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230 results about "Ultrasound doppler" patented technology

A Doppler ultrasound is a noninvasive test that can be used to estimate the blood flow through your blood vessels by bouncing high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) off circulating red blood cells. A regular ultrasound uses sound waves to produce images, but can't show blood flow.

Device and method for vascular monitoring

A vascular coupler adapted to be fixed into position upon a blood vessel and there retain and position a matable sensing device. In a preferred embodiment, the vascular coupler is an anastomotic coupler and the sensing device comprises an ultrasonic Doppler probe.
Owner:SYNOVIS LIFE TECH

Multifrequency phased array ultrasonic Doppler flow detection system and method

The invention discloses a multifrequency phased array ultrasonic Doppler flow detection system and a multifrequency phased array ultrasonic Doppler flow detection method. The system comprises a central control processor, a frequency synthesizer, a transmitting part, a receiving part and a display, wherein the transmitting part comprises a transmitter, a power distribution network, a beam control network, a first beam subarray and a second beam subarray; the receiving part comprises a first beam receiver, a second beam receiver, a multi-beam forming network and a signal processor. The system is characterized in that the central control processor is respectively connected with the frequency synthesizer, the transmitter, the power distribution network, the beam control network, the first beam receiver, the second beam receiver, the multi-beam forming network and the signal processor. In the detection method of the system, beam deflection and dynamic focusing are realized through the phased array technology, multi-directional and multi-depth positions can be measured on the cross section of an integral pipeline, and by a mode of adjusting beam scanning dynamically, the processing timeof the beam scanning is reduced, and the measuring accuracy is improved.
Owner:SOUTH CHINA UNIV OF TECH

Ultrasonic doppler sensor for speech-based user interface

A method and system detect speech activity. An ultrasonic signal is directed at a face of a speaker over time. A Doppler signal of the ultrasonic signal is acquired after reflection by the face. Energy in the Doppler signal is measured over time. The energy over time is compared to a predetermined threshold to detect speech activity of the speaker in a concurrently acquired audio signal.
Owner:MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB INC

Ultrasonic Doppler Sensor for Speaker Recognition

A method and system recognizes an unknown speaker by directing an ultrasonic signal at a face of the unknown speaker. A Doppler signal of the ultrasonic signal is acquired after reflection by the face, and Doppler features are extracted from the reflected Doppler signal. The Doppler features are classified using Doppler models storing the Doppler features and identities of known speakers to recognize and identify the unknown speaker.
Owner:MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB INC

Method and apparatus for detecting blood dynamics of brain blood vessel

A hemodynamic method and instrument for early diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases features that the Doppler probe and ultrasonography B are used to detect the blood flowing speed, the ultrasonography B is used to detect the physical characteristics of blood vassel, the diameter and wall thickness of blood vessel are measured to obtain the flow of blood in the vessel, and a pressure probe is used to detect blood pressure.
Owner:无锡贝尔森影像技术有限公司

Ultrasonic Doppler System and Method for Gesture Recognition

A method and system recognizes an unknown gesture by directing an ultrasonic signal at an object making an unknown gestures. A set of Doppler signals are acquired of the ultrasonic signal after reflection by the object. Doppler features are extracted from the reflected Doppler signal, and the Doppler features are classified using a set of Doppler models storing the Doppler features and identities of known gestures to recognize and identify the unknown gesture, wherein there is one Doppler model for each known gesture.
Owner:MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB INC

Method and Apparatus For Determining The Absolute Value Of Intracranial Pressure

A method and apparatus for obtaining the absolute value of intracranial pressure in a non-invasive manner is described by using an ultrasonic Doppler measuring device which detects the intracranial and extracranial blood flow velocities of the intracranial and extracranial segments of the ophthalmic artery. The eye in which the blood flow is monitored is subjected to an external pressure, sufficient to equalize the intracranial and extracranial angle-independent blood flow factors calculated from the intracranial velocity signal and extracranial velocity signal. The absolute value of the intracranial pressure is identified as that external pressure at which such equalization occurs.
Owner:UAB VITTAMED

