Patent Document ID: 20110204893
Application ID: 13099250
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An elasticity and visco-elasticity measurement apparatus-based treatment apparatus comprising: a treatment transducer having at least one oscillator; a treatment transmitter circuit for supplying drive signals to the at least one oscillator of the treatment transducer; a diagnosis transducer having at least one oscillator; a diagnosis transmitter circuit for supplying drive signals to the at least one oscillator of the diagnosis transducer; a receiver circuit for receiving echo signals outputted from the at least one oscillator of the diagnosis transducer and performing phase matching processing on the echo signals; data processing means for calculating at least one of a displacement, a displacement vector, displacement vector components, a strain, a strain tensor, strain tensor components, a strain rate, a strain rate tensor, strain rate tensor components, a velocity, a velocity vector, velocity vector components, an acceleration, an acceleration vector, acceleration vector components, elastic constants, visco elastic constants, and a density in a ROI (region of interest) based on the echo signals; output means for outputting at least one of a treatment effect and degeneration information on a part including lesion based on the calculated at least one of the displacement, the displacement vector, the displacement vector components, the strain, the strain tensor, the strain tensor components, the strain rate, the strain rate tensor, the strain rate tensor components, the velocity, the velocity vector, the velocity vector components, the acceleration, the acceleration vector, the acceleration vector components, the elastic constants, the visco elastic constants, and the density; a controller for controlling the treatment transmitter circuit, the diagnosis transmitter circuit, the receiver circuit, the data processing means, and the output means; and input means to be used for inputting commands and conditions into the controller; wherein the controller has a function of deforming the ROI based on the commands and the conditions, and a function of controlling the treatment transmitter circuit to control at least one treatment ultrasound beam transmitted from the treatment transducer based on the commands, the conditions, and the degeneration information.