33 results about "Breast examinations" patented technology

An ultrasonic breast examination system suitable for use by unskilled users, comprising a patient positioning platform with a patient positioning image sensor, and a moveable ultrasonic transducer guidance device. The transducer guidance device can be a fluid filled container with a flexible side or bottom, and a mechanism to automatically move an ultrasonic transducer over the breast. The system will be controlled by at least one microprocessor, associated software, and an optional touch sensitive display screen. The system may use an image sensor to properly position the patient so that the transducer guidance device may be properly positioned proximate to the patient's breast. The touch sensitive display screen is designed to allow the system to be directly operated by an unskilled patient. The system will often be connected to a network, such as the Internet, so that remote operators may interpret breast ultrasound images and optionally control the system.

A method and device for breast examination adapted for easy home use including a tactile imager probe equipped with a pressure sensor array and a motion tracking system for simultaneously recording pressure and positioning data during the examination of a breast or any other soft tissue. The method includes a step of starting the examination from a known point or an anatomical mark such as a nipple or a sternum; moving the probe towards the area of interest and oscillating it thereabout while manually or automatically recording pressure and positioning data. Subsequent data analysis identifies the presence of a lesion, calculates its location relative to the probe, estimates the location of the probe relative to the anatomical landmark and finally calculates the location of the lesion relative to that anatomical landmark. The method allows repeating examinations over time with great accuracy as they all start from the same anatomical landmark. The probe includes provisions for easy hand grip or attaching to fingers of a patient, a cable connector or a wireless transmitter for transmitting the data out to a computer or another data analysis device, as well as manual data entry means allowing the patient herself to enter the positioning data.

An object information acquiring apparatus is used that includes; a measurement unit comprising a probe that receives acoustic waves from an object, and a position and attitude detector configured to detect at least three positions from among anatomical landmarks of the object; and an information processing device that acquires characteristic information on the interior of the object using the acoustic waves received by the probe.

An X-ray machine for imaging a breast of a female patient comprises a gantry with an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector, and a horizontally disposed patient table with a cut-out portion for accommodating a breast of the patient. The gantry is rigidly mechanically suspended from the patient table. The gantry is adapted to rotate about an approximately vertical rotational axis in continuous rotational movement for imaging the breast. The gantry is also adapted to be moved in a vertical direction during said the rotational movement.

An X-ray machine for imaging a breast of a female patient includes a patient table for accommodating the patient, an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector. In one embodiment, the X-ray machine may be designed as a spiral CT scanner having a rotatable gantry on which the X-ray tube and detector are mounted. The X-ray detector is inclined with respect to the X-ray tube, so that a central ray of a beam of rays emitted from the X-ray tube is perpendicularly incident on an active face of the detector. In one embodiment, the detector may be designed with a curvature, which reduces image artifacts by reducing path length differences between the central ray and the outer rays of the beam. This configuration provides particularly space saving X-ray machines, which at the same time, are of particularly high resolution.

The invention relates to the technical field of ultrasonic imaging equipment, and particularly discloses an ultrasonic transducer navigation system including a mechanical arm, a machine vision deviceand a control device. An ultrasonic transducer is fixed at the end of the mechanical arm, and the machine vision device is used for collecting a three-dimensional image of an object to be inspected inan inspection area capable of being covered by the ultrasonic transducer at the end of the mechanical arm. The control device is electrically connected with the control end of the mechanical arm andthe ultrasonic transducer, the control device guides the mechanical arm to move to a target inspection part according to the target inspection part and a three-dimensional diagram of the object to beinspected collected by the machine vision device and controls the ultrasonic transducer to perform scanning imaging on the target inspection part. For example, during a breast examination, an ultrasonic transducer module is moved through a supporting arm to a patient's breast for scanning. The invention also provides an ultrasonic imaging device including the navigation system. According to the ultrasonic transducer navigation system and the ultrasonic imaging device, full automatic scanning imaging can be performed on the target inspection part, and the automation degree is high.

