CN103845082A - Device and method for ultrasonically scanning breasts of patients - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a device and a method for ultrasonically scanning the breasts of patients. The device for ultrasonically scanning the breasts of the patients comprises an ultrasonic sensor, a coupling assembly and a support frame. The coupling assembly comprises a rigid frame and a flexible bag, the flexible bag comprises a first portion, a second portion and an inlet, the first portion is opened by the rigid frame to provide a scanning plane, the sensor can rotate on the scanning plane, the second portion is used for accommodating sonic transparent liquid, and can deform so as to cling to the to-be-scanned breasts and press the to-be-scanned breasts, and the inlet is used for leading the sonic transparent liquid into the second portion. The support frame comprises fixing portions and a rotary portion, the fixing portions are connected onto the rigid frame of the coupling assembly, and the rotary portion is rotatably assembled on the fixing portions and is used for supporting the sensor and driving the sensor to rotate on the scanning plane.
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Technical field
A kind of ultrasonic scanner of relate generally to of the present invention and a kind of method with ultrasonic scanner scanning breast.
Background technology
Ultrasonic breast screening technology is to adopt the echo signal of the high frequency sound wave that sends of detector to produce breast image.In scanning process, send sound wave with sensor and pass through breast tissue, these sound waves are made different reactions and beam back signal to sensor dissimilar breast tissue, and these signals are transferred to the image that is used for creating a breast tissue in computer.In breast examination, the ultrasonic general supplementary means as Mammogram and physical examination, is used for assessing the abnormal of certain type, such as, the lump of finding in physical examination or in X-ray examination.It can help to determine that lump is optimum liquid cyst or the entity pathological changes that need further diagnose.In addition, the overall region that it can show breast, comprises the part near thorax, and this is difficult to be checked through in X-ray examination.Because X-ray examination has obvious limitation to dense form breast, therefore ultrasonic breast screening checks to have a meaning being even more important before to the breast cancer operation of dense form breast.In addition, because ultrasonic examination is painless, low price, and radiationless, there are many advantages with respect to other inspection method, therefore it plays a part more and more important in current breast lesion Checking and diagnosis.
In traditional ultrasonic breast screening technology, by move a little sensor along breast surface, breast is scanned, in its process, related sensor need to highly depend on doctor's operation conventionally with respect to the movement of breast, and checking process is very time-consuming.United States Patent (USP) 6,117,080 has inquired into and utilizes an auxiliary device to carry out auxiliary examination, and this auxiliary device comprises that the water bag of dress water of the breast profile of can fitting and one can allow scanning mirror thereon along the semirigid scanning of a surface of linear path movement.But the movement of scanning mirror still needs to rely on doctor's operation and more consuming time.In addition, owing to not having structure to support fixing described auxiliary device, to prevent it along with the slip of scanning mirror on described semirigid scanning of a surface and to produce movement, therefore described auxiliary device and on scanning of a surface may in scanning process, produce mobile, mobile can exerting an influence to image quality like this should be avoided as far as possible.
Summary of the invention
The present invention relates to a kind of ultrasonic scanner.This ultrasonic scanner comprises sonac, coupling assembly and support.Wherein, described coupling assembly comprises rigid border and flexible pouch, thereby this flexible pouch the Part I that strutted to provide a plane of scanning motion to allow described sensor rotate thereon by described rigid border is provided, is used for holding the liquid that sound is transparent and can deforms to fit and be pressed in supramammary Part II to be scanned and be used for to the entrance of described Part II introducing sound transparency liquid.Described support comprises fixed part and rotating part, and wherein fixed part is connected in the rigid border of described coupling assembly, and rotating part is rotatably assembled in described fixed part, is used for supporting described sensor driving sensor to rotate on the described plane of scanning motion.
The invention still further relates to a kind of ultrasound scan method.This scan method comprises provides a kind of ultrasonic scanner, and this ultrasonic scanner comprises sonac, coupling assembly and support.Wherein, described coupling assembly comprises rigid border and flexible pouch, thereby this flexible pouch the Part I that strutted to provide a plane of scanning motion to allow described sensor rotate thereon by described rigid border is provided, is used for holding the liquid that sound is transparent and can deforms to fit and be pressed in supramammary Part II to be scanned and be used for to the entrance of described Part II introducing sound transparency liquid.Described support comprises fixed part and rotating part, and wherein fixed part is connected in the rigid border of described coupling assembly, and rotating part is rotatably assembled in described fixed part, is used for supporting described sensor driving sensor to rotate on the described plane of scanning motion.This scan method also comprises: to the transparent liquid of input sound in described flexible pouch and flexible pouch is fitted on breast; And drive described sensor on the described plane of scanning motion, to rotate with scanning breast.