Gas-liquid two-phase flow metering device and method

The invention provides a gas-liquid two-phase flow metering device, which mainly comprises a cyclone, a rectifier, an ultrasonic probe, an ultrasonic Doppler velocimeter, a Pitot tube, a differential pressure transducer, a pressure transducer, a temperature transducer, a data acquisition computer, and the like. A flow metering method provided by the invention comprises the steps of separating a gas-liquid two-phase flow in a tube by means of the cyclone to form an annular liquid film region and a central gas region, measuring the liquid flow in a liquid film by means of the ultrasonic Doppler velocimeter, and measuring the gas flow by means of the Pitot tube. Compared with a multiphase flowmeter in the prior art, the above gas-liquid two-phase flow metering device is small in size, compact in structure, small in resistance loss, wide in measurement range, and high in measurement precision.
Owner:CHINA UNIV OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)

Dual frequency doppler ultrasound probe

An ultrasonic Doppler probe is provided for use in connection with non-invasive Doppler imaging of fluid flow within the human body. The Doppler probe can be selectively operated at more than one frequency during the course of a Doppler imaging examination thereby enhancing the resolution of the image obtained while also increasing the effective depth of the image. The probe of the present invention employs piezo-electric materials for the formation of acoustic transmitting and receiving transducers that are positioned within the probe to allow the probe to be selectively operated at a number of different frequencies spanning no more than one octave in frequency range.
Owner:UNETIXS VASCULAR INC

Fetal heart sound monitoring instrument based on piezoelectric thin-film sensor

The invention discloses a fetal heart sound monitoring instrument comprising a piezoelectric thin-film sensor, a control circuit and a display component, wherein the control circuit and the piezoelectric thin-film sensor are electrically connected by a conducting wire. According to the fetal heart sound monitoring instrument, the mechanical vibration of the skin of the abdomen of a pregnant woman, which is caused by the palpitation movement of a fetus in the abdomen of the pregnant woman, is sensed by adopting the piezoelectric thin-film sensor and is also converted into a corresponding charge signal, the treatment of amplification, filtration, analog-to-digital conversion, separation and the like is carried out on the charge signal by the control circuit, and finally, a corresponding monitoring result is obtained by output. The fetal heart sound monitoring instrument disclosed by the invention has the advantages of signal monitoring sensitivity, accuracy and good linearity, easy production and manufacture and the like. The fetal heart sound monitoring instrument has more advantages that the fetal heart sound monitoring instrument disclosed by the invention is convenient to use and does not have any injuring action to a mother and a child, so that the fetal heart sound monitoring instrument can be used as a medical auxiliary instrument which is between a fetal heart stethoscope and an ultrasonic Doppler fetal heart sound detecting instrument and is used for clinical diagnosis and the self checking of the pregnant woman.
Owner:PEKING UNIV SHENZHEN GRADUATE SCHOOL

Ultrasound doppler diagnostic apparatus and image date generating method

An ultrasonic Doppler diagnostic equipment comprising a spectrum measurement unit which measures a Doppler spectrum, a decision unit which determines processing conditions of an average process on the basis of power values of spectral components in the Doppler spectrum, an average process unit which performs the average process of the Doppler spectrum on the basis of the processing conditions determined by the decision unit, and a display unit which displays a Doppler spectral image on the basis of the Doppler spectrum subjected to the average process by the average process unit. According to the configuration, the ultrasonic Doppler diagnostic equipment can improve discontinuities in those spectral components of small power values which are susceptible to interference noise, in the Doppler spectral image, and it can generate image data of high resolution.
Owner:TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYST CORP

Method and Apparatus for Continuously Monitoring Intracranial Pressure

A method and apparatus for continuously measuring the absolute intracranial pressure in a non-invasive manner is described by using an ultrasonic Doppler device which detects the pulsatility indexes of the blood flow inside the eye artery for both intracranial and extracranial eye artery portions. The eye in which the blood flow is monitored is subjected to a small pressure, sufficient to equalize the pulsatility index measurements of the internal and external portions of the eye artery. The pressure at which such equalization occurs is used as a reference for autocalibration of the apparatus so that continuous absolute intracranial pressure measurements may be taken over a particular sampling period.
Owner:UAB VITTAMED

