ACTIVE STRUCTURAL SCANNER FOR SCANNING IN 3D MODE DATA OF UNKNOWN STRUCTURES

摘要

The invention relates to an active structure reader for recording, in 3D-mod e, information regarding unidentified structures. The active structure reader emits emission signals with any modulation function from an emitter and receives, in their complete information content, the signals which are reflected by an unidentified structure or which pass through the same and ar e attenuated due to absorption. This active structure reader can be used in an y location where an unidentified structure is embedded in a medium, e.g. in th e field of medicine for examining the human or animal body. The active structu re reader is characterized in that acoustic modules having emitting and receivi ng elements are arranged in known positions with regard to one another so that their acoustic irradiation spaces and receive spaces overlap on the structur e to be examined.