with patient monitoring rules to monitor the patient condition and to enable the BAN hub agent to set off alarms etc. as required.

The invention discloses an aided navigation system of puncture operation under ultrasonic image, belonging to the navigation field of the puncture operation based on three-dimensional spatial orientation and ultrasonic image, the aided navigation system is characterized in that a three-dimensional spatial position measurement device fixed on a handle or a shell of an ultrasonic probe of an ultrasonic diagnostic equipment performs three-dimensional space positioning on a position marker or a sensor fixed on the a handle or a shell of a puncture instrument so as to compute relationship of the spatial position and direction of the tip of the puncture instrument and ultrasonic image plane by image fusion workstation, and display computed result and ultrasonic image; the aided navigation system can be applied in puncture operation where the puncture instrument and ultrasonic image plane form any angle, the puncture direction of the puncture instrument is guided accurately in real time during puncture, and the puncture instrument is enabled to accurately puncture so as to arrive at a target area in the ultrasonic image.

Each of an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and an image processing apparatus according to the present invention is characterized by comprising image acquisition means for acquiring image data by scanning a patient into whom an ultrasonic contrast medium has been injected, with ultrasonic beams, same-part correspondence means for bringing same parts into correspondence with each other, between a plurality of images concerning the same parts of the identical patient and acquired by the image acquisition means, arithmetic operation means for arithmetically operating image information items on changes of intensities between the plurality of images by using the intensities of those corresponding pixels of the plurality of images which have been brought into correspondence by the pixel correspondence means, and display means for displaying results operated by the arithmetic operation means. According to the construction, it is possible to provide the ultrasonic diagnostic equipment and the image processing apparatus which can compare the images before and after injection of a vasodilator drug, more accurately in contrast echo imaging.

The invention discloses ultrasonic diagnostic equipment with a touch screen and a parameter adjusting method thereof. The ultrasonic diagnostic equipment is characterized in that a parameter adjusting module comprises a displayer, a touch screen type parameter adjusting command receiving and identifying module and a command processing module which are connected in sequence; the touch screen type parameter adjusting command receiving and identifying module is arranged in the area range of the detected images displayed by a display screen and is used for directly receiving the parameter adjusting command aiming at the images displayed in the image display area corresponding to parameter adjusting command; after receiving the parameter adjusting command, the touch screen type parameter adjusting command receiving and identifying module is used for transmitting the command to the command processing module; the command processing module is used for adjusting the parameters, which are specified by the command, of the detected images displayed in the display area according to the received command and then transmitting the command processing results to the display screen; and the display screen is used for displaying the detected images after parameter adjustment. The ultrasonic diagnostic equipment and the parameter adjusting method have the following advantages: the touch screen is adopted to replace the keyboard in traditional ultrasound; and the parameters are adjusted through simple operations on the ultrasonic images, thus ensuring the display interface to be more simplifiedand easier to use.

Three times of ultrasonic transmissions are executed in positive, negative and negative polarities with reference to a predetermined rate period, for each of a plurality of ultrasonic scan lines, and echo signals caused and generated by the ultrasonic waves of the respective transmissions are received at the same rates. At each scan line, the echo signal based on the positive-polarity ultrasonic wave of the first transmission and the echo signal based on the negative-polarity ultrasonic wave of the second transmission are added up, thereby to generate an ordinary mode image. Besides, at each scan line, the echo signal based on the positive-polarity ultrasonic wave of the first transmission and the echo signal based on the negative-polarity ultrasonic wave of the third transmission are added up, thereby to generate puncture mode image data. The generated ordinary mode image and puncture mode image are displayed in a predetermined aspect.

A universal and reversible disposable ECG sensor positioning mask and method for use with electrocardiogram diagnostic equipment for left and right chest ECGs in which the mask has at least nine sensors, six of which can be used at any one time to provide up to four different sizes to accommodate varying sized human torsos.

The invention designs a software refreshing method of an automobile electronic equipment controller based on a CAN line, and the method comprises the following steps: step A: entering a refresh mode from the normal application program running state of an electronic equipment system; step B: checking a memory of the automobile electronic system and judging whether the memory stores correct application program or not; and step C: downloading application program codes from a diagnostic equipment if the memory has no correct application program, and transmitting and refreshing the application program based on the CAN line. The method using the diagnostic equipment based on the CAN line for Flash writing facilitates the software refreshing of the automobile controller at the product stage. CAN interfaces are used for refreshing, any one of CAN node interfaces on the automobile can serve as an interface of a diagnosis instrument, the controller can be placed in the automobile with relative narrow arrangement space, the software refreshing is greatly facilitated, and costs are very low.

A voice activated vehicle diagnostic system provides for hands free operation of the system. Using such a system it is possible for the diagnostic system to be used safely in a test drive of the vehicle with the operator of the system not required to physically touch the system to implement one or more tests as required.

In order to enable patient data to be reliably taken into account in a simple manner for examination by means of an imaging medical diagnostic equipment of a patient positionable on a table top of a patient table, it is provided according to the invention for an occupancy distribution exerted by the patient on the table top to be ascertained, patient data corresponding to this occupancy distribution, specifically in respect of body dimensions and / or body posture, to be determined, and the diagnostic equipment to be adjusted according to the patient data; to ascertain the occupancy distribution, there is advantageously provided a distribution of pressure sensors.

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an imaging device having a Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) scanner to generate MRI data associated with soft tissue of a patient, and supply said MRI data to diagnostic equipment that selects one or more normative soft tissue profiles of a select anatomical section, and generates a three dimensional soft tissue image from the MRI data and the one or more normative soft tissue profiles. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a diagnosis apparatus for analyzing arterial pulse waves comprising a database 26 in which is stored data showing the relationship between data representing a pulse wave of a living body and teaching data representing conditions of the living body; and a micro-computer 21 for outputting teaching data corresponding to the pulse wave detected from the living body in the teaching data on the basis of the pulse wave detected from the living body and the stored data inside database 26. As a result, it becomes possible to perform diagnoses equivalent to a skilled doctor.

A biosensor includes a substrate with a receptive material layer of radiation-absorbing member (RAM)-tagged biomolecules disposed thereon. The receptive material is specific for an analyte of interest. A pattern of active and deactivated areas of the receptive material are defined in the receptive material layer by a masking process wherein areas are exposed through a mask with a light source to induce deactivation.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises: an ultrasound probe including a transducer array; a plurality of diagnostic apparatus bodies corresponding to a plurality of parts of the transducer array for transmitting ultrasonic waves through corresponding transducers and processing reception signals from the corresponding transducers, respectively; and a synchronizing signal supply unit for supplying a common clock signal and a common trigger signal to the plurality of diagnostic apparatus bodies for causing the plurality of diagnostic apparatus bodies to operate in synchronism.