EP0421290A1 - Transducteur ultrasonore d'ondes de choc - Google Patents

Transducteur ultrasonore d'ondes de choc Download PDF

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EP0421290A1
EP0421290A1 EP90118644A EP90118644A EP0421290A1 EP 0421290 A1 EP0421290 A1 EP 0421290A1 EP 90118644 A EP90118644 A EP 90118644A EP 90118644 A EP90118644 A EP 90118644A EP 0421290 A1 EP0421290 A1 EP 0421290A1
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  • the invention relates to an ultrasonic shock wave transducer for use in lithotripsy, hyperthermia and the like, which sends ultrasonic shock waves generated by it to the calculus or tissue to be destroyed.
  • Dome-shaped or planar transducers in which electronic (DE-OS 3119295) or acoustic focusing of the ultrasonic waves takes place, are used in medicine to disintegrate concrements located in body cavities, to destroy tissue and the like.
  • Ultrasonic shock waves of the type mentioned generally serve their purpose satisfactorily with regard to the first application of the ultrasonic shock waves. So is a sufficiently large concretions are very likely to be destroyed during the first treatment. Often a number of smaller fragments remain, which in turn have to be destroyed. The effort required for this is considerable because each fragment is the subject of a post-treatment.
  • the object of the present invention to further develop an ultrasonic shock wave transducer so that the probability of hit of the ultrasonic shock waves, in particular for smaller fragments or stones, is increased; faster destruction of piles of smaller objects is to be made possible.
  • the likelihood of being hit is thus increased by a targeted enlargement of the focus area.
  • the ultrasonic shock wave transducer according to the invention allows the bundling of the energy to at least two points on a preselected arbitrarily curved space Line.
  • the disadvantages of the theoretical approach are avoided.
  • the transducer focuses the energy of the ultrasound shock waves on an infinite number of points, so that there is a self-contained space-curved line. If the space-curved line is selected as a circular ring, an annular focus region accordingly results in this exemplary embodiment.
  • each planar and essentially dome-shaped transducer can be designed in the manner described.
  • the transducer itself is designed as the transducer directing the ultrasound shock waves generated by it, it has a rotationally symmetrical shape with a bowl-shaped cross-section with a diffusely reflecting base.
  • the focus area will be a circular ring.
  • the transducer as the ultrasonic shock waves generated by it, can itself be constructed on the concretions or tissue-directing transducers in such a way that it consists of several individual segments, each with a focus, which lie on the imaginary arbitrarily curved line. If the individual segments are segments of a spherical cap, the individual foci of the segments will lie on an imaginary circular ring around the main transducer axis.
  • This embodiment can be further developed in that the individual segments can be moved in translation in one plane with respect to the main axis of the converter. If the example is used again, that the individual segments are spherical segments, then the diameter becomes of the circular ring on which the individual foci lie, enlarge if all individual segments are moved apart to the same extent. It will decrease accordingly if the individual segments are moved closer together to the same extent without overlapping. But even an overlap of the individual sound cones is conceivable.
  • a further adjustment possibility of the arbitrarily curved space, but given by the specific design of the transducer, is provided in a further development of the transducer consisting of individual segments if the individual segments are arranged so that they can be pivoted at an angle with respect to the main axis of the transducer.
  • the diameter of the imaginary circular ring on which the individual foci lie will increase if all segments are pivoted away from the main converter axis by the same angle.
  • the transducer is provided with an acoustic lens on its radiation surface, which has several acoustic foci.
  • this lens is formed in one piece and is rotationally symmetrical and its thickness increases steadily from the edge of the transducer to the center thereof, the transducer will have an annular focus area.
  • All of the exemplary embodiments shown can be, for example, mosaic-like in order to generate the ultrasonic shock waves piezoceramic elements. However, this will not be discussed further below.
