公开(公告)号：US20070123777A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-31

申请号：US10562319

申请日：2004-06-24

申请人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Kazuhiro Sunagawa

发明人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Kazuhiro Sunagawa

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/0858 ,  A61B5/02007

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits at least one ultrasonic pulse from a surface of a skin of a subject toward a blood vessel (21) thereof, a reception unit (3) that receives an ultrasonic echo reflected by the blood vessel and converts the same into an electric signal to obtain a signal of the ultrasonic echo along a depth direction from the surface of the skin, a movement detection unit (5) that analyzes a phase of the ultrasonic echo signal in a direction traversing the blood vessel so as to calculate a movement amount in each of a plurality of parts included in a blood vessel wall constituting the blood vessel and a vicinity of the blood vessel wall, and a boundary detection unit (7) that detects a boundary position between the blood vessel wall and a blood flow region (22) in a lumen of the blood vessel through which blood flows based on a variation in the calculated movement amount in each part. Instability occurring when a brightness signal in image data is used can be eliminated, so that a state of a blood vessel, such as an IMT value, can be measured correctly using ultrasonic waves.

摘要翻译： 一种超声波诊断装置，包括从被检体的皮肤表面向其血管（21）发送至少一个超声波脉冲的发送部，接受由血管反射的超声回波的接收部（3），以及 将其转换为电信号以从皮肤表面沿着深度方向获得超声回波的信号;移动检测单元（5），其在穿过血管的方向上分析超声回波信号的相位， 计算包括在构成血管的血管壁和血管壁附近的多个部位的移动量的边界检测部（7），其检测血管壁 以及基于每个部分中计算出的移动量的变化的血液流过的血管内腔中的血流区域（22）。 可以消除使用图像数据中的亮度信号时发生的不稳定性，从而可以使用超声波正确地测量诸如IMT值的血管状态。

公开(公告)号：US07686764B2

公开(公告)日：2010-03-30

申请号：US10562319

申请日：2004-06-24

申请人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Kazuhiro Sunagawa

发明人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Kazuhiro Sunagawa

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/0858 ,  A61B5/02007

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits at least one ultrasonic pulse from a surface of a skin of a subject toward a blood vessel (21) thereof, a reception unit (3) that receives an ultrasonic echo reflected by the blood vessel and converts the same into an electric signal to obtain a signal of the ultrasonic echo along a depth direction from the surface of the skin, a movement detection unit (5) that analyzes a phase of the ultrasonic echo signal in a direction traversing the blood vessel so as to calculate a movement amount in each of a plurality of parts included in a blood vessel wall constituting the blood vessel and a vicinity of the blood vessel wall, and a boundary detection unit (7) that detects a boundary position between the blood vessel wall and a blood flow region (22) in a lumen of the blood vessel through which blood flows based on a variation in the calculated movement amount in each part. Instability occurring when a brightness signal in image data is used can be eliminated, so that a state of a blood vessel, such as an IMT value, can be measured correctly using ultrasonic waves.

摘要翻译： 一种超声波诊断装置，包括从被检体的皮肤表面向其血管（21）发送至少一个超声波脉冲的发送部，接受由血管反射的超声回波的接收部（3），以及 将其转换为电信号以从皮肤表面沿着深度方向获得超声回波的信号;移动检测单元（5），其在穿过血管的方向上分析超声回波信号的相位， 计算包括在构成血管的血管壁和血管壁附近的多个部位的移动量的边界检测部（7），其检测血管壁 以及基于每个部分中计算出的移动量的变化的血液流过的血管内腔中的血流区域（22）。 可以消除使用图像数据中的亮度信号时发生的不稳定性，从而可以使用超声波正确地测量诸如IMT值的血管状态。

公开(公告)号：US07905834B2

公开(公告)日：2011-03-15

申请号：US10597660

申请日：2005-02-02

申请人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki

发明人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/565 ,  A61B8/13

摘要： A subject-side apparatus 10A is provided with a cine memory 15 for sequentially storing an ultrasonic signal that is received by an ultrasonic wave transmission/reception portion 12 per each frame. Every time after freezing when moving a pointer for designating a frame to be reproduced in a hospital-side apparatus 20A, a communication line interface 14 of the subject-side apparatus reproduces a frame that is required to be retransmitted by a console 24 of the hospital-side apparatus from the cine memory, and retransmits it to a communication line interface 21 of the hospital-side apparatus via a communication line 30. Then, an ultrasonic image of the retransmitted frame is displayed on a monitor 23. When an examiner performs a diagnosis with respect to a subject in a remote location via the communication line, an ultrasonic image can be displayed with sufficiently suppressed degradation of an image quality compared with an image quality of an original image, even at a low data rate of the communication line.

