Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasonographic device for performing luminance correction
- Patent Title (中): 用于执行亮度校正的超声波装置
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Application No.: US11597325Application Date: 2004-11-10
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Publication No.: US08353836B2Publication Date: 2013-01-15
- Inventor: Takashi Azuma , Shin-ichiro Umemura , Hideyo Kamada
- Applicant: Takashi Azuma , Shin-ichiro Umemura , Hideyo Kamada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP2004-155662 20040526
- International Application: PCT/JP2004/016631 WO 20041110
- International Announcement: WO2005/115248 WO 20051208
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
The present invention provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus realizing improved visibility of a contour shape of signal components in an ultrasonic blood flow spectrum display image. The apparatus includes a gray-level correction unit for correcting intensity of an output result of a Doppler processing unit. The Doppler processing unit calculates a Doppler frequency shift in a reception signal output from a receiver and calculates blood flow velocity of a subject on the basis of the Doppler frequency shift. The gray-level correction unit has: a filtering unit for separating a signal and a noise from each other, which are included in a time-varying waveform of the blood flow velocity of the subject obtained by the Doppler processing unit on the basis of continuity on a space defined by the blood flow velocity and time; and a gray-level corrector for performing a gray level correction using, as a parameter, a boundary value between signal intensity and noise intensity obtained by the filtering unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090163816A1 Ultrasonographic Device Public/Granted day:2009-06-25
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