  • the known transducer 16 has a focus 15, idealized as a point, on which the ultrasonic shock waves are bundled.
  • the focus 15 is aligned with the object to be destroyed during the application of the ultrasonic shock waves, so that both are coincident.
  • the converter 1 is rotationally symmetrical in shape and has a planar base 1 in the center.
  • the transducer 1 In the area of the planar base 4, the transducer 1 has no transducer elements, for example piezoelectric elements such as on the radiation surfaces 2.
  • the transducer 1 emits a rotationally symmetrical sound field. Due to its shape, it focuses the energy of the ultrasonic shock waves on an infinite number of points that lie on a closed, space-curved line 3 about its main axis 13.
  • the curved line 3 is a closed circular ring. Accordingly, the converter 1 in the present case has a closed, ring-shaped focus area.
  • Figure 2 again shows the transducers 16 and 1 in a perspective view for illustration.
  • the curved lines in the interior of the transducer represent only that curved course of the radiation surfaces 2, but not a segmentation of the transducers.
  • the converter 1 is divided into four segments 5, 6, 7, 8 here.
  • the segments 5, 6, 7, 8 are dome-shaped, so that each of them has an individual focus 9, 10, 11, 12.
  • the segments 5, 6, 7, 8 are shown arranged relative to one another in the present case so that the individual foci 9, 10, 11, 12 lie on an imaginary space-curved line 3 in the form of a circular ring.
  • the individual segments 5, 6, 7, 8 can be moved in translation in one plane with respect to the main axis 13 of the converter 1, as is indicated by the double arrows in the top view (c). If, starting from the position shown, the individual segments are moved away from the main axis 13 by the same distance, the diameter of the imaginary circular ring 3 increases. It becomes correspondingly smaller when the individual segments move towards the main axis 13.
  • other space-curved lines 3 can also be represented as a circular ring, namely if the distances by which the individual segments 5, 6, 7, 8 are moved with respect to the main axis 13 are not the same.
  • FIG. 4 shows a further embodiment of the converter 1, which like the one according to FIG. 3 has a non-rotationally symmetrical shape.
  • the transducer has a circular outer contour in its maximally extended position (b), while this 3 is the case when all the individual segments 5, 6, 7, 8 have moved as far as possible to the main axis 13 of the converter 1. Then the converter 1 takes the position (a) of the converter 16 in principle.
  • dome segments 5, 6 are arranged at their base at a certain distance from one another.
  • the individual foci 9, 10 are coincident in this position.
  • the individual segments 5, 6 can now be moved in the direction of the main axis 13.
  • the end position (b) is reached when both segments 5, 6 touch on the main axis 13.
  • the sound cones emanating from the individual segments 5, 6 overlap, so that the individual focuses 9, 10 move away from one another. Any intermediate position is of course possible between position (a) and position (b).
  • FIG. 6 schematically shows a further embodiment of the converter.
  • the segments 5, 6 can be pivoted at an angle with respect to the main axis 13.
  • the segments 5, 6 can, for example, be pivoted into position (b), as a result of which the individual foci 9, 10 move away from one another.
  • the individual angles around which the individual segments are pivoted do not always have to be of the same size.
  • different curved lines can be created from a circular ring, on which the individual foci come to rest.
  • FIG. 7 (b) shows a further variant of the converter, which here consists of a single rotationally symmetrical body. It emerges from the dome-shaped, known transducer (a) by tilting the cross-section halves and has a ring focus.
  • FIG. 8 shows a further interesting embodiment of the transducer 1.
  • An acoustic lens 14, which has a plurality of foci 17, 18, is applied to the radiation surface 2 of the transducer 1.
  • an enlargement of the focus area is thus not achieved by moving or pivoting individual elements with respect to the main axis 13, but rather by "acoustically tilting".
  • the lens 14 is formed in one piece and is rotationally symmetrical. Its thickness increases steadily from the edge of the transducer 1 to its center.
  • the converter shown has a focus area, which lies on a closed circular ring as a space-curved line.
  • a focus area which lies on a closed circular ring as a space-curved line.

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