摘要翻译： 被检体侧设备10A设置有电影存储器15，用于顺序地存储每个帧由超声波发送/接收部分12接收的超声波信号。 每当在医院侧设备20A中移动用于指定要再现的帧的指针时，每次冻结后，被摄体侧设备的通信线路接口14再现由医院的控制台24需要重发的帧 并且经由通信线路30将其重新发送到医院侧装置的通信线路接口21.然后，重新发送的帧的超声波图像被显示在监视器23上。当检查者执行 通过通信线路在远程位置对被摄体的诊断，即使在通信线路的低数据速率下，与原始图像的图像质量相比，也可以充分抑制图像质量的劣化，从而显示超声波图像。

公开(公告)号：US07575551B2

公开(公告)日：2009-08-18

申请号：US10569661

申请日：2004-08-30

申请人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki

发明人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B5/02007 ,  A61B8/0858 ,  A61B8/58 ,  G01S7/5206 ,  G01S15/8979 ,  Y10S128/916

摘要： There is provided an excellent biological signal monitor device that allows a living tissue moving in accordance with a body motion or a vibration to be observed as if it were standing still. A reverse correction processing unit (114) subjects a B-mode image to reverse correction based on a movement amount of the living tissue detected by a movement amount detection unit (113), and outputs the B-mode image corresponding to the living tissue moving in accordance with a body motion as quasi-still image information. An arithmetic processing unit (115) subjects the quasi-still image information from the reverse correction processing unit (114) to arithmetic processing such as averaging and filter processing, so as to remove a random noise component. As a result, it is possible to display, for example, a contour portion of a blood vessel wall as the living tissue clearly.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种优良的生物信号监测装置，其允许活体组织根据身体运动或振动进行移动，就像静止状态一样被观察。 反向校正处理单元（114）根据由移动量检测单元（113）检测到的生物体组织的移动量对B模式图像进行反向校正，并输出与活组织移动对应的B模式图像 根据身体运动作为准静止图像信息。 算术处理单元（115）对来自反向校正处理单元（114）的准静止图像信息进行诸如平均和滤波处理之类的算术处理，以便去除随机噪声分量。 结果，可以清楚地显示例如血管壁的轮廓部分作为活体组织。

公开(公告)号：US07569016B2

公开(公告)日：2009-08-04

申请号：US10562550

申请日：2004-07-02

申请人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara

发明人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/0858 ,  A61B5/02007 ,  A61B5/1075 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/543

摘要： There are provided transmission means (1) for transmitting an ultrasonic signal from a surface of a skin of a subject toward a blood vessel (21) of the subject, reception means (3) for receiving a reflected ultrasonic echo and converting the ultrasonic echo into an electric signal to obtain the ultrasonic echo signal in a depth direction from the surface of the skin, movement detection means (5) for analyzing a phase of the ultrasonic echo signal in a direction traversing the blood vessel to calculate a movement amount in each of a plurality of regions including a blood vessel wall and a vicinity of the blood vessel wall, analysis means (7) for analyzing a state of the blood vessel based on a variation in the calculated movement amount in each of the regions, boundary position detection means (8) for detecting a boundary position between the blood vessel wall and a blood flow region of the blood vessel based on a result of the analysis by the analysis means, and stability judgment means (15) for comparing the detected boundary position with a detection result in a previous cycle.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于从受试者的皮肤表面向对象的血管（21）发送超声信号的发送装置（1），用于接收反射的超声回波并将超声回波转换成 从皮肤表面获得深度方向的超声波回波信号的电信号，用于在穿过血管的方向上分析超声波回波信号的相位的运动检测装置（5），计算出每个 包括血管壁和血管壁附近的多个区域，分析装置（7），用于基于每个区域中计算的移动量的变化来分析血管的状态，边界位置检测装置 （8），用于基于分析装置的分析结果检测血管壁与血管的血流区域之间的边界位置，以及稳定性判断平均值 s（15），用于将检测到的边界位置与先前循环中的检测结果进行比较。

