US 12,257,461 B2
Ultrasound treatment head and ultrasound imaging and treatment method using same
Keon Ho Son, Seongnam-si (KR); and Young Bok Yu, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to IMGT CO., LTD., Seongnam-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/923,510
Filed by IMGT CO., LTD., Seongnam-si (KR)
PCT Filed May 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/005634
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 4, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/225368, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0055000 (KR), filed on May 8, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0144041 (KR), filed on Nov. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0191160 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61N 7/02 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 7/02 (2013.01) [A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0091 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound treatment head comprising:
a housing configured to accommodate components of the ultrasound treatment head;
a structure including a treatment transducer and an imaging probe positioned at a center of the treatment transducer, wherein the treatment transducer and the imaging probe are physically aligned;
an aligner configured to physically align the imaging probe and the treatment transducer within the structure, including a case for accommodating at least a portion of the structure;
a first mechanism configured to steer mechanical movement of an entire structure including the treatment transducer and the imaging probe in the housing; and
a second mechanism configured to steer mechanical movement of either the imaging probe or the treatment transducer alone in the structure,
wherein the first mechanism includes:
a structure rotation mechanism configured to steer rotation of the entire structure including the treatment transducer and the imaging probe, by a pulley or a gear horizontally fixed to an upper end of the structure to rotate the imaging probe and the treatment transducer together; and
a structure tilting mechanism configured to steer tilting movement of the entire structure including the treatment transducer and the imaging probe, by a pulley or a gear vertically fixed to one side surface of the structure to tilt the imaging probe and the treatment transducer together,
wherein the second mechanism includes:
an imaging probe rotation mechanism that steers rotation of the imaging probe alone, by a pulley or a gear horizontally fixed to the imaging probe in the structure.