US 11,717,267 B2
Hollow cylindrical ultrasound imaging system for analyzing body composition and operation method of the ultrasound imaging system
Jae Youn Hwang, Daegu (KR); Chun Yeol You, Seoul (KR); and Moon Hwan Lee, Gyeongsan-si (KR)
Assigned to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daegu (KR)
Filed by DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daegu (KR)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/458,737.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0113043 (KR), filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071598 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/483 (2013.01) [A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/54 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound imaging system comprising:
a scan device comprising a cylindrical body having an opening through which an object is insertable;
an ultrasonic probe connected to a part of the scan device;
a controller configured to control the ultrasonic probe to emit a transmission ultrasonic signal to the object at multiple positions at the scan device, and receive a reflection ultrasonic signal reflected from the object; and
an image processor configured to generate multiple two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound images based on reflection ultrasonic signals received at the multiple positions at the scan device, respectively, and generate a 3D ultrasound image based on the multiple 2D ultrasound images,
wherein the scan device further comprises a scan module configured to move the ultrasonic probe,
wherein the scan module comprises:
a plurality of first frames disposed along a circular circumference of the cylindrical body;
a second frame which is linear and is connected to one point of each of the plurality of first frames;
a first motor configured to move the ultrasonic probe along each of the plurality of first frames; and
a second motor configured to move the ultrasonic probe along the second frame;
wherein the controller is configured to:
control the second motor to move the ultrasonic probe to a first position among a plurality of positions of the second frame;
control the first motor to move the ultrasonic probe at the first position in a first direction along a first frame corresponding to the first position among the plurality of first frames;
control the second motor to move the ultrasonic probe to a second position among the plurality of positions of the second frame, the second position being different from the first position; and
control the first motor to move the ultrasonic probe at the second position in a second direction along a first frame corresponding to the second position among the plurality of first frames, the second direction being different from the first direction.