The invention relates to an X-ray and ultrasound combined breast examination device and a fusion imaging method thereof. The breast examination device comprises a rack, a rotatable X-ray examination module, an ultrasonic examination module capable of moving and reciprocating, an upper compression board, a lower compression board and an opening and closing mechanism which can drive the upper compression board and the lower compression board to open and close. Target breasts are fixed and compressed at the position of the breast examination device, the X-ray examination module and the ultrasonic examination module are adopted for examination, the positions and deformation of the target breasts are the same, ray image data and ultrasonic image data of corresponding points are overlaid to form a new breast image, the new breast image has the characteristics of a breast X-ray image and a breast ultrasonic image and facilitates diagnosis performed by a doctor, and the diagnosis result is accurate; the required image can be obtained by switching the X-ray examination module and the ultrasonic examination module, equipment resources are saved, the target breast image can be obtained more rapidly, and the working efficiency of the doctor is improved.

A sectional radiographic apparatus for breast examination includes a detector ring with radiation detectors arranged arcuately for receiving a breast of a patient, each of the radiation detectors including a scintillator for converting radiation into light, and a photodetector for detecting the light, a moving device for moving the detector ring along a direction of a central axis of the detector ring relative to the breast of the patient, and a movement control device for controlling the moving device.

The invention discloses a portable multi-wavelength breast examination and physiotherapy instrument, which includes the instrument's main body and vibrating treatment head which is arranged on the top of the main body and is provided with detection light and physiotherapy light with various wavelength. The main body is provided with switch, mode switching button and intensity adjustment button. The mode switch button is connected with vibrating treatment head. The intense modulation button is connected with physiotherapy light. The portable Multi-wavelength Breast Examination and Physiotherapy Instrument has a compact structure and achieves multiple functions such as breast examination and physiotherapy and so on.

A radiographic apparatus for breast examination, comprising: a detector ring having detectors for detecting radiation being arranged in an arc shape; and a shield plate for absorbing radiation that is provided as to cover a side face of the detector ring perpendicular to a central axis of the detector ring, the shield plate having a thick portion that is thick in a central axis direction and a thin portion that is thin in the central axis direction.

A device combining magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography for a breast examination is revealed herein to comprise an air pressure source, a servo flow control module, a pedestal disposed under a breast accommodating hole of a breast MRI bed and having a bearing platform for bearing a PET scanner ring thereon, a non-metallic and non-magnetic pneumatic actuator disposed on the pedestal and connected with the servo flow control module, and a movable pulley having a first nylon rope whose one end connects to the bearing platform and the other end connects to a counterweight unit, wherein the bearing platform connects to a displacement measurement unit by a second nylon rope for receipt of a location information thereof and transmission of the same to the servo flow control module for controlling the opening of the servo flow control valve to change gas flows entering into the pneumatic actuator.

The present invention provides a breast screening user review management system and method. The method includes the steps of: obtaining the user's account information; sending a request to obtain the user's latest doctor's diagnosis result to the breast medical management platform according to the user's account information ; Receive the user's latest doctor's diagnosis result sent by the breast medical management platform; extract the mammary gland grading keyword from the doctor's diagnosis result, and determine the user's mammary gland examination according to the corresponding relationship between the preset mammary gland grading keyword and the mammary gland examination result level Result level: determine the user's reexamination date based on the current date, the user's mammary gland examination result level, and the preset corresponding relationship between the mammary gland examination result level and the reexamination plan; display the user's reexamination date. By implementing the present invention, users can generate review time through the Internet.

Diagnostic imaging system and method comprising a device for facilitating breast examinations, comprises: at least one hemispherical portion having a convex outer surface and a concave inner surface defining a containment chamber of a breast; means to wear said hemispherical portion positionable at least around the user's torso to hold the hemispherical portion on said breast; and a connecting tube associated with said hemispherical portion to put in fluid communication the containment chamber with a depressurisation source; the hemispherical portion being made of elastic material to be switchable between a compression condition of the breast and a release condition of the breast.