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Be described for embodiments of the invention in conjunction with the drawings, the present invention may be better understood, in the accompanying drawings:
Schematic diagram in Fig. 1 has shown a kind of exemplary ultrasonic breast screening device.
Schematic diagram in Fig. 2 has shown the ultrasonic breast screening device shown in Fig. 1 from another angle.
Schematic diagram in Fig. 3 has shown that the flexible pouch in the ultrasonic breast screening device shown in Fig. 1 is snugly pressed in situation on breast to be scanned.
Fig. 4 has shown a series of plane of scanning motion profiles that use the ultrasonic breast screening device shown in Fig. 1 to obtain.
Detailed description of the invention
Below will be described in detail the specific embodiment of the present invention.For fear of too much unnecessary details, in following content, will not be described in detail existing structure or function.
The language of approximation used herein can be used for quantitative expression, shows can allow quantity to have certain variation in the situation that not changing basic function.Therefore, be not limited to this accurate numerical value itself with the numerical value that the language such as " approximately ", " left and right " are revised.In certain embodiments, " approximately " represents to allow the numerical value of its correction to change in positive and negative 10 (10%) scope, such as, what " about 100 " represented can be any numerical value between 90 to 110.In addition,, in the statement of " about the first numerical value is to second value ", revise two numerical value of the first and second numerical value approximately simultaneously.In some cases, approximation language may be relevant with the precision of gauge.
Outside definition, technology used herein and scientific terminology have the identical meanings of generally understanding with those skilled in the art of the invention.Term used herein " first ", " second " etc. do not represent any order, quantity or importance, and just for distinguishing a kind of element and another kind of element.And " one " or " one " does not represent the restriction of quantity, but represent to exist the relevant item of.
Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 have shown according to a kind of ultrasonic breast screening device 100 one embodiment of the invention from two different directions.This device 100 comprises sonac 102 and coupling assembly 104, and this coupling assembly can fit in breast to be scanned well, and provides a scanning plane surface to allow described sensor 102 rotate thereon.Described coupling assembly 104 comprise one can be used to receive and hold the liquid that sound is transparent, as water, flexible pouch 106.The Part I 108 of this flexible pouch 106 is strutted by a rigid border 112, and this rigid border 112, as take-up device, struts 108 tensions of the Part I of described flexible pouch.Under the pulling force effect of this rigid border 112, the Part I 108 of described flexible pouch is evened up, and can bear and apply the certain force on it and do not produce obvious stretching and distortion.Like this, described Part I 108 can bear the power that comes from thereon the sensor rotating, thereby can be used as allowing the rotation sweep face of sensor 102.The Part II 110 of described flexible pouch 106 is used for receiving and holding the liquid that sound is transparent.The gravity of liquid produces a downward pulling force, can make described Part II 110 be pressed on breast to be scanned, and the mobility of liquid makes the Part II 110 that liquid is housed to adapt to different udder shapes and size by distortion.Described flexible pouch 106 can have liquid inlet (not shown), is used for the transparent liquid of introducing sound.In certain embodiments, described liquid inlet is positioned at the Part II 110 of described flexible pouch 106.
Described flexible pouch 106 can be the soft flaky material by single piece type, and as thin film is made, described like this first and second parts 108 and 110 each other one are extended.In certain embodiments, described rigid border 112 is an annular frame that can apply to described Part I 108 radial pull.In some specific embodiments, described annular frame has a narrow annular channel that can allow flexible pouch 106 therefrom pass through, and make described Part I 108 be positioned at described annular frame, and Part II 110 hangs down from described annular frame.Also other shape of rigid border 112.
The Part I of described flexible pouch 106 and Part II can be made with identical or different sound transparent material." sound is transparent " used herein refers to the material that acoustic impedance is high unlike water.The nonrestrictive example of the material of suitable first and (or) the Part II that are used for making flexible pouch 106 comprises plastic polyurethane (thermoplastic polyurethanes, TPU).The transparent liquid of sound filling in described flexible pouch can be water.In certain embodiments, for caused the acoustic resistance by flexible pouch 106 ultrasonic insertion loss is reduced as far as possible, the thickness of described flexible pouch is less than 3 centimetres.
