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US3818426A
US3818426A US00222578A US22257872A US3818426A US 3818426 A US3818426 A US 3818426A US 00222578 A US00222578 A US 00222578A US 22257872 A US22257872 A US 22257872A US 3818426 A US3818426 A US 3818426A
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  • This invention relates to an ultrasonic image recording system.
  • X-rays are still used practically exclusively at the present time to detect internal structures in human and animal tissue. Apart from the fact that the tissue is exposed to health risks due to high-energy radiation, the contrast of the optical images produced could be greatly improved upon.
  • X-rays An alternative to the use of X-rays is irradiation with ultrasonics, to which the different types of tissue are permeable to very different degrees and thus offer good contrast. This irradiation is also completely harmless provided the total radiation power is below the cavitation limit. Since the sound radiated by conventional ultrasonic sources is coherent, holographic recordings are possible, which enable the irradiated tissue to be viewed stereoscopically, and this is very important, for example, for detection of the position of carcinomas and tumors.
  • a device presently available for sonic image recording is the Sokoloff tube.
  • the front plate of this tube is a thin quartz disc.
  • ultrasonic waves impinging thereon produce a dipole pattern due to the piezoelectric effect, the pattern being distributed over the area of the plate in the form of an image and being capable of scanning by an electron beam.
  • a sound pattern distributed over an area can be converted into a sequence of electrical signals which can then be displayed as an image, for example, by means of a cathode ray tube.
  • the diameter of the quartz disc used is limited to about -6 cm, but it would be desirable to have available an image recording surface of linear dimensions of at least cm or above, for example, when it is required to observe a wider area of the human body.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to enable the image recording surface of an ultrasonic image recording system to be increased.
  • an ultrasonic image recording system including piezoelectric sound-sensitive means for exposure to a field of ultrasonic radiation to be imaged, in which system the piezoelectric means is in the form of a thin layer of piezoelectric material having charge-sensitive components distributed in an array on the layer of piezoelectric material and pick-up means provided for deriving from the charge-sensitive components electrical signals significant of the level of sound at corresponding points of the ultrasonic field.
  • the piezoelectric layer might comprise a coating deposited on a substrate and the charge-sensitive components could be field-effect transistors.
  • the pick-up means may include a crossbar arrangement including one group of parallel conductors connected to the sources of the transistors in respective columns of the array and another group of parallel conductors at right angles to the first group connected to the gates of the transistors in respective rows of the array.
  • FIG. I is a cross section showing a single image point of an image recording surface of a system embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an ultrasonic image recording system according to the present invention.
  • an ultrasonic image recording surface including a piezoelectric layer in the form of a coating 2 of a suitable material such as cadmium sulphide (CdS) disposed on a substrate 1 which might comprise a plastic foil.
  • a coating 2 of a suitable material such as cadmium sulphide (CdS) disposed on a substrate 1 which might comprise a plastic foil.
  • the thickness of coating 2 should be between l0 and 50 am.
  • the coating is polycrystalline, the individual crystallites being oriented with the c-axis (in whose direction there is the maximum piezo effect) perpendicular to the substrate 1.
  • An array or raster of thin film field-effect transistors are formed on the coating 2 by known vapor-coating processes.
  • One such transistor shown in FIG. 1 comprises a drain 3, a source 4, a further coating 5 of CdS and a gate 6.
  • the CdS coating 5 is about 1 pm thick, and the electrodes 3, 4 and 6 are some hundreds of Angstroms thick.
  • Ultrasonic radiation incident on the image recording surface produces periodically alternating dipole moments at the ultrasonic frequency in the CdS coating 2, and these modulate the current flow between the source and drain of each field-effect transistor.
  • An electrical signal significant of the sound pressure at an image point can be derived by applying suitable voltages simultaneously to the gate and source of the fieldeffect transistor at the image point while the drain is at a fixed potential.
  • the array of field-effect transistors is used to derive signals in succession from the image points of the image recording surface. As is illustrated in FIG.
  • the transistors 5' in the array can be scanned sequentially by a known crossbar arrangement, one group of parallel conductors 7 being connected to the source of the transistors in each column of the array and another group of parallel conductors 8 at right angles to the first group being conneced to the gates of each row of the array.
