公开(公告)号：US08942453B2

公开(公告)日：2015-01-27

申请号：US13496579

申请日：2010-09-21

申请人： Manabu Migita ,  Yoshihiko Itoh ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Takehiko Suginouchi ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Manabu Migita ,  Yoshihiko Itoh ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Takehiko Suginouchi ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/08

CPC分类号： A61B8/42 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/4245 ,  A61B8/4281 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/464

摘要： An ultrasonograph of the present invention comprises a probe (1), a controller (3) connected to the probe (1), and a display (4) connected to the controller (3). The controller (4) causes the display (4) to display a detected image of a target object detected by the probe (1) and an angular position relationship image showing a relative angular position of the probe to the detected image of the target object. This enables even a non-expert to take accurate measurements.

摘要翻译： 本发明的超声波诊断仪包括探头（1），连接到探头（1）的控制器（3）和连接到控制器（3）的显示器（4）。 控制器（4）使得显示器（4）显示由探测器（1）检测到的目标物体的检测图像和示出探针相对于目标物体的检测图像的相对角位置的角位置关系图。 这使得即使是非专家也能够进行准确的测量。

公开(公告)号：US20120177276A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-12

申请号：US13496579

申请日：2010-09-21

申请人： Manabu Migita ,  Yoshihiko Itoh ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Takehiko Suginouchi ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Manabu Migita ,  Yoshihiko Itoh ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Takehiko Suginouchi ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/42 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/4245 ,  A61B8/4281 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/464

摘要： An ultrasonograph of the present invention comprises a probe (1), a controller (3) connected to the probe (1), and a display (4) connected to the controller (3). The controller (4) causes the display (4) to display a detected image of a target object detected by the probe (1) and an angular position relationship image showing a relative angular position of the probe to the detected image of the target object. This enables even a non-expert to take accurate measurements.

摘要翻译： 本发明的超声波诊断仪包括探头（1），连接到探头（1）的控制器（3）和连接到控制器（3）的显示器（4）。 控制器（4）使得显示器（4）显示由探测器（1）检测到的目标物体的检测图像和示出探针相对于目标物体的检测图像的相对角位置的角位置关系图。 这使得即使是非专家也能够进行准确的测量。

公开(公告)号：US09179889B2

公开(公告)日：2015-11-10

申请号：US13496832

申请日：2010-11-12

申请人： Takenori Fukumoto ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Takenori Fukumoto ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/08

CPC分类号： A61B8/0858 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/5284

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: an ultrasonic signal processing section, which performs transmission processing for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a subject's blood vessel by driving a probe and reception processing for generating a received signal based on the ultrasonic wave reflected from the subject's blood vessel and received at the probe; a tomographic image processing section, which generates a tomographic image based on the received signal; a boundary detecting section, which detects the lumen-intima and media-adventitia boundaries of the blood vessel based on the received signal or the tomographic image; a vascular wall thickness calculating section, which calculates, as a vascular wall thickness value, the interval between the lumen-intima and media-adventitia boundaries detected by the boundary detecting section; a reliability determining section, which determines the reliability of the vascular wall thickness value by a signal feature of the received signal or an image information feature of the tomographic image at a location on the lumen-intima and/or media-adventitia boundaries detected; and a control section, which decides, in accordance with the decision made by the reliability determining section, that the vascular wall thickness value be defined as an intima-media thickness.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的超声波诊断装置包括：超声波信号处理部，其进行用于通过驱动探头向被检者的血管发送超声波的发送处理和基于从所述超声波反射的超声波生成接收信号的接收处理 受试者的血管并在探头处接受; 断层图像处理部，其基于所接收的信号生成断层图像; 边界检测部，其基于所接收的信号或断层图像检测血管的内腔和介质 - 外膜边界; 血管壁厚计算部，其计算由所述边界检测部检测出的所述内腔和介质 - 外膜边界之间的间隔作为血管壁厚度值; 可靠性确定部，其通过接收信号的信号特征或者在检测到的管腔内膜和/或介质外膜边界上的位置处的断层图像的图像信息特征来确定血管壁厚值的可靠性; 以及控制部，其根据所述可靠性判定部的判定，判断为血管壁厚值被定义为内膜中间厚度。

公开(公告)号：US20120179042A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-12

申请号：US13496832

申请日：2010-11-12

申请人： Takenori Fukumoto ,  Akihiro. Kawabata ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Takenori Fukumoto ,  Akihiro. Kawabata ,  Makiko Urabe ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/14