Colorful blood flow imaging based on ultrasonic Doppler frequency spectrum and display method thereof

The invention discloses a colorful blood flow imaging based on an ultrasonic Doppler frequency spectrum and a display method thereof. The display method comprises the following steps: (1) selecting a sampling door which is large enough; (2) dividing the sampling door into M sub-doors; (3) calculating the frequency spectrum of a time series summed in every sub-door; (4) calculating the upper and lower envelope curves of the frequency spectrum corresponding to every sub-door, determining an effective frequency band analysis area, and calculating the average blood flow speed and a mean square error in the effective frequency band analysis area; and (5) converting speed and variance yields into colorful codes and displaying by using a preset color mapping table. According to the display method provided by the invention, a plurality of doors are utilized to obtain the flow velocity and variance distribution at different positions along the cross section of a blood vessel, therefore, the distribution of the blood flow in a spatial position can be observed better, the volume and blood flow velocity can be measured more precisely, and the colorful blood flow imaging has an important clinical meaning on the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases.
Owner:SASET CHENGDU TECH LTD

Instant heart rate detection method and device for Doppler fetal heart sound based on time-frequency analysis

The invention relates to the technical field of medical monitoring, and discloses an instant heart rate detection method and device for Doppler fetal heart sound based on time-frequency analysis. The detection method comprises the following steps: preprocessing the Doppler fetal heart sound through a band-pass filter; performing time-sequence analysis on the preprocessed ultrasonic Doppler fetal heart sound, and acquiring a time-sequence graph of the ultrasonic Doppler fetal heart sound by adopting an STFT (Short Time Fourier Transform) to realize convenient and rapid calculation; acquiring the instant heart rate of the fetal heart sound with a cross-correlation method: selecting a feature frequency band according to the time-frequency graph of Doppler fetal heart sound, selecting a feature template according to prior knowledge of a fetal sound signal, evaluating a cross-correlation function of the feature frequency band and the feature template, drawing a cross-correlation curve, and calculating the instant heart rate of the ultrasonic Doppler fetal heart sound signal by calculating the interval of the crest value of the cross-correlation curve. The method can be applied to calculation of the instant heart rate of a clinically-acquired ultrasonic Doppler fetal heart sound signal, and has the advantages of easiness, high calculation speed and high accuracy.
Owner:GUANGDONG UNIV OF TECH

Ultrasonic cavitating apparatus and ultrasonic doppler flow measurement system

Disclosed is an ultrasonic Doppler flow measurment system that achieves flow measurement regardless of the temperature of a fluid. A temperature sensor 7 is combined with a pipe 1 to measure the temperature of a fluid 2. A controller 9 calculates a frequency that will cause cavitation when an ultrasonic transducer 4 exerts an ultrasonic vibration on the fluid 2 on the basis of a temperature measured by the temperature sensor 7 and controls a sinusoidal oscillator 6.
Owner:KK TOSHIBA +1

Ultrasonic open channel flow rate comprehensive monitoring instrument and measuring method thereof

InactiveCN101672647AModify working parameters at any timeDisplay working status in timeThermometers using electric/magnetic elementsVolume/mass flow measurementUnderwaterUltrasonic doppler
The invention discloses an ultrasonic open channel flow rate comprehensive monitoring instrument and a measuring method thereof, belonging to the field of metering. The monitoring instrument comprisesan underwater measuring equipment and an abovewater control equipment which are connected with each other by a cable, wherein the control equipment sends measurement command to the measuring equipment; the measuring equipment is used for detecting the flow rate and the liquid level and transmitting the results to the control equipment; and the control equipment stores and displays the received results. The specific steps of the method are explained in specification. The invention utilizes ultrasonic Doppler principle to measure the flow rate and ultrasonic transit-time method principle to measure the liquid level, and can simultaneously measure the water temperature. The invention can modify the working parameters of the instrument at any time, avoids the occurrence of siltation and blockage fault of sensors, displays the current working state timely, alarms in time when finding the fault, is beneficial to reducing the power consumption, and is applicable to measuring rivers or channels with wider widths; furthermore, an split-type ultrasonic wave sensor and a temperature sensor lead independent debugging to be easier, thus being easy to realize standardized production. The invention can be applied to metering the flow rate of open channels, rivers and the like.
Owner:CHINA IRRIGATION & DRAINAGE DEV CENT +2

