ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING A HIFU (HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND) FOCUSED IMAGE, AND METHOD FOR CREATING ULTRASONIC IMAGES BY USING SAME

摘要

The present invention relates to an ultrasonic imaging system including: a high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transmitting beam former transmitting, focusing, and delaying HIFU transmitting signals through frequencies which belong to both a frequency response band for an ultrasonic image transducer and that for a HIFU transducer; a HIFU transducer transmitting the transmitted/focused/delayed HIFU transmitting signals to a subject; an ultrasonic image transducer receiving the ultrasonic signals from the subject; an image receiving beam former receiving, focusing, and delaying the received ultrasonic signals to create synthetic beams; and an ultrasonic image creating unit creating ultrasonic images from the generated synthetic beams. According to the present invention, the focused location of HIFU energy may be previously recognized to prevent undesired parts from becoming overused by HIFU surgery.