Pulsed stroboscopic visualizer to synchronously monitor the microballoon under insonification

Author

Takeuchi, Yoshio

Author_Institution

GE-Yokogawa Med. Syst. Ltd., Hino

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

1645

Abstract

Submicrosecond pulsed laser diode stroboscopic synchronous illuminator combined with microscopic CCD TV camera is devised as dedicated visualization system to monitor microbubble/microballoon contrast agent under pulsed insonification. It successfully monitored cracking and dying process of microballoon, however, due to system timing accuracy problem the submicrosecond snapshot photography on the exact instance of cracking is yet to be, but shortly, performed

Keywords

CCD image sensors; biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; high-speed optical techniques; laser applications in medicine; optical microscopes; photographic applications; stroboscopes; synchronisation; balloon cracking process; balloon dying process; contrast agent; electronic shutter; medical safety; microballoon; microscopic CCD TV camera; pulse insonification; pulsed stroboscopic visualizer; submicrosecond pulsed LD stroboscopic illuminator; submicrosecond snapshot photography; synchronous monitor; timing accuracy problem; Accuracy; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Diode lasers; Microscopy; Monitoring; Optical pulses; TV; Timing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Sendai

ISSN

1051-0117

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4095-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1998.765261

Filename

765261