CPC分类号： A61B8/0858 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/5284

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: an ultrasonic signal processing section, which performs transmission processing for transmitting an ultrasonic wave toward a subject's blood vessel by driving a probe and reception processing for generating a received signal based on the ultrasonic wave reflected from the subject's blood vessel and received at the probe; a tomographic image processing section, which generates a tomographic image based on the received signal; a boundary detecting section, which detects the lumen-intima and media-adventitia boundaries of the blood vessel based on the received signal or the tomographic image; a vascular wall thickness calculating section, which calculates, as a vascular wall thickness value, the interval between the lumen-intima and media-adventitia boundaries detected by the boundary detecting section; a reliability determining section, which determines the reliability of the vascular wall thickness value by a signal feature of the received signal or an image information feature of the tomographic image at a location on the lumen-intima and/or media-adventitia boundaries detected; and a control section, which decides, in accordance with the decision made by the reliability determining section, that the vascular wall thickness value be defined as an intima-media thickness.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的超声波诊断装置包括：超声波信号处理部，其进行用于通过驱动探头向被检者的血管发送超声波的发送处理和基于从所述超声波反射的超声波生成接收信号的接收处理 受试者的血管并在探头处接受; 断层图像处理部，其基于所接收的信号生成断层图像; 边界检测部，其基于所接收的信号或断层图像检测血管的内腔和介质 - 外膜边界; 血管壁厚计算部，其计算由所述边界检测部检测出的所述内腔和介质 - 外膜边界之间的间隔作为血管壁厚度值; 可靠性确定部，其通过接收信号的信号特征或者在检测到的管腔内膜和/或介质外膜边界上的位置处的断层图像的图像信息特征来确定血管壁厚值的可靠性; 以及控制部，其根据所述可靠性判定部的判定，判断为血管壁厚值被定义为内膜中间厚度。

公开(公告)号：US08861824B2

公开(公告)日：2014-10-14

申请号：US13320775

申请日：2010-07-26

申请人： Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  A61B8/00 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T7/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/461 ,  A61B8/467 ,  A61B8/469 ,  A61B8/5292 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/30048 ,  H04N1/3871

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided in which overlap of a displayed ultrasonic image and displayed diagnostic data can be avoided without imposing the burden of complicated operations on the operator.An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a tissue of a biological body and receiving a reflection wave of the ultrasonic beam reflected from the tissue; an image construction section for constructing an image frame of a first image representing a tomographic image of the tissue based on the reflection wave; an image analysis section for distinguishing a region of no interest based on an image feature quantity of the image frame, the region of no interest constituting part of the image frame which is exclusive of a region of interest that includes the tomographic image of the tissue; a data generation section for generating a second image that is for display of diagnostic data; an image synthesis section for generating a synthesized image by determining a display position of the second image based on a result of the distinguishment by the image analysis section and superimposing the second image on the image frame of the first image; and a display section for displaying the synthesized image.

摘要翻译： 提供一种超声波诊断装置，其中可以避免显示的超声波图像和显示的诊断数据的重叠，而不会对操作者施加复杂操作的负担。 超声波诊断装置包括：超声波探头，用于将超声波束传送到生物体的组织，并接收从组织反射的超声波束的反射波; 图像构造部，其基于所述反射波构造表示所述组织的断层图像的第一图像的图像帧; 图像分析部分，用于基于图像帧的图像特征量区分不感兴趣的区域，构成除了包括组织的断层图像的感兴趣区域的图像帧的一部分的不感兴趣的区域; 数据生成部，生成用于显示诊断数据的第二图像; 图像合成部分，用于通过基于图像分析部分的识别结果确定第二图像的显示位置并将第二图像叠加在第一图像的图像帧上来产生合成图像; 以及用于显示合成图像的显示部分。

公开(公告)号：US06425872B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-30

申请号：US09690821

申请日：2000-10-18

申请人： Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Hiroshi Fukukita ,  Kinya Hasegawa ,  Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Hiroshi Fukukita ,  Kinya Hasegawa ,  Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： A61B500

CPC分类号： A61B5/02133

摘要： A physical parameter measuring system is provided which measures a physical parameter such as a blood pressure of a person using oscillation transmission. The system includes a phase detector, an A/D converter, an arc center determining circuit, and a phase angle determining circuit. The phase detector detects a phase of a sensor signal produced, in sequence, by monitoring oscillations which are applied by an exciter and transmitted through a living body to map the signal on a two-dimensional plane as a sample point. The A/D converter converts the sample point signal into a digital sample point signal in sequence. The arc center determining circuit determines a center of an arc defined by a distribution of the sample points mapped for a given period of time. The arc determining circuit selects the sample points which are located at an interval greater than a given reference sample-to-sample distance to form a sample group consisting of at least three of the selected sample points and determines a center of a circle passing through the sample group as the center of the arc. The phase angle determining circuit determines a phase angle of the sample point as viewed from the arc center determined by the arc center determining circuit and provides it as a parameter used to determine a physical parameter of the subject.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种物理参数测量系统，其测量使用振荡传输的人的血压等物理参数。 该系统包括相位检测器，A / D转换器，电弧中心确定电路和相位角确定电路。 相位检测器通过监视由激励器施加并通过活体传输的振荡来依次检测产生的传感器信号的相位，以将二维平面上的信号映射为采样点。 A / D转换器将采样点信号顺序转换成数字采样点信号。 电弧中心确定电路确定由给定时间段映射的采样点的分布定义的弧的中心。 电弧确定电路选择位于大于给定参考采样间距离的间隔的采样点，以形成由至少三个所选取样点组成的采样组，并且确定通过所述采样点的圆的中心 样品组为圆弧的中心。 相位角确定电路确定从圆弧中心确定电路确定的从圆弧中心观察的采样点的相位角，并将其提供为用于确定被摄体的物理参数的参数。

