Patent ID: 6616618
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
Method of visualizing the orientation of therapeutic sound waves on to a region to be treated or processed, comprising the steps of:providing a display unit including a screen, symbolically displaying the orientation of the therapeutic sound waves in relation to the region to be treated on said screen, perspectively displaying the sound wave source and the region in space, through which the sound waves are propagating, as well as the region to be treated or processed on said screen by allocation of virtual three-dimensional figures, and characterized in that the representation reproduces the real position of said sound source and said treatment site in a perspectively correct form so as to create a correct impression of the size and the spacing of the figures, that for orientation onto the treatment site the figure corresponding to the sound wave field moves in exactly the same manner as in reality, and that the perspective view varies with the correct movement when the site or the orientation of the sound wave source and/or the treatment site and/or the site or the orientation of the screen is varied.