The invention discloses an arc light source infrared breast diagnostic apparatus probe, and relates to an accessory of medical apparatus and instruments. The probe comprises a probe body, wherein the front end of the probe body is connected with an infrared light source; the rear end of the probe body is connected with a connecting cable; the infrared light source comprises an arc light source board; a plurality of infrared luminescent tubes which are uniformly distributed are arranged in the arc light source board. The probe adopts the arc light source structure, a plurality of infrared LED (light-emitting diode) light sources form a light source, and the light source is uniform in light, and ensures that an infrared camera is clearer in imaging, so that the problem that images are not clear because of a single-point source during breast examination done by a doctor is solved, and the examination accuracy rate is improved.

The invention discloses a vest for breast examination and breast examination equipment. The vest comprises a one-piece vest body and a plurality of tightness adjusting structures. The back side of theone-piece vest body is open. Each tightness adjusting structure comprises a first connecting part, a second connecting part and a hasp, the first connecting part and the second connecting part are arranged at the left end and the right end of the back side respectively, the hasp is arranged between the first connecting part and the second connecting part, and the first connecting part and the second connecting part can be connected through the hasp. According to the invention, the shape of the breasts when the user lies down is stabilized by wearing the vest for the user, the vest body is arranged to be of the seamless one-piece structure, the influence of seams on ultrasonic radiography is prevented, and therefore the vest can assist an autonomous breast examination machine in breast detection of a lying user, and the problem that the detection result is influenced by breast shape collapse after the user lies down is solved. The back of the vest is open, and the size of the vest is adjusted through the tightness adjusting structures, so that the vest is convenient to wear.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a compression method, device and equipment for breast examination and a medium. The method comprises the following steps: applying gradually increased examination compression force to the mammary gland of a current user through a compression mechanism of a mammary gland machine; acquiring a face image of the current user in the compression process in real time through an image capturing device; obtaining the thickness of the mammary gland after being pressed; and automatically stopping compression based on the face image, the thickness after compression and a predetermined constraint condition. According to the technical scheme, the problems that in the patient examination process, operation completely depends on experience of doctors, the burden of the doctors is large, and the obtained examination results cannot meet clinical requirements are solved, and the effect of improving the accuracy and efficiency of disease examination is achieved.

The invention discloses a quantitative module analysis method for mammary gland examination images, which comprises the following steps: (1) data information entry; (2) drawing a composite histogram; (3) modifying icon types; (4) comparing with standard images; (5) Check tomographic comparison. The present invention performs quantitative module analysis on the scanning processing histogram of the breast, adopts the means of drawing a composite histogram, modifying the icon type, comparing with the standard map, and checking the section comparison, and finally can perform accurate quantitative analysis on breast diseases.

The invention provides a ultrasonic CT device, an image processing device, an image processing method, and a recording medium. In an ultrasonic CT device for breast examination, unevenness of an ultrasonic image due to a distribution of inclination angles of a breast is reduced. The distribution of the inclination angles of a surface of a subject in a contour of the subject is obtained from a tomographic image, and a signal level of a reception signal or a pixel value of the tomographic image is corrected using the distribution of the inclination angles.

The invention discloses a positioning frame for breast examination, which comprises a bed body, a mounting groove, a driving mechanism, a linkage mechanism, a placing groove, a rotating mechanism, a soft cushion, a control mechanism and a lithium battery. The positioning frame can adjust the state that two arms of a patient are lifted to be within the range required by medical staff; then the lifting of the two arms of the patient is controlled through the active driving force of the device, so that the feeling of soreness and swelling when the two arms of the patient are lifted is eliminated, and therefore, by using the device, the pain of the patient during examination is reduced, and the progress of examining the patient by medical staff is also improved.

The invention discloses a real-time remote infrared breast examination equipment system. The system comprises an examination equipment body, supporting columns are fixedly connected to the left side and the right side of the lower end of the examination equipment body, a collector is connected to the right side of the examination equipment body in a hanging mode, and mounting frames are fixedly connected to the left side and the right side of the upper end of the examination equipment body. And the opposite side of the mounting frame is rotationally connected with the same display. The visual angle of a doctor can be collected through a camera arranged on a display, collected visual angle data are processed through a DSP controller, then the DSP controller controls a motor, the motor drives a screw to rotate, a protruding block on the screw slides and moves on a guide rod, and the sliding movement of a convex block can further drive a connecting block at the lower end of the display to rotate and move, so that the view angle of the display can be finely adjusted, and the doctor can better know the breast examination condition of a patient through the collector in cooperation with the display during examination.