  • the transmission of scanning voltages from a potential source 12 from one source conductor to another and from one gate conductor to another is effected at the point or line frequency required for the particular application in which the system is used and could be implemented by, for example, a suitable timer 9 and commutators I0 and I].
  • the electrical output signal from the transistors is obtained as. a voltage signal at a resistor R situated in a line connecting the drains of all the transistors 5 to earth, is amplified (not shown) and converted to a visual image in a cathode ray tube (television display tube).
  • the thickness of the substrate 1 and of the CdS coating 2 should be such that a sound wave impinging from above produces an antinode in the CdS coating 2 and a node at the underside of the substrate ll.
  • An image recording system embodying the invention may be used both for the direct production of images of structures or, more advantageously, for producing ultrasonic holograms. This second alternative comes to mind because, as mentioned hereinbefore, ultrasonic waves are coherent due to their method of generation.
  • the coating had a resistance of more than 10 cm and was vapor-coated in the form of a piezoelectrically active coating.
  • An array of "X10 CdS field-effect transistors were formed on the coating in the form of a raster by a known process using a masking technique.
  • the image represented by the output electrical signal obtained from the system is reproduced in visual form in a conventional television unit.
  • the image sequency is at the maximum time acceptable in medicine, i.e., 1 second.
  • the system is suitable for ultrasonic image recording at an ultrasonic frequency of 10 MHz.
  • An ultrasonic image recording system comprising:
  • piezoelectric sound-sensitive means having a thin layer of piezoelectric material for exposure to a field of ultrasonic radiation to be imaged;
  • charge-sensitive component means distributed in an array on said layer of piezoelectric material
  • said piezoelectric layer comprises a coating deposited on a substrate.
  • a system according to claim 1 wherein said charge-sensitive component means are field-effect transistors.
  • said piezoelectric layer comprises cadmium sulphide and said charge-sensitive component means are cadmium sulphide thin-film field-effect transistors.
  • the pickup means includes crossbar arrangement means c0mprising a first group of parallel conductors connected to the transistor sources in respective columns of the array and a second group of parallel conductors at right angles to the first group connected to the transistor gates in respective rows of the array.

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US4089927A (en) * 1975-09-26 1978-05-16 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Strain sensor employing bi layer piezoelectric polymer
US4141021A (en) * 1977-02-14 1979-02-20 Varian Associates, Inc. Field effect transistor having source and gate electrodes on opposite faces of active layer
US4359767A (en) * 1980-03-17 1982-11-16 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Ultrasonic array
US4378510A (en) * 1980-07-17 1983-03-29 Motorola Inc. Miniaturized accelerometer with piezoelectric FET
US4740829A (en) * 1982-09-02 1988-04-26 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Semiconductor device having a thin layer comprising germanium atoms as a matrix with a restricted range of hydrogen atom concentration
US4767973A (en) * 1987-07-06 1988-08-30 Sarcos Incorporated Systems and methods for sensing position and movement
US4814842A (en) * 1982-05-13 1989-03-21 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Thin film transistor utilizing hydrogenated polycrystalline silicon
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US3475551A (en) * 1966-11-29 1969-10-28 Lockheed Aircraft Corp Solid state acoustic image converter
US3675472A (en) * 1968-12-12 1972-07-11 Nat Res Dev Apparatus and method for images of the interior structure of solid objects
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US4089927A (en) * 1975-09-26 1978-05-16 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Strain sensor employing bi layer piezoelectric polymer
US4141021A (en) * 1977-02-14 1979-02-20 Varian Associates, Inc. Field effect transistor having source and gate electrodes on opposite faces of active layer
US4359767A (en) * 1980-03-17 1982-11-16 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Ultrasonic array
US4378510A (en) * 1980-07-17 1983-03-29 Motorola Inc. Miniaturized accelerometer with piezoelectric FET
US4814842A (en) * 1982-05-13 1989-03-21 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Thin film transistor utilizing hydrogenated polycrystalline silicon
US4740829A (en) * 1982-09-02 1988-04-26 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Semiconductor device having a thin layer comprising germanium atoms as a matrix with a restricted range of hydrogen atom concentration
US4767973A (en) * 1987-07-06 1988-08-30 Sarcos Incorporated Systems and methods for sensing position and movement
US20050174014A1 (en) * 2002-06-06 2005-08-11 Christian Korden Adjustable filter and method for adjusting the frequency

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