Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasound imaging apparatus and a method for generating an ultrasound image
- Patent Title (中): 超声成像设备和用于产生超声图像的方法
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Application No.: US12353482Application Date: 2009-01-14
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Publication No.: US08852109B2Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Hitoshi Yamagata
- Applicant: Hitoshi Yamagata
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Otawara-shi
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Otawara-shi
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-012177 20080123
- Main IPC: A61B8/14
- IPC: A61B8/14 ; G01S15/89 ; A61B8/08 ; G01S7/52

Abstract:
A controller makes a scan part scan a three-dimensional first scanning region so as to acquire volume data in the first scanning region and makes the scan part to consecutively scan a second scanning region that is smaller than the first scanning region and is included in the first scanning region more than once so as to consecutively acquire the volume data in the second scanning region. An image generator generates ultrasound image data in the first scanning region including the second scanning region based on the volume data in the first scanning region. Further, the image generator generates new ultrasound image data by updating the volume data in the second scanning region every time volume data in the second scanning region is acquired. The display controller causes a display to update and causes to display an ultrasound image every time new ultrasound image data is generated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090187104A1 ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE Public/Granted day:2009-07-23
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