The invention provides a CT scanning system special for breast examination, which comprises a shell (3) and a CT frame (2) capable of performing linear motion relative to the shell (3) along a specific direction, and the CT frame (2) can realize exposure scanning in a circumferential static mode or a rotating mode; correspondingly, the shell (3) is provided with a hole-shaped structure penetratingthrough the ray plane, and at least one end of the hole-shaped structure is provided with an opening matched with the breast of a human body in shape and size. The CT scanning system special for breast examination can achieve high-quality three-dimensional imaging of human breasts. Correspondingly, the invention further provides a method for scanning the human breasts by using the CT scanning system, and the method is high in scanning speed and efficiency while high-quality three-dimensional imaging of the human breasts is achieved.

The present invention discloses a breast coil positioning scanning imaging method and relates to the technical field of medical detection devices. The breast coil positioning scanning imaging method comprises a supporting plate; a lower surface of the supporting plate is connected with a mounting plate; two fixing plates are slidably connected to an upper surface of the mounting plate; the fixingplates are rotationally connected with connecting shaft sleeves; upper surfaces of the fixing plates are connected with connecting plates through supporting rods; transmission shafts are in clearancefit with inner walls of the connecting shaft sleeves; rotating disks are connected to upper end surfaces of the transmission shafts; sliding groove channels are arranged in upper surfaces of the rotating disks in a circumference array; the sliding groove channels are obliquely formed outwards from centers of the rotating disks; a plurality of coil plates are hinged to lower surfaces of the connecting plates; the plurality of the coil plates are arrayed along a circumference of breast examination openings; and lower ends of the coil plates are connected with sliding pieces matched with the sliding groove channels through connecting columns. By adjusting positions of the two fixing plates and adjusting angles of the coil plates through the rotating disks, adaptability of the breast coils todifferent individual characteristics is improved, and problems that existing breast coils are poor in adaptability and imaging quality is affected are solved.

The invention discloses a qualitative module analysis method for breast examination images, comprising the following steps: (1) measurement mode; (2) window comparison mode qualitative; (3) magnification highlight mode qualitative; (4) contrast comparison mode qualitative; ( 5) Qualitative color scale comparison mode; (6) Parameter recording. By performing qualitative modular analysis on breast examination images, the present invention adopts the means of window comparison, magnification highlighting, comparison comparison, and color scale comparison, and finally can perform accurate qualitative analysis on breast diseases.

The invention discloses an adjustable posture pad special for cone beam breast CT. The adjustable posture pad is an air cushion body. The air cushion body comprises a chest position pad and a leg position pad, wherein the chest position pad is positioned on the same side as the leg position pad; the chest position pad is provided with a hollow mammary gland examination hole, the size of the mammary gland examination hole is matched with the size of a breast on one side of a human body, the mammary gland examination hole is positioned at the middle part of the chest position pad; the chest of asubject clings to the edge of the examination hole, the breast passes through the mammary gland examination hole and naturally droops into a cone beam mammary gland CT scanning cavity; and air volumeand temperature of air introduced into the chest position pad and the leg position pad are adjustable. According to the chest position pad disclosed by the invention, the body position is adjusted when a subject is subjected to breast examination scanning, and the one-sided chest position pad can be adjusted laterally when the one-sided breast is examined, so that the one-sided chest position ofthe subject is fixed and is suitable for examination scanning; and meanwhile, the posture pad solves the problem that the breast on the other side is compressed and feels uncomfortable when the subject is subjected to breast CT examination. The temperature of the air introduced into the posture pad can be adjusted, so that the emotion of the subject can be relieved, the movement in the inspectionprocess can be prevented, and the generation of artifacts can be prevented.