Ultrasound instrument, also known as ultrasonic instruments, ultrasound medical imaging equipment, is a medical instrument developed according to the principle of ultrasound, used in the medical clinic, diagnosis, medical devices in the field of health.
Ultrasound Diagnostic Equipment mainly refers to medical imaging systems in the ultrasound diagnostic devices, due to its price is lower than CT and MRI, but also has a non-invasive and real-time access to tissue images within the body characteristics, so the scope of clinical applications is becoming more and more extensive, the world's total sales growth is expected to exceed the X-ray diagnostic devices.
Medical imaging equipment types are different and numerous, in the current medical diagnostic system, the more common ultrasound medical imaging equipment is A ultrasound, B ultrasound, which is classified according to the instrument display, there are M ultrasound and D ultrasound; classified by volume size, desktop ultrasound and portable ultrasound; classified by application, can be divided into general ultrasound, traditional clinical applications, non-traditional clinical applications, bedside ultrasound; according to the performance and price can be classified into six categories: low-end, mid-range, high end and low end. Classified by performance and price, it can be divided into six categories: low-end, low-end, mid-end, mid-end, high-end, high-end, and ultra-high-end ultrasound.
Domestic ultrasound storm 38 years, mainly experienced three important milestones in the development stage: black and white ultrasound era (1983-2003), belonging to the two-dimensional image, continued for 14 years, gradually from analogue machines to digital machines, in 1983 China's first B ultrasound diagnostic instrument was successfully developed in 2003 Shantou ultrasound developed the world's most advanced all-digital ultrasound, began to comprehensively replace the In 2003, Shantou Ultrasound developed the world's most advanced fully digital ultrasound, which began to fully replace the imported products, marking the industry entered a new stage of development. Since then, black-and-white ultrasound has been gradually popularised and penetrated into hospitals at all levels, becoming one of the commonly used diagnostic instruments in clinics; in the era of colour ultrasound (1997-present), blood flow imaging has been added on the basis of two-dimensional images. The earliest foreign companies entered China around 1985, maintaining a monopoly for more than 10 years. Shantou Ultrasound took the lead in the production of colour ultrasound by successfully acquiring the colour ultrasound technology and production line of ATL in the US in 1997. Since then, domestic colour ultrasound began to rise, and at the same time, due to the emergence of OEM manufacturers, the industry flourished, and the number of domestic brands gradually increased; Functional diagnostic era (2000-present), which is also the current stage of ultrasound development. From the traditional morphological diagnosis to the development of functional diagnosis, such as elasticity imaging, tissue speckle tracking, ultrasonography, microscopic studies, etc.; the future of the fourth stage of development, may start with the development of materials science. The core component of ultrasound, the digital model building of the probe as well as the improvement of material science and process will probably be the future development direction. With the development of artificial intelligence diagnosis, will first step into the imaging class, graphic diagnosis, ultrasound will probably be the entry point of artificial intelligence and cloud diagnosis.