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20080275330 | Mri Guided Ultrasound Therapy Apparatus - This invention provides a MRI guided ultrasound therapy apparatus. It comprises a static field magnet adapted to apply a static magnetic field in an magnetic resonance volume at a predetermined disposition; at least one ultrasound energy applicator adapted to apply energy within an energy application zone at a predetermined disposition; and The mechanical positioning means for moving said ultrasound energy applicator to position the applicator so that the energy application zone intersects said magnetic resonance volume within said region of the subject. In that apparatus, the static field magnet is open at both ends or open at side. The sided open is upward or downward and the mechanical positioning means of this ultrasound energy applicator is close to and is located outside of this sided open. This invention reduces the space limitation for the mechanical positioning means of the ultrasound transducer. Meanwhile, the non-magnetic requirement on the mechanical positioning means become less greatly and particularly the problem of interference from magnetic field produced by working current of the transducer power cord to MRI system can be solved. | 11-06-2008 |
20090036802 | Swing Type High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapeutic Apparatus and Mri Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapeutic System Having Such a Swing Type Apparatus - The present invention belongs to the technical field of ultrasound therapy, and relates to a swing type high-intensity focused ultrasound therapeutic apparatus and an MRI guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapeutic system having such a swing type apparatus. The swing type high-intensity focused ultrasound therapeutic apparatus comprises an ultrasound transducer and a moving-locating mechanism thereof, wherein said moving-locating mechanism adopts a swing mechanism which is connected to the ultrasound transducer by a supporting rod. The MRI guided therapeutic system comprises this swing type therapeutic apparatus. In the present invention, the ultrasound transducer moves freely in multiple dimensions and the moving-locating mechanism adopts a swing mechanism, so the interference generated by the MRI guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapeutic system on the MRI apparatus is quite small and thereby the quality of the ultrasound image obtained is good. | 02-05-2009 |
20090093708 | MRI guided high-intensity focused ultrasonic therapeutic system - A MRI guided high-intensity focused ultrasonic therapeutic system comprises: a MRI apparatus and a high-intensity focused ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus. Said MRI apparatus includes the first treatment bed and said high-intensity focused ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus includes an ultrasound transducer and a moving and positioning means, which drives said transducer to move in respective directions. Wherein, said moving and positioning means is placed outside of the bore of the MRI apparatus during treatment and a supporting rod, which can extend into the bore of the MRI apparatus, is connected to said moving and positioning means at one end and is connected to said ultrasound transducer at the other end. In the system provided by the present invention, said ultrasound transducer can move in multiple orientations, freely move without any limitation of space under the treatment bed, brings less interference to the MRI apparatus, fully exerts the function and efficiency of the MRI apparatus and achieves the best therapeutic effects. | 04-09-2009 |
20100174188 | High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapeutic System Guided by an Imaging Device - A high intensity focused ultrasound therapeutic system guided by an imaging device is provided and includes an ultrasound therapeutic applicator which contains an ultrasound transducer ( | 07-08-2010 |
20100234773 | Ultrasonic Therapeutic Means and An Ultrasonic Therapeutic System of Using the Same - An ultrasonic therapeutic means and an ultrasonic therapeutic system including the ultrasonic therapeutic means and guided by an imaging device are provided. The ultrasonic therapeutic means includes an ultrasonic therapeutic applicator ( | 09-16-2010 |
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20130000586 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CARBURETTOR CHOKE VALVE - An automatic control apparatus for a carburetor choke valve includes a pull-rod, throttle control lever, choke block, and temperature control assembly which is arranged on a cylinder head through a bracket having a rotating shaft and coil spring. The rotating shaft is connected to the spring and one end of the pull-rod via a rotary arm. The other end of the pull-rod is located at a choke valve shaft. The block and valve shaft are connected to respective ends of the lever. During cold start, the block is opened driving the lever to pull the valve shaft. When rotated through a certain angle the valve shaft is blocked by part of the pull-rod, such that the valve and block cannot be fully opened. During warm start, the valve shaft when returning is blocked by another part of the pull-rod such that the valve cannot fully close. | 01-03-2013 |
20130001229 | UNIVERSAL GASOLINE ENGINE FUEL TANK COVER - The present utility model discloses a universal gasoline engine fuel tank cover including an outer shell, an inner shell and a sealing cover located on the upper surface of the inner shell, wherein the outer shell and the inner shell are connected through a ratchet mechanism and a limiting mechanism, the inner shell having a partition I and a partition II disposed in its upper cavity to divide the upper cavity into a first adsorption chamber, a second adsorption chamber and a third adsorption chamber, the first adsorption chamber and the second adsorption chamber having fine carbon particles disposed therein, the third adsorption chamber having a cylindrical foam disposed therein, the bottom of the partition I being disposed with an air hole I connecting the third adsorption chamber to the fuel tank, and the bottom of the first adsorption chamber being disposed with an air hole II causing the first adsorption chamber to be connected to the atmosphere outside. The present utility model is advantageous in that it has a delicate structural design, it is easy to assemble, its cost is low, it can effectively prevent direct exhaust of volatilized gasoline into the atmosphere, and accurate judgment can be made as to whether the fuel tank cover is adequately tightened. | 01-03-2013 |