Described device 100 further comprises support 114, is used for driving described sensor 102 to rotate on the plane of scanning motion 108.More appropriately, described support 114 also can be supported described sensor 102, makes it near even touching the described plane of scanning motion 108 but at least its whole weight not being placed in to the described plane of scanning motion 108.In certain embodiments, described support 114 comprises fixed part 116 and a rotating part 118 being rotatably assembled on described fixed part 116 in the rigid border 112 that is connected to coupling assembly 104.Described rotating part 118 supports described sensor 102 and drives it on the plane of scanning motion 108, to rotate.In certain embodiments, the relatively described fixed part 116 of the above rotating part 118 of other direction outside the direction of rotation of described rotating part 118 is Immobile, and therefore it can hold on sensor 102 sensor is not applied to weight on the described plane of scanning motion 108.In certain embodiments, described sensor 102 is to be removably assembled on described rotating part 118, like this, just described sensor 102 can take off from described rotating part 118, in hand-held mode to other region, as scanned in Fu Ru region, oxter.Described rigid border 112 can be assembled on the fixed part 116 of described support by detachable or non-removable mode.
In illustrated embodiment, the rotating part 118 of described sensor 102 and support is assembled in a certain way, and described sensor 102 can be rotated by the axis of the geometric center of the plane of scanning motion 108 with the direction perpendicular to the described plane of scanning motion 108 around one.Especially, described rotating part 118 comprises that described sensor 102 rotates around described power transmission shaft 120 along a power transmission shaft 120 that vertically direction at the center by described circular scan plane is extended.In illustrated embodiment, because described sensor 102 is to be assembled into described rotating part 118 on the position of its longitudinal one end, therefore in rotary course, described sensor 102 longitudinally on the length limit 124 that is L near or contact the described plane of scanning motion 108.Therefore, by driving described sensor 102 power transmission shafts 120 to rotate a circle, can be on the described plane of scanning motion 108 an inswept radius equal the border circular areas of the longitudinal length L of described sensor 102.By controlling the length of described sensor 102, make its radius that is greater than breast to be scanned, described device 100 can scan the whole volume of breast.In certain embodiments, the length L of described sensor 102 at approximately 6.3 centimetres the scope between to 7 centimetres.
Further, described device 100 also can comprise a driving device, as electromotor (not shown), be used for driving the rotating part 118 of described support 114 to promote described sensor 102 and rotate.It is upper that described device 100 can hang on a cantilever (not shown), thereby can be by the fixed part of described support 116 is fixed on described cantilever described device 100 is hung on cantilever.In certain embodiments, described cantilever can make described device 100 along continuous straight runs and vertical direction move with respect to breast to be scanned.
In use, can before or after being placed on breast to be scanned, described flexible pouch 106 in described flexible pouch 106, pass into the liquid that sound is transparent by liquid inlet.According to specific circumstances, described flexible pouch 106 can filled with fluid or is only filled partially liq.In certain embodiments, can control the volume of the sound transparency liquid in described flexible pouch 106, make the Part I of described flexible pouch, be that the plane of scanning motion 108 is positioned as close to breast, thereby reduce the distance between the described plane of scanning motion and breast, to reduce to greatest extent the insertion loss of sonac as far as possible.In some specific embodiments, the control of the volume of the sound transparency liquid in described flexible pouch 106 can be by inputting more sound transparency liquid and (or) realizing from the mode of extruding part sound transparency liquid in flexible pouch in flexible pouch.
As shown in Figure 3, in illustrated embodiment, the shape that the flexible pouch 106 of sound transparency liquid is housed is similar to the bowl of a back-off, is pressed in downwards on the patient's who lies low breast 202, and in the flexibility of described flexible pouch 106 and bag, the mobility of liquid makes the profile of its breast of can fitting.
By described sensor 102 is rotated a circle around central shaft on the plane of scanning motion 108, can scan whole breast.For auxiliary described sensor 102 rotates, and the acoustical coupling providing, can on the described plane of scanning motion 108, coat acoustic couplant.Due to described sensor 102 and the plane of scanning motion 108 have been carried out to proper arrangement, between sensor 102 and the plane of scanning motion 108, can not produce unnecessary movement.In certain embodiments, in operating process, the rigid border 112 of coupling assembly 104 and (or) the fixed part of support (parts 116 shown in Fig. 1 and 2) are stated in available hand steered residence, further prevent unnecessary movement.
In certain embodiments, can between flexible pouch and breast to be scanned, place disposable thin film, to avoid described flexible pouch directly to contact breast, guarantee safety and sanitation.Between breast and described disposable thin film, and can coat acoustic couplant between described disposable thin film and flexible pouch, with the acoustical coupling providing.
