Patents by Inventor Yigang Du

Yigang Du has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210007706
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a flow imaging processing method, which may include determining flow imaging parameters, where the flow imaging parameters include a sound speed for calculation, a center frequency of the transmitting pulse for exciting a probe and a imaging depth; obtaining a velocity measurement range; and determining the first target number of the different transmit angles according to the sound speed for calculation, the center frequency of the transmitting pulse, the imaging depth and the velocity measurement range. The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide an ultrasound imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Wei FAN, Lanxi XIANG, Yuan WANG, Yingying SHEN, Kai WANG, Donghai QIN
  • Publication number: 20190365354
    Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow parameter displaying method, comprises: acquiring, by means of a probe (1), an ultrasonic signal from an object to be scanned (S100); acquiring, according to the ultrasonic signal, a plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow within the object to be scanned (S200); extracting the plurality of velocities and directions of blood flow (S300); quantifying the dispersion of the plurality of velocities and directions of the blood flow extracted (S400); and displaying the quantization result of the dispersion (S500). The present invention provides a method for quantifying and evaluating the direction of the motion of blood flow, and provides a better perspective of observation for a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Yigang DU
  • Publication number: 20190314000
    Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Shuangshuang LI
  • Publication number: 20180192988
    Abstract: An ultrasound grayscale imaging system includes a probe; a transmitting circuit which excites the probe to transmit multiple groups of non-focused ultrasound beams to a flow; a receiving circuit which receives echoes to obtain multiple groups of non-focused ultrasound echo signals; a signal processing unit which obtains flow data according to the multiple groups of non-focused ultrasound echo signals; an image processing unit which obtains B mode ultrasound image sequence according to the flow data; and a display device which displays the B mode ultrasound image sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Yigang DU
  • Publication number: 20180146952
    Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow imaging display method and an ultrasonic imaging system. The system comprises: a probe (1); a transmitting circuit (2), configured to excite the probe (1) to transmit an ultrasonic beam to a scanning target; a receiving circuit (4) and a beam forming module (5), configured to receive an echo of the ultrasonic beam to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal; a data processing module (9), configured to obtain, according to the ultrasonic echo signal, blood flow velocity vector information and Doppler blood flow velocity information about a target point in the scanning target and at least part of ultrasonic images of the scanning target, and superposing the ultrasonic images and the Doppler blood flow velocity information to form a Doppler color blood flow graph; and a display (8), configured to contrastively display the blood flow velocity vector information and the Doppler color blood flow graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Rui Fan, Yong Li
  • Publication number: 20180085088
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ultrasound flow imaging method and ultrasound imaging system. The system may include a probe, a transmitting circuit which may excite the probe to transmit volume ultrasound beams to the scanning target, a receiving circuit 4, and a beam forming unit which may receive the echoes of the volume ultrasound beams and obtain the volume ultrasound echo signals, a data processing unit which may obtain the flow velocity vector information of the target point in the scanning target and the three-dimensional ultrasound image data based on the volume ultrasound echo signals, and a stereoscopic display device which may display the three-dimensional ultrasound image data to form the spatial stereoscopic image of the scanning target and superimposes the flow velocity vector information in the spatial stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Rui FAN
  • Publication number: 20170071576
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasound imaging method and system, the method may include transmitting a plurality of plane wave ultrasound beams to a scan target and acquiring corresponding plane wave echo signals; transmitting focused ultrasound beams to the scan target and acquiring corresponding focused beam echo signals; acquiring a plurality of velocity components of a target point in the scan target using the plane wave echo signals, and acquiring velocity vectors of the target point according to the plurality of velocity components; acquiring an ultrasound image of the scan target using the focused beam echo signals; and displaying the velocity vector and the ultrasound image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yigang DU, Rui FAN, Yong LI
  • Publication number: 20140050048
    Abstract: A method includes generating an ultrasound image based on the harmonic components in the received echoes using multi-stage beamforming and data generated therefrom. An ultrasound imaging system (100, 200) includes a transducer array (108) including a plurality of transducer elements configured to emit ultrasound signals and receive echoes generated in response to the emitted ultrasound signals. The ultrasound imaging system further includes transmit circuitry (110) that generates a set of pulses that actuate a set of the plurality of transducer elements to emit ultrasound signals. The ultrasound imaging system further includes receive circuitry (112), including a first beamformer (122) configured to process the received echoes, generating intermediate scan lines. Memory (126) stores the generated intermediate scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: B-K MEDICAL APS
    Inventors: Jorgen Arendt Jensen, Yigang Du, Henrik Jensen