公开(公告)号：US08506489B2

公开(公告)日：2013-08-13

申请号：US12676484

申请日：2008-09-04

申请人： Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/5292 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/0456 ,  A61B5/7257 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/488 ,  A61B8/543

摘要： Provided is an ultrasonograph that can automatically optimize the sweep rate of Doppler images and M-mode images according to the heart rate of a test subject, without the need for an operator to perform a troublesome operation. The ultrasonograph is provided with a means for sending an ultrasonic beam into body tissue, a means for receiving an ultrasonic signal that has been reflected off the body tissue and a blood flow, a means for constructing a cross-sectional image of the body tissue from the received ultrasonic signal, a means for performing phase detection on an ultrasonic Doppler blood flow signal that has been reflected off the body tissue by the blood flow, a means for calculating a frequency component of the Doppler blood flow signal on which phase detection has been performed, and a means for performing a sweeping display of the calculated frequency component as Doppler images in a time series. The ultrasonograph has a heart rate measuring means for measuring the heart rate of the test subject at a predetermining timing, and the ultrasonograph also includes an optimum sweep rate calculating means for calculating an optimum sweep rate based on the heart rate obtained by the heart rate measuring means, and an optimum sweep rate setting means for setting the sweep rate of at least either of the Doppler images and M-mode images.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种超声波诊断仪，其可以根据测试对象的心率自动优化多普勒图像和M模式图像的扫描速率，而不需要操作者执行麻烦的操作。 该超声波诊断装置设置有用于将超声波束发送到身体组织中的装置，用于接收从身体组织反射的超声波信号和血流的装置，用于构建身体组织的横截面图像的装置， 所接收的超声波信号，用于对通过血流从身体组织反射的超声多普勒血流信号执行相位检测的装置，用于计算已经进行了相位检测的多普勒血流信号的频率分量的装置 以及用于以时间序列作为多普勒图像执行所计算的频率分量的扫描显示的装置。 该超声波诊断装置具有用于在预先确定的时刻测定被检者的心率的心率测定单元，超声波诊断装置还包括：最佳扫描速度计算单元，其基于心率测定得到的心率计算最佳扫描速度 以及用于设置多普勒图像和M模式图像中的至少一个的扫描速率的最佳扫描速率设置装置。

公开(公告)号：US06802815B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-12

申请号：US10721083

申请日：2003-11-26

申请人： Kinya Hasegawa ,  Yushi Nishimura ,  Hisashi Hagiwara

发明人： Kinya Hasegawa ,  Yushi Nishimura ,  Hisashi Hagiwara

IPC分类号： A61B500

CPC分类号： A61B5/02133 ,  A61B5/021 ,  A61B5/02116 ,  A61B2562/0247 ,  A61B2562/043

摘要： One of pairs of an exciter and a sensor is selected in accordance with the detection signal which is derived from an exciter waveform induced in an artery transmitted therethrough. The pairs of exciters and sensors are arranged on a substrate in various formations. A/D converters are provided to respective detection signals. A frequency of the oscillation signal supplied to the exciter is controlled by various oscillation signal generation circuits. Bandpass filtering for extracting the exciter waveform, low-pass-filtering for extracting a natural blood pressure waveform, phase difference detection processes are provided by a microprocessor, wherein the bandpass filtering and low-pass-filtering processes may be replaced with a bandpass filter and a low pass filter, and their outputs are selected by a switching circuit and supplied to the microprocessor through one a/d converter. The frequency of the oscillation signal is controlled to an optimum frequency by detecting the detection signal and estimating the attenuation, dispersion, phase shift with respect to different frequency and by determining one of the different frequency in accordance with the estimation result. The waveform of the oscillation signal is controlled to an optimum waveform similarly.