Array fetal heart monitoring abdominal bandage based on piezoelectric film sensor

The invention provides an array fetal heart monitoring abdominal bandage based on a piezoelectric film sensor and relates to the field of monitoring on the heart of a fetus. The invention is used for solving the problems of serious error, 'invasion type' monitoring manner and low accuracy caused in the fact that a fetal heart sound stethoscope, an ultrasonic Doppler fetal heart sound instrument and a single sensor are used for fetal heart monitoring in the prior art. Magic pastes are respectively arranged at the two end parts of the abdominal bandage, and a piezoelectric film sensor array is arranged at the middle part of the abdominal bandage; a detection circuit is arranged on the abdominal bandage; and the detection circuit is composed of a preposed differential amplifying circuit, a filter circuit, an analog / digital conversion circuit, a DSP (digital signal processing) module, a storage module and an interface module. The adopted piezoelectric film sensor has the advantages of high response speed, high flexibility and good linearity, and high detection accuracy can be guaranteed; and the piezoelectric film sensor is light, soft and durable, so that the piezoelectric film sensor can be in fit with a human body well after being embedded into the abdominal bandage and a man-machine effect is good.
Owner:HARBIN INST OF TECH

Method and device for using ultrasound Doppler information to display bloodstream image

The invention relates to an ultrasound diagnosis technique, in particular to a method and a device of displaying blood flow images by ultrasonic Doppler information. The invention is characterized in that: firstly, ultrasonic impulses are emitted to an interesting direction or an interesting region according to the predetermined repeated frequency, and echo signals returning from the direction or the region are received; secondly, a series of orthogonal composite Doppler difference frequency signals with the sampling volume are extracted from the echo signals; thirdly, the delayed autocorrelation strength of the orthogonal composite Doppler difference frequency signals is calculated; fourthly, the blood flow images are displayed according to the delayed autocorrelation strength. The blood flow images can also be clearly displayed through the ultrasonic Doppler information under the conditions that the signal-noise ratio is low and the transmission power is not increased.
Owner:FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Underwater multipurpose robot propelled by bionic undulating fins

The invention discloses an underwater multipurpose robot propelled by bionic undulating fins. The underwater multipurpose robot comprises a head, a middle, a tail, a left bionic undulating fin propelling mechanism and a right bionic undulating fin propelling mechanism which are arranged in sequence. The bionic undulating fin propelling mechanisms on the left side and the right side with a cam swing arm driving structure as the core are adopted for driving the fin strips to drive the flexible fin faces to generate continuous undulating deformation, the fin strips act with water to generate advancing thrust, through cooperation with a sinking and floating adjusting mechanism in the middle, multi-dimensional movement such as straight moving, turning and floating and diving of the underwater robot can be achieved, and good maneuverability is achieved. Meanwhile, the sensing flow field speed data and the self orientation data can be obtained according to an ultrasonic Doppler current meterarranged at the head part and a USBL underwater acoustic positioning system; motion of the underwater robot is planned, the underwater robot is selected to operate on a channel with constant flow velocity and small flow resistance, the underwater robot has the capacity of sensing and reducing underwater surge interference in advance, and the underwater robot has good reliability and robustness.
Owner:XI AN JIAOTONG UNIV