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20110279295 | PIPELINED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND ITS SINGLE REDUNDANCY BIT DIGITAL CORRECTION TECHNIQUE - The present invention pertains to the technical field of A/D converter, to be more specific, a pipeline A/D converter and its single redundancy bit digital correction. The related single redundancy bit digital correction features the following steps: substages except for the last one quantizes input voltage, calculates the residual voltage, which is amplified and shifted to the middle part of the reference voltage range, and outputs to the following substage until the last one, which only quantizes the input voltage; The code and offset code of each substage, corresponding to the quantized thermometer code is calculated; the offset codes of all stages are added by weight to get total offset code; codes of all substages are added by weight, to which the total offset code is added. The comparator offset error is corrected to obtain an output code; the present invention released the A/D converter that applies the foregoing digital correction; the present invention is capable of reducing the number of substages of high speed and high resolution pipeline A/D converter and identifying the negative or positive overflows of input signals. | 11-17-2011 |
20130328620 | VOLTAGE REFERENCE CIRCUIT BASED ON TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION - The present invention pertains to a voltage reference circuit based on temperature compensation, comprising positive and negative temperature coefficient generating units, temperature compensation circuit, image circuit and voltage divider. In this circuit, Item T is compensated with Item T, and Item T ln(T) is compensated by Item T in (T), which features a well-targeted compensation performance. The circuit outputs a reference voltage with zero temperature coefficient, which is independent to T and T ln (T). The output voltage value could be defined by adjusting the ratio of resistance in voltage divider. The invention provides a voltage reference circuit featuring good compensation, zero temperature coefficient and adjustable output voltage. The invention has a better compensation than the conventional one and a fixed output voltage, and it totally eliminates the temperature coefficient. The invention has wide application in analog IC and digital/analog mixed IC. | 12-12-2013 |
20150137854 | HIGH SPEED SAMPLING FRONT-END CIRCUIT - A high-speed sampling front-end circuit is presented that includes a MDAC sampling network, a reference voltage generator circuit, a comparator array, an operational amplifier, an output short-circuit switch, an adjustable clock duty cycle stabilizer, a status control module and a feedback control module. The circuit features low power, high sampling rate and high input bandwidth of sampling network. The time constant of the MDAC sampling network and the comparator array is precisely matched one another to improve input bandwidth of the sampling network. Sampling capacitors are designed as feedback capacitors and DAC calculation capacitors, thereby the operational amplifier doubles feedback coefficient and features 50% bandwidth and 50% power. The cycle stabilizer is adopted to shorten sampling time and extend amplification phase to greatly improve sampling rate. One input reference voltage tends to simplify the design of the reference voltage generator circuit. The circuit has wide applications in pipelined A/D converters. | 05-21-2015 |
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20080260790 | Plasmid Enhancement Agent for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment and Use Thereof - The present invention discloses a plasmid enhancement agent for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment, which can increase acoustic energy deposition at the target location during HIFU treatment. The enhancement agent comprises a nanometer-sized biocompatible solid. The present invention also discloses another plasmid enhancement agent for HIFU treatment, wherein, the enhancement agent comprises a discontinuous phase is comprised of a core material encapsulated by a membrane-forming material, and a continuous phase comprised of aqueous medium; the discontinuous phase is uniformly dispersed in the continuous phase and has a particle size ranging from 10-1000 nm; the amount of the membrane-forming material in the enhancement agent is 0.1-100g/L; and the core material comprises nanometer-sized biocompatible solid selected from the group consisting of magnetic biomaterials, hydroxylapatite, and calcium carbonate, and the amount of the core material in the enhancement agent is 0.1-150 g/L. | 10-23-2008 |
20080287835 | Integrated Ultrasound Therapy Transducer Assembly - The present invention is to provide an integrated ultrasound therapy transducer. It includes a piezoelectric transducer to generate therapy ultrasound, a support to support the piezoelectric transducer, a power amplifying module to drive the piezoelectric transducer. Wherein both the power amplifying module and the piezoelectric transducer are installed within the enclosure of the therapy transducer. The advantages of the integrated ultrasound therapy transducer assembly of the present invention include minimizing ultrasound therapy equipment and to decrease its volume and weight; reducing the electromagnetic interference and radiation greatly; and realizing the consistent performances of the ultrasound therapy equipments in mass productions and making the ultrasound therapy equipments have interchangeability. | 11-20-2008 |
20090054772 | Focused Ultrasound Therapy System - The present invention pertains to an ultrasound therapy system and more specifically, to a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy apparatus guided by image registration and fusion method. The therapy system of the present invention comprises a central control means; an acoustic energy applicator; a mechanical driving and locating means of said acoustic energy applicator; a real-time B-mode ultrasound image guiding device. Further the therapy system of the present invention comprises an immobilization means for body position. By the help of this immobilization means for body position, real-time B-mode ultrasound images can be registered with diagnosis images, and then on the basis of registration, said B-mode ultrasound images are fused with said diagnosis images for guiding said therapy. Comparing to the existed technical solutions in this field, the present invention has effectively solved the difficult problems in high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy and particularly for tumor treatment with a low cost. And it provides a very practical technical solution, which can be easily applied to clinical treatment of tumors. | 02-26-2009 |