As shown in Figure 4, described sensor obtains a series of breast images as represented in plane of scanning motion profile 302 in the process of rotation sweep breast, and volume imagery engineering for these images (volume renderingengine) is processed, and changes into volumetric image.
The present invention can summarize with other the concrete form without prejudice to spirit of the present invention or principal character.Therefore, no matter from which point, above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention all can only think explanation of the present invention can not limit the present invention, scope of the present invention is to be defined by claims, instead of defined by above-mentioned, therefore, any change in implication and the scope suitable with claims of the present invention, all should think to be included in the scope of claims.
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1. a ultrasonic scanner, it comprises:
Sonac;
Coupling assembly, it comprises:
Rigid border, and
Flexible pouch, thus it the Part I that strutted to provide a plane of scanning motion to allow described sensor rotate thereon by described rigid border is provided, is used for holding the liquid that sound is transparent and can deforms to fit and be pressed in supramammary Part II to be scanned and be used for to the entrance of described Part II introducing sound transparency liquid;
Support, it comprises:
Fixed part, is connected in the rigid border of described coupling assembly, and
Rotating part, is rotatably assembled in described fixed part, is used for supporting described sensor driving sensor to rotate on the described plane of scanning motion.
2. device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said flexible pouch is made up of flexible film.
3. device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said flexible film is made up of plastic polyurethane.
4. device as claimed in claim 1, the first and second parts of wherein said flexible pouch are to be made up of identical material.
5. device as claimed in claim 1, the first and second parts of wherein said flexible pouch are made from a variety of materials.
6. device as claimed in claim 1, the thickness of wherein said flexible pouch is less than approximately 3 centimetres.
7. device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rigid border is circular.
8. device as claimed in claim 1, the rigid border of wherein said coupling assembly is removably assembled in the fixed part of described support.
9. device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sensor can disassemble from the rotating part of described support, so that it is secondary newborn to scan oxter by hand-held mode.
10. device as claimed in claim 1, it further comprises that rotating part for driving described support is to promote the electromotor of described sensor rotation.
11. devices as claimed in claim 1, the rotating part of wherein said sensor and described support is assembled in a certain way, to drive described sensor to rotate by the axis of the geometric center of the described plane of scanning motion with the direction perpendicular to the described plane of scanning motion around one.
12. devices as claimed in claim 1, the rotating part of wherein said support comprises that described sensor rotates around described power transmission shaft along a power transmission shaft that vertically direction of the geometric center by the described plane of scanning motion is extended.
13. devices as claimed in claim 1, the rotating part of wherein said support can drive described transducing to rotate with an inswept length taking sensor on the described plane of scanning motion as the border circular areas of radius.
14. devices as claimed in claim 13, the length of wherein said sensor approximately 6.3 centimetres to 7.0 centimetres between.
15. 1 kinds of ultrasound scan method, it comprises:
A kind of ultrasonic scanner is provided, and it comprises:
Sonac;
Coupling assembly, it comprises rigid border and flexible pouch, can deform to fit and is pressed in supramammary Part II to be scanned and is used for to the entrance of described Part II introducing sound transparency liquid thereby wherein the Part I that strutted to provide a plane of scanning motion to allow described sensor rotate thereon by described rigid border is provided this flexible pouch, be used for holding the liquid that sound is transparent; And
Support, it comprises fixed part and rotating part, wherein said fixed part is connected in the rigid border of described coupling assembly, and described rotating part is rotatably assembled in described fixed part, is used for supporting described sensor driving sensor to rotate on the described plane of scanning motion;
To the transparent liquid of input sound in described flexible pouch and flexible pouch is fitted on breast;
Drive described sensor on the described plane of scanning motion, to rotate with scanning breast.
16. methods as claimed in claim 15, it further comprises the volume of controlling the sound transparency liquid in described flexible pouch, makes the Part I of described flexible pouch near breast.
17. methods as claimed in claim 15, it further comprises in described flexible pouch inputs more sound transparency liquid and (or) extruding part sound transparency liquid from described flexible pouch.
18. methods as claimed in claim 15 further comprised on breast and cover disposable thin film before described flexible pouch is fitted on breast.
19. methods as claimed in claim 18, it is further included between breast and described disposable thin film and between described disposable thin film and flexible pouch and smears acoustic couplant.
20. the method for claim 1, it is further included in the fixed part of stating support in the process of described sensor rotation with hand steered residence.
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