Deep learning algorithms for heartbeats detection

A system that detects heartbeats includes a sensor or a transducer and algorithms based on deep learning. The algorithms employ techniques of artificial intelligence that enable the system to extract heartbeat features under low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) conditions when a user is exercising. The algorithms can be applied to various technologies for heart rate monitoring such as ultrasound Doppler, photoplethysmogram (PPG), electrocardiogram (EKG), acoustic, pressure / force sensing and laser / RF Doppler, among other types of sensing methods.
Owner:LOGOS CARE INC

Two-phase flow phase-splitting flow velocity acoustic-electric bimodal measuring method

The invention provides a two-phase flow phase-splitting flow velocity acoustic-electric bimodal measuring method. A used bimodal sensor comprises an electric sensor and an ultrasonic Doppler probe. The measuring method comprises: acquiring a signal and acquiring water phase volume fraction, oil phase volume fraction, and two-phase flow mixed density by using the electric sensor; determining the measuring space of the ultrasonic Doppler probe and computing the equivalent height of the measuring space; computing a difference between ultrasonic signal frequency acquired by a ultrasonic receiving probe and exciting ultrasonic signal frequency emitted from a ultrasonic emitting probe and computing average flow velocity in the measuring space; establishing a fluid flow velocity distribution relation of a position in a pipeline and a certain distance to the wall of the pipeline; establishing a relation between Doppler measurement flow velocity and boundary layer flow velocity in the measuring space; solving the boundary layer flow velocity; and computing total flow velocity and acquiring the water phase flow velocity and oil phase flow velocity. The two-phase flow phase-splitting flow velocity acoustic-electric bimodal measuring method may accurately acquire two-phase flow phase volume fraction by a noninvasive mode.
Owner:TIANJIN UNIV

Trigger extraction from ultrasound doppler signals

A trigger extraction system for obtaining an event trigger for an event occurring in a region of interest includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a trigger extraction program stored in the memory for execution by the processor. The trigger extraction program includes instructions for accessing ultrasound trigger data from a trigger region intersecting a region of interest, analyzing the trigger data for a trigger characteristic, and storing an event trigger based on the trigger characteristic.
Owner:GE MEDICAL SYST GLOBAL TECH CO LLC

Multiphase flowmeter using a combination of pressure differentials and ultrasound doppler readings

A multiphase flowmeter, and a method of analyzing and measuring multiphase flow is described. The body of the multiphase flowmeter consists of the following components. It has a straight flow pipe in which two orifice plates a lodged near the extremities. At each of these two locations, a pressure differential transmitter measures the pressure drop that occurs as the fluid passes through the orifice plates. Along the length between the orifice plates, an ultrasound Doppler sensor measures the volume flow rate of the multiphase fluid, a pressure transmitter measures the in-pipe pressure and a temperature sensor measures the temperature. From the signals obtained from the above sensors, an overall analysis of the multiphase fluid flow is performed providing a complete set of flow measurement data for the mixture and for each of the three phases consisting of oil, water and gas.
Owner:MEDENG RES INST

Fetal heart monitoring device

The invention provides a fetal heart monitoring device which comprises an ultrasonic probe, an information input module, an information processing module and an information display module, wherein the ultrasonic probe is used for probing fetal heart signals and enabling ultrasonic Doppler signals of fetal heart movement to be converted to audio frequency information to be outputted, the information processing module is used for calculating and processing user body information inputted through the information input module and fetal heart audio frequency information of a fetus-voice meter main body inputted through a communication unit to generate display information data, and the information display module is used for displaying display information generated by the information processing module. The display information comprises fetal heart position information obtained through calculation and processing of the information processing module according to a pregnancy cycle of a user. The fetal heart monitoring device can monitor the fetal hear rate of a fetus, can help a pregnant woman quickly and precisely find a fetal heart position in use, smoothly carries out fetal heart monitoring, and eliminates anxious and nervous moods of the pregnant woman.
Owner:ANDON HEALTH CO LTD +1

Doppler fetal cardiac sound instantaneous heart rate detecting method based on blind separation

