摘要:
A compression paddle of a mammographic diagnosis apparatus is provided with an opening portion which allows an ultrasonic probe to be fitted therein and slide. This apparatus performs ultrasonic scanning on a breast compressed/fixed to the compression paddle, and reconstructs a compressed breast image by using the obtained ultrasonic image as a virtual image, thereby acquiring an ultrasonic image and volume data of the compressed/fixed breast.
摘要:
A vehicle air conditioner comprising: an intake box provided in an inside of an instrument panel at a front part of a passenger compartment of a vehicle and having a recirculation intake, a fresh-air intake, and an intake door for opening/closing the intakes; a fan unit provided in the inside of the instrument panel and connected to the downstream of the intake box; a temperature control unit provided in the inside of the instrument panel and connected to the downstream of the fan unit and incorporating a cooling heat exchanger, a blow duct provided in the inside of the instrument panel and connecting the temperature control unit and the passenger compartment such that air flows from the temperature control unit to the passenger compartment via the blow duct; a communicating port formed at the blow duct or the temperate control unit and communicating with the inside of the instrument panel; and a door configured to open/close the communicating port.
摘要:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that performs high acoustic pressure and low acoustic pressure ultrasonic transmissions by switching at predetermined timing in the enhanced ultrasonography, and displays concurrently a replenishment image obtained through the low acoustic pressure transmission in real time like a moving picture, and a pre-flash image obtained through the low acoustic pressure transmission immediately before switching to the high acoustic pressure transmission like a still image to allow the operator to understand the structure at the level of capillaries. It is also possible to display a selected image obtained through the low acoustic pressure transmission at an arbitrary timing instead of the pre-flash image.
摘要:
After executing a second transmission constituting an ultrasonic wave of an amount of one frame from an ultrasonic wave having a high sound pressure of destructing bubbles in a predetermined section for making a blood stream image or a tissue image in a circulation image of a blood stream disappear by making the bubbles in the predetermined section disappear, there is carried out a third transmission by an ultrasonic wave having a low sound pressure of not substantially destructing the bubbles for acquiring the circulation image of the blood stream with regard to the predetermined section. The first transmission is executed by the ultrasonic wave for making a portion of the blood stream image in the circulation image disappear by making the bubbles at the predetermined region present in the predetermined section disappear as necessary while executing the third transmission.
摘要:
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus for obtaining an ultrasound image of a subject into which an ultrasound contrast agent mainly composed of microbubbles is injected, comprising a probe configured to transmit/receive an ultrasound wave to/from the subject, a transmission circuit configured to drive the probe to transmit an ultrasound wave while sequentially changing a direction of an ultrasound transmission line, a reception circuit configured to generate reception line data of the number of parallel reception from ultrasound echo signals obtained by one ultrasound wave transmission, a transmission/reception control circuit configured to control the transmission and reception circuits to change the number of parallel reception during a scan sequence for generating a 1-frame ultrasound image, and an image processing unit configured to generate an ultrasound image on the basis of the reception line data.
摘要:
After the establishment of the saturation state of a contrast medium which has flowed into a subject for photographing inside a patient given the contrast medium, scan is performed under a high acoustic pressure adapted to break the bubbles of the contrast medium, so as to refresh the section for the photographing, and to acquire the maximum value of echo signal intensities. Subsequently, scans by ultrasounds under a low acoustic pressure or a medium acoustic pressure which does not break the contrast medium are carried out a plurality of times at different timings, thereby to execute a scan sequence for acquiring in-vivo information necessary for a TIC analysis. Data obtained by the scans are analyzed in a blood-flow-index estimation unit, and are displayed in a predetermined scheme.
摘要:
An image processing/displaying apparatus comprises a data storage unit configured to store 3-dimensional volume data, a cross section information generation unit configured to generate cross section information by reconstructing the 3-dimensional volume data stored in the data storage unit, an image display unit configured to display a cross section image of a subject in accordance with the cross section information generated by the cross section information generation unit, a locking unit configured to designate an affected part in the cross section image as a rotation center and a control unit configured to control image rotation on the image display unit so that the affected part is contained in the cross section image, when operation for rotating cross section is performed by an operator.
摘要:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus wherein an echo signal produced by scanning an ultrasonic beam at a three dimensional region is received and a two dimensional cross sectional image and three dimensional information based on the echo signal are obtained. A display is operable in a first mode in which only the cross sectional image is displayed, a second mode in which only the three dimensional information is displayed, and a third mode in which the three dimensional information overlapped with said cross sectional image is displayed. The three dimensional information at least includes a portion of the two dimensional cross sectional image, and preferably adjacent front side and rear side regions. In a preferred embodiment, the three dimensional information is color doppler information and the two dimensional cross sectional image is a gray scale image, and the areas of the cross sectional surfaces in which the color doppler information is obtained in a direction perpendicular to the front and back of the gray scale two dimensional cross sectional image become smaller as the distance from the gray scale two dimensional cross sectional image increases.
摘要:
An ultrasound contrast medium which substantially consist of microbubbles is injected into a patient and contrast echo imaging is performed by a diagnostic ultrasound apparatus. In the apparatus, an ultrasound pulse signal is transmitted toward the patient's diagnostic region on the basis of a changeable transmitted sound pressure, an echoed component of the transmitted ultrasound pulse signal is received to produce a corresponding reception signal, a tomographic image using the reception signal is produced, and the transmitted sound pressure is optimized so as to maximize a value of the reception signal. The transmitted sound pressure is a representative of the transmission power condition. For example, the transmitted sound pressure optimized is displayed. The transmitted sound pressure is, by way of example, optimized based on the reception signal corresponding to the echoed component emanating from an overall region of interest in a cross section scanned by the ultrasound pulse signal.
摘要:
In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound transmission/reception means transmits and receives ultrasound to and from a subject to obtain an echo signal and an ultrasonic image of a desired tomographic plane of the subject is produced on the basis of the echo signal. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises image collecting means for collecting ultrasonic images in the direction perpendicular to the tomographic plane, image synthesizing means for synthesizing a stereoscopic right-eye image and a stereoscopic left-eye image from the ultrasonic images, and display means for displaying the right-eye image and the left-eye image separately. Using a relatively small number of images, a simple ultrasonic three-dimensional image with a depth effect is displayed at high speed.