公开(公告)号：US09380994B2

公开(公告)日：2016-07-05

申请号：US11722549

申请日：2005-12-19

申请人： Takao Seki ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Makoto Kato

发明人： Takao Seki ,  Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Makoto Kato

IPC分类号： A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08

CPC分类号： A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/44

摘要： An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section, which drives a probe that transmits an ultrasonic wave toward a subject; a receiving section, which receives an ultrasonic echo, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject, through the probe, thereby generating a received signal; a property value calculating section for calculating property values of the subject based on the received signal over a period of time; a stability estimating section for sequentially estimating the degrees of stability of the property values that have been calculated over the period of time; and a presenting section for presenting the degrees of stability thereon.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的超声波诊断装置包括：发送部，其将朝向被检体发送超声波的探针驱动; 接收部，其通过由所述探针接收被检体反射的超声波而产生的超声波回波，从而生成接收信号; 属性值计算部分，用于在一段时间内基于所接收的信号来计算被摄体的属性值; 稳定性估计部，用于顺序地估计在该时间段内计算出的属性值的稳定度; 以及呈现部分，用于呈现其上的稳定度。

公开(公告)号：US20080249401A1

公开(公告)日：2008-10-09

申请号：US10597660

申请日：2005-02-02

申请人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki

发明人： Yoshinobu Watanabe ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Takao Suzuki

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/565 ,  A61B8/13

摘要： A subject-side apparatus 10A is provided with a cine memory 15 for sequentially storing an ultrasonic signal that is received by an ultrasonic wave transmission/reception portion 12 per each frame. Every time after freezing when moving a pointer for designating a frame to be reproduced in a hospital-side apparatus 20A, a communication line interface 14 of the subject-side apparatus reproduces a frame that is required to be retransmitted by a console 24 of the hospital-side apparatus from the cine memory, and retransmits it to a communication line interface 21 of the hospital-side apparatus via a communication line 30. Then, an ultrasonic image of the retransmitted frame is displayed on a monitor 23. When an examiner performs a diagnosis with respect to a subject in a remote location via the communication line, an ultrasonic image can be displayed with sufficiently suppressed degradation of an image quality compared with an image quality of an original image, even at a low data rate of the communication line.

摘要翻译： 被检体侧装置10A设置有电影存储器15，其用于顺序地存储由每个帧的超声波发送/接收部分12接收的超声波信号。 每当在移动用于指定要在医院侧装置20A中再现的帧的指针时，每次冻结后，主体侧装置的通信线路接口14再现通过控制台24需要重发的帧 医院侧装置通过通信线路30将其发送到医院侧装置的通信线路接口21.然后，重新发送的帧的超声波图像被显示在监视器23上。当检查者执行 通过通信线路对远程位置的被摄体进行诊断，即使在通信线路的低数据速率下，也可以充分抑制与原始图像的图像质量相比劣化的图像的超声波图像 。

公开(公告)号：US20070055149A1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-08

申请号：US10556880

申请日：2004-05-19

申请人： Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe

发明人： Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/08 ,  A61B5/02007 ,  A61B5/021 ,  A61B5/0456 ,  A61B5/489 ,  A61B5/7239 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/485 ,  A61B8/488 ,  A61B8/543 ,  G01S7/52071 ,  G01S7/52074 ,  G01S7/52087

