Abstract: A scale accessory 102 includes a shelf 200 supported substantially coplanar with the weighing tray 150 of a scale 100. The shelf 200 extends a dimension of the weighing tray 150 and may be used to support a portion of the article to be weighed 550. A first portion 552 of the article to be weighed is supported on the weighing tray 150 and a second portion 554 of the article to be weighed is supported on the shelf 200 such that the weighing tray 150 only weighs the first portion 552. Proximate edges of the shelf 200 and the weighing tray 150 are separated by a slot 400 that forms a cutting or marking guide between the first portion 552 and the second portion 554. The scale accessory 102 allows a user to accurately weigh a portion of a large article such a fish or meat filet, mark a severing line 556 on the filet and then cut the filet along the severing line.

Abstract: The effect of ultrasound irradiation of a human or other animal body portion is enhanced by operating the body portion as a trapped mode resonator. The intensity and location of resonances within the body portion is controlled by controlling such variables as the amplitude, frequency and/or phase of the ultrasound irradiation. This minimizes the overall energy required to be applied to the body portion in order to achieve a desired localized intensity level.

Abstract: The effect of ultrasound irradiation of a human or other animal body portion is enhanced by operating the body portion as a trapped mode resonator. The intensity and location of resonances within the body portion is controlled by controlling such variables as the amplitude, frequency and/or phase of the ultrasound irradiation. This minimizes the overall energy required to be applied to the body portion in order to achieve a desired localized intensity level.

Abstract: An endoscope ultrasound probe for use with an ultrasound imaging system in transesophageal echo cardiography comprises a motorized positioning system which provides for automated control of an ultrasound transducer array. The positioning system employs an electric motor for rotating the array which is positioned in the distal end of the probe. A switch mechanism may be manipulated to provide power to actuate the motor. The motor is mechanically coupled to the array providing the capability to rotate the array to any angular position to provide a plurality of scan planes for obtaining a plurality of corresponding two-dimensional cross-sectional images. Further, the positioning system may comprise a position feedback mechanism coupled to the array for providing remote imaging system electronics with array position indications corresponding to each of a plurality of corresponding two-dimensional cross-sectional images.

Abstract: The base for an array of piezoelectric crystals contains tungsten particles that are compression-molded in a binder, the size of the particles at and near the surface on which the crystals are mounted being smaller than the size of the particles remote from the surface.

Abstract: An electrical cable having a shielding comprised of knit or knit-graded wire having metal coatings.