ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20230225710A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18155217

    申请日:2023-01-17

    Inventor: Hiroki TAKAHASHI

    CPC classification number: A61B8/5207 A61B8/4477

    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment has transmitting and receiving circuitry that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves, and processing circuitry. The transmitting and receiving circuitry is configured to perform first beamforming processing on reflected wave signals output from a plurality of transducer elements that receive reflected waves and perform second beamforming processing different from the first beamforming processing on the reflected wave signals. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an evaluation value of spatial correlation of the reflected wave signals and perform third beamforming processing based on a first processing result that is a processing result of the first beamforming processing, a second processing result that is a processing result of the second beamforming processing, and the evaluation value.

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20230000470A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17809391

    申请日:2022-06-28

    Inventor: Hiroki TAKAHASHI

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment is configured to implement an ultrasound beamforming method by which, among a plurality of reception signals output from a plurality of elements, reception signals from mutually-different elements are multiplied by each other, so that signals obtained as results of the multiplications are added together. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to the embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a weight coefficient on the basis of a correlation between the multiplied reception signals. The processing circuitry is configured to apply the weight coefficient to the signals obtained as the results of the multiplications.

    ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20250143674A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-08

    申请号:US18900187

    申请日:2024-09-27

    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe transmits an ultrasonic wave to a subject, and receives the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject. The processing circuitry acquires first ultrasonic data of the subject, based on the ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic probe. The processing circuitry extracts identification information that identifies a position of a local peak for each predetermined region of a frame represented by the first ultrasonic data. The processing circuitry outputs second ultrasonic data, based on the extracted identification information and ultrasonic data representing an object to be processed.

    ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20250127480A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-24

    申请号:US18916827

    申请日:2024-10-16

    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry reduces the clutter component, which results from the tissues, from a data row of the plurality of frames and estimates first-type blood flow information. Moreover, the processing circuit generates, from the first-type blood flow information, second-type blood flow information representing images of scalar values of blood flow signals, detects the local maximums of the second-type blood flow information, integrates the local maximums and generates a scalar value integration image, calculates an autocorrelation function in the frame direction at positions of the local maximum in the first-type blood flow information, integrates the autocorrelation functions and generates an autocorrelation function integration image, generates third-type blood flow information, in which the blood flow is color-coded, from the scalar value integration image and the autocorrelation function integration image, and displays the third-type blood flow information on a display.

    ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230233188A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-27

    申请号:US18158674

    申请日:2023-01-24

    CPC classification number: A61B8/5207

    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts an odd harmonic component from a reflected wave signal received by each element of an ultrasonic probe. The processing circuitry determines whether the reflected wave signal is saturated or not using the extracted odd harmonic component. The processing circuitry multiplies the reflected wave signal of an element for which the reflected wave signal is determined to be saturated by a weight coefficient. The processing circuitry generates reflected wave data by performing phasing addition on the reflected wave signal.

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250009343A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18760080

    申请日:2024-07-01

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes: transmitter/receiver circuitry configured to transmit an ultrasound wave to the inside of an examined subject and to receive an echo signal emitted in response to the ultrasound wave; and processing circuitry configured to extract, with respect to each spatial point, information that is related to motion velocity of a target inside the examined subject and included in a signal data sequence obtained from the echo signal, to calculate periodicity information of a movement of the examined subject on the basis of the information, and to generate a spatial distribution of the periodicity information.

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