摘要： There are provided a transmission unit (102) and a reception unit (103) for transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave with respect to a subject, a tissue tracing unit (115) for analyzing a received signal to trace the movement of a tissue of the subject, and a property detection unit (120) for detecting a property concerning the movement of the tissue of the subject. The property detection unit (120) subjects either one of the received signal, a Doppler shift, and the movement of the tissue of the subject to signal processing, detects a property concerning the movement of the tissue of the subject that is in synchronization with a heartbeat, and generates an initializing pulse based on the detected property. The tissue tracing unit (115) is initialized by the initializing pulse. It is possible to obtain a distribution image of an elastic modulus of the tissue of the subject as well as a tomographic image of the subject with a simple operation of only applying a probe to the subject without the necessity for a special connection between the subject and the device.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种发送单元（102）和用于相对于被摄体发送和接收超声波的接收单元（103），用于分析接收信号的组织跟踪单元（115），以跟踪所述组织的移动 对象和属性检测单元（120），用于检测与被检体的组织移动有关的属性。 属性检测单元（120）使接收到的信号，多普勒频移中的任何一个和对象的组织的移动信号处理，检测与主体的组织的移动相关的属性，该属性与 心跳，并且基于检测到的属性生成初始化脉冲。 组织跟踪单元（115）由初始化脉冲初始化。 可以通过简单的操作来获得被检体的组织的弹性模量的分布图像，而不需要在被检体和被检体之间进行特殊的连接。 装置。

公开(公告)号：US20060173309A1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-03

申请号：US10560375

申请日：2004-06-10

申请人： Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe

发明人： Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/485 ,  A61B5/021 ,  A61B5/0456 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/466 ,  A61B8/5238 ,  G01S7/52042 ,  G01S7/52074 ,  G01S7/52087

摘要： A tomographic image and a tissue characteristic image that are in conformity with each other in terms of time-phase and positional relationships can be displayed superimposedly, thereby providing an excellent ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that enables an easy and detailed observation of a relationship between a structure and a characteristic of a subject tissue. During an operation of ultrasonic wave transmission/reception (in a live mode), a control part (100) allows a tomographic image to be renewed continuously, displayed on a monitor (107), and stored in a tomographic image memory (110), while allowing an elastic modulus image as a tissue characteristic image to be renewed per heartbeat, displayed on the monitor, and stored in an elastic-modulus-image memory (111) as a tissue characteristic image memory. During a suspension of ultrasonic wave transmission/reception (in a cine mode), the control part (100) allows the elastic modulus image to be read out from the elastic-modulus-image memory and the tomographic image that is in synchronization with the elastic modulus image to be read out from the tomographic image memory, and allows these images to be displayed on the monitor.

摘要翻译： 可以叠加地显示在时间相位和位置关系方面彼此一致的断层图像和组织特征图像，从而提供优异的超声波诊断装置，能够容易且详细地观察结构与 主题组织的特征。 在超声波发送/接收操作（在实时模式中），控制部分（100）允许连续更新断层图像，显示在监视器（107）上，并存储在断层图像存储器（110）中， 同时允许弹性模量图像作为组织特征图像在心跳上更新，显示在监视器上，并作为组织特征图像存储器存储在弹性模量图像存储器（111）中。 在超声波发送/接收（电影模式）的中止期间，控制部（100）允许从弹性模量图像存储器读出弹性模量图像，并且与弹性体同步的断层图像 将从断层图像存储器读出的模数图像，并且允许这些图像显示在监视器上。

公开(公告)号：US08591417B2

公开(公告)日：2013-11-26

申请号：US10556880

申请日：2004-05-19

申请人： Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe

发明人： Takao Suzuki ,  Hisashi Hagiwara ,  Yoshinao Tannaka ,  Yoshinobu Watanabe

IPC分类号： A61B8/00

CPC分类号： A61B8/08 ,  A61B5/02007 ,  A61B5/021 ,  A61B5/0456 ,  A61B5/489 ,  A61B5/7239 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  A61B8/0891 ,  A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/485 ,  A61B8/488 ,  A61B8/543 ,  G01S7/52071 ,  G01S7/52074 ,  G01S7/52087

摘要： There are provided a transmission unit (102) and a reception unit (103) for transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave with respect to a subject, a tissue tracing unit (115) for analyzing a received signal to trace the movement of a tissue of the subject, and a property detection unit (120) for detecting a property concerning the movement of the tissue of the subject. The property detection unit (120) subjects either one of the received signal, a Doppler shift, and the movement of the tissue of the subject to signal processing, detects a property concerning the movement of the tissue of the subject that is in synchronization with a heartbeat, and generates an initializing pulse based on the detected property. The tissue tracing unit (115) is initialized by the