20090117052 | Enhancement agent for high intensity focused ultrasound treatment and method for screening the same - The present invention discloses an enhancement agent for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment, which is administered to a patient before HIFU treatment and can reduce the level of EEF at the target location to be treated with HIFU. EEF is presented by the expression: EEF=ηPt/V (unit: J/mm | 05-07-2009 |
20130023801 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER - An ultrasonic transducer is disclosed, which includes one or a plurality of ultrasonic emitting units. Wavefronts of the ultrasonic waves emitted by the one or the plurality of ultrasonic emitting units are sphere surfaces with uniform radius, and the one or the plurality of ultrasonic emitting units can reflect ultrasound. The one ultrasonic emitting unit is configured to form a spherical resonant cavity, or the plurality of ultrasonic emitting units are configured to form a spherical resonant cavity collectively. An internal cavity of the spherical resonant cavity has a spherical shell shape or a cross-sectional spherical shell shape with a spherical center therein. The ultrasonic waves emitted by the one or the plurality of ultrasonic emitting units are focused on an area in which the spherical center of the spherical resonant cavity is located. The ultrasonic transducer not only can be provided with a large ultrasonic emitting area and a great focusing gain that render the energy of the ultrasonic focus enhanced dramatically, but also can be free from the influence of work frequency of an ultrasonic source. | 01-24-2013 |
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20080260790 | Plasmid Enhancement Agent for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment and Use Thereof - The present invention discloses a plasmid enhancement agent for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment, which can increase acoustic energy deposition at the target location during HIFU treatment. The enhancement agent comprises a nanometer-sized biocompatible solid. The present invention also discloses another plasmid enhancement agent for HIFU treatment, wherein, the enhancement agent comprises a discontinuous phase is comprised of a core material encapsulated by a membrane-forming material, and a continuous phase comprised of aqueous medium; the discontinuous phase is uniformly dispersed in the continuous phase and has a particle size ranging from 10-1000 nm; the amount of the membrane-forming material in the enhancement agent is 0.1-100g/L; and the core material comprises nanometer-sized biocompatible solid selected from the group consisting of magnetic biomaterials, hydroxylapatite, and calcium carbonate, and the amount of the core material in the enhancement agent is 0.1-150 g/L. | 10-23-2008 |
20080281252 | Apparatus for Body Cavity Delivery with Medium, Body Cavity Leading-in and Ultrasound Block - The present invention generally relates to a medical apparatus. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus for delivering a medium to body cavity of mammals including a human, especially to an apparatus for expanding rectum. Specifically, the present invention relates to the field of focused ultrasound treatment with a main purpose to provide an auxiliary device for ultrasound therapy applied to uterine myoma so as to avoid damage by ultrasound after focused within body. Therefore, the present invention provides an apparatus for blocking ultrasound, comprising (1) lead-in means for entering into said body cavity; and (2) accommodation means for containing ultrasound blocking medium, which enwraps the lead-in means outside. | 11-13-2008 |
20080287835 | Integrated Ultrasound Therapy Transducer Assembly - The present invention is to provide an integrated ultrasound therapy transducer. It includes a piezoelectric transducer to generate therapy ultrasound, a support to support the piezoelectric transducer, a power amplifying module to drive the piezoelectric transducer. Wherein both the power amplifying module and the piezoelectric transducer are installed within the enclosure of the therapy transducer. The advantages of the integrated ultrasound therapy transducer assembly of the present invention include minimizing ultrasound therapy equipment and to decrease its volume and weight; reducing the electromagnetic interference and radiation greatly; and realizing the consistent performances of the ultrasound therapy equipments in mass productions and making the ultrasound therapy equipments have interchangeability. | 11-20-2008 |
20090054772 | Focused Ultrasound Therapy System - The present invention pertains to an ultrasound therapy system and more specifically, to a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy apparatus guided by image registration and fusion method. The therapy system of the present invention comprises a central control means; an acoustic energy applicator; a mechanical driving and locating means of said acoustic energy applicator; a real-time B-mode ultrasound image guiding device. Further the therapy system of the present invention comprises an immobilization means for body position. By the help of this immobilization means for body position, real-time B-mode ultrasound images can be registered with diagnosis images, and then on the basis of registration, said B-mode ultrasound images are fused with said diagnosis images for guiding said therapy. Comparing to the existed technical solutions in this field, the present invention has effectively solved the difficult problems in high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy and particularly for tumor treatment with a low cost. And it provides a very practical technical solution, which can be easily applied to clinical treatment of tumors. | 02-26-2009 |
20090117052 | Enhancement agent for high intensity focused ultrasound treatment and method for screening the same - The present invention discloses an enhancement agent for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment, which is administered to a patient before HIFU treatment and can reduce the level of EEF at the target location to be treated with HIFU. EEF is presented by the expression: EEF=ηPt/V (unit: J/mm | 05-07-2009 |