The invention provides a Doppler fetal cardiac sound instantaneous heart rate detecting method based on blind separation. The detection method comprises the following steps that the Doppler fetal cardiac sound is subjected to denoising preprocessing through a low-pass filter; the processed ultrasonic Doppler fetal cardiac sound is subjected to time-frequency analysis, and the short-time Fourier transform is utilized for solving the time-frequency diagram of the ultrasonic Doppler fetal cardiac sound signals; several characteristic frequency bands are selected from the time-frequency diagram according to the priori knowledge of the periodic characteristic of the time-frequency diagram of the fetal cardiac sound signals, then, different selected frequency band signals are subjected to Fast ICA analysis, independent components are worked out, then, the independent component IC which is most matched with the fetal cardiac sound signals is determined, next, a self-correlation function of the most matched independent component IC is calculated, the peak value is detected, and finally, the fetal cardiac sound heart rate is calculated. The Doppler fetal cardiac sound instantaneous heart rate detecting method is used for calculating the instantaneous heart rate on the clinically collected ultrasonic Doppler fetal cardiac sound signals and has the advantages that the method is simple, the calculation speed is high, the flexibility is good, and the accuracy is high.
Owner:GUANGDONG UNIV OF TECH

Trigger extraction from ultrasound doppler signals

A trigger extraction system for obtaining an event trigger for an event occurring in a region of interest includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a trigger extraction program stored in the memory for execution by the processor. The trigger extraction program includes instructions for accessing ultrasound trigger data from a trigger region intersecting a region of interest, analyzing the trigger data for a trigger characteristic, and storing an event trigger based on the trigger characteristic.
Owner:GE MEDICAL SYST GLOBAL TECH CO LLC

Ultrasonic-Doppler-effect positioning puncturing device for vessel

ActiveCN103750866APrecisely control the puncture anglePrecise control of puncture depthUltrasonic/sonic/infrasonic diagnosticsSurgical needlesControl systemUltrasonic doppler
The invention relates to an ultrasonic-Doppler-effect positioning puncturing device for the vessel. The device comprises an ultrasonic probe, a main control system and a puncturing device. The puncturing device comprises a support, a needle tube, a puncturing needle, a first coder and a second coder. The support is installed on the ultrasonic probe, the front end of the needle tube is installed infront of the support in a rotatable mode, an arc-shaped groove is formed in the rear of the support, and a guide rod is arranged at the rear end of the needle tube and located in the arc-shaped groove. The first coder is installed on the side wall of the needle tube, the second coder is installed on the guide rod, and the ultrasonic probe, the first coder and the second coder are electrically connected with the main control system. Due to the fact that the first coder and the second coder are arranged, through linkage between the needle tube and the ultrasonic probe, needle insertion is guided according to a puncturing range, a puncturing thread, angle information and depth information, the puncturing angle and puncturing depth of the puncturing needle are accurately controlled, it is ensured that a needle head of the puncturing needle accurately reaches the vessel of a focus part, then puncturing work is finished in a one-off mode, and the ultrasonic-Doppler-effect positioning puncturing device is safer and more reliable.
Owner:SHANTOU INST OF UITRASONIC INSTR CO LTD

Method for increasing self-adjusting performance of ultrasonic Doppler imaging and ultrasonic system thereof

The invention discloses a method for increasing the self-adjusting performance of ultrasonic Doppler imaging and an ultrasonic system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: performing down-sampling treatment to echoes, generating a down-sampling acoustic spectrum image; and calling the calculated Doppler spectrogram adjusted by the down-sampling acoustic spectrum image. The Doppler self-adjusting method of the invention adopts the mode of down-sampling to treat two-way parallel echoes, wherein one way uses the original echoes to obtain a spectrogram and the other way uses the original echoes to perform down-sampling and obtain a spectrogram. The PRF of the spectrogram obtained through down-sampling is reduced, thus the blood flow signal region can be expanded. When signal extension is searched, boundary research can be performed on the down-sampling spectrogram so as to avoid inaccurate decisions caused by the small blood flow signal region.
Owner:SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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