Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and beamforming method
- Patent Title (中): 超声波诊断仪和波束成形方法
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Application No.: US14083857Application Date: 2013-11-19
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Publication No.: US09017261B2Publication Date: 2015-04-28
- Inventor: Yasuhito Watanabe
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz, Goodman & Chick PC
- Priority: JP2012-126768 20120604
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; G01S7/52 ; G10K11/34

Abstract:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a first reference beam generating unit generating a first reference beam from DAS signals calculated in an N-th frame; a second reference beam generating unit generating a second reference beam from a DAS signal calculated in an (N−1)-th frame, the DAS signal calculated in the N-th frame, and another DAS signal calculated in an (N+1)-th frame; an attenuation coefficient calculating unit calculating, based on the first reference beam and the second reference beam, an attenuation coefficient to be multiplied by the DAS signals calculated in the N-th frame; and a beamforming unit generating and providing a beamformed signal generated for a reference scan line in the N-th frame by multiplying a DAS signal calculated in the N-th frame by the attenuation coefficient.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140094700A1 ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND BEAMFORMING METHOD Public/Granted day:2014-04-03
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