摘要翻译： 根据从通过其传输的动脉中感应的激励器波形导出的检测信号来选择一对激励器和​​传感器。 激励器和传感器对被布置在各种形式的基板上。 A / D转换器被提供给相应的检测信号。 提供给励磁机的振荡信号的频率由各种振荡信号发生电路控制。 用于提取激励器波形的带通滤波器，用于提取自然血压波形的低通滤波，相位差检测处理由微处理器提供，其中带通滤波和低通滤波处理可以被带通滤波器代替， 低通滤波器，其输出由开关电路选择，并通过一个a / d转换器提供给微处理器。 通过检测检测信号并估计相对于不同频率的衰减，色散，相移以及根据估计结果确定不同频率之一，将振荡信号的频率控制到最佳频率。 振荡信号的波形类似地被控制到最佳波形。

公开(公告)号：US06358212B1

公开(公告)日：2002-03-19

申请号：US09290394

申请日：1999-04-13

申请人： Kinya Hasegawa ,  Yushi Nishimura ,  Hisashi Hagiwara

发明人： Kinya Hasegawa ,  Yushi Nishimura ,  Hisashi Hagiwara

IPC分类号： A61B500

CPC分类号： A61B5/02133 ,  A61B5/021 ,  A61B5/02116 ,  A61B2562/0247 ,  A61B2562/043

摘要： One of pairs of an exciter and a sensor is selected in accordance with the detection signal which is derived from an exciter waveform induced in an artery transmitted therethrough. The pairs of exciters and sensors are arranged on a substrate in various formations. A/D converters are provided to respective detection signals. A frequency of the oscillation signal supplied to the exciter is controlled by various oscillation signal generation circuits. Bandpass filtering for extracting the exciter waveform, low-pass-filtering for extracting a natural blood pressure waveform, phase difference detection processes are provided by a microprocessor, wherein the bandpass filtering and low-pass-filtering processes may be replaced with a bandpass filter and a low pass filter, and their outputs are selected by a switching circuit and supplied to the microprocessor through one a/d converter. The frequency of the oscillation signal is controlled to an optimum frequency by detecting the detection signal and estimating the attenuation, dispersion, phase shift with respect to different frequency and by determining one of the different frequency in accordance with the estimation result. The waveform of the oscillation signal is controlled to an optimum waveform similarly.

摘要翻译： 根据从通过其传输的动脉中感应的激励器波形导出的检测信号来选择一对激励器和​​传感器。 激励器和传感器对被布置在各种形式的基板上。 A / D转换器被提供给相应的检测信号。 提供给励磁机的振荡信号的频率由各种振荡信号发生电路控制。 用于提取激励器波形的带通滤波器，用于提取自然血压波形的低通滤波，相位差检测处理由微处理器提供，其中带通滤波和低通滤波处理可以被带通滤波器代替， 低通滤波器，其输出由开关电路选择，并通过一个a / d转换器提供给微处理器。 通过检测检测信号并估计相对于不同频率的衰减，色散，相移以及根据估计结果确定不同频率之一，将振荡信号的频率控制到最佳频率。 振荡信号的波形类似地被控制到最佳波形。

公开(公告)号：US20120063661A1

公开(公告)日：2012-03-15

申请号：US13320775

申请日：2010-07-26

申请人： Yushi Nishimura

发明人： Yushi Nishimura

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/461 ,  A61B8/467 ,  A61B8/469 ,  A61B8/5292 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/30048 ,  H04N1/3871

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided in which overlap of a displayed ultrasonic image and displayed diagnostic data can be avoided without imposing the burden of complicated operations on the operator.An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a tissue of a biological body and receiving a reflection wave of the ultrasonic beam reflected from the tissue; an image construction section for constructing an image frame of a first image representing a tomographic image of the tissue based on the reflection wave; an image analysis section for distinguishing a region of no interest based on an image feature quantity of the image frame, the region of no interest constituting part of the image frame which is exclusive of a region of interest that includes the tomographic image of the tissue; a data generation section for generating a second image that is for display of diagnostic data; an image synthesis section for generating a synthesized image by determining a display position of the second image based on a result of the distinguishment by the image analysis section and superimposing the second image on the image frame of the first image; and a display section for displaying the synthesized image.

摘要翻译： 提供一种超声波诊断装置，其中可以避免显示的超声波图像和显示的诊断数据的重叠，而不会对操作者施加复杂操作的负担。 超声波诊断装置包括：超声波探头，用于将超声波束传送到生物体的组织，并接收从组织反射的超声波束的反射波; 图像构造部，其基于所述反射波构造表示所述组织的断层图像的第一图像的图像帧; 图像分析部分，用于基于图像帧的图像特征量区分不感兴趣的区域，构成除了包括组织的断层图像的感兴趣区域的图像帧的一部分的不感兴趣的区域; 数据生成部，生成用于显示诊断数据的第二图像; 图像合成部分，用于通过基于图像分析部分的识别结果确定第二图像的显示位置并将第二图像叠加在第一图像的图像帧上来产生合成图像; 以及用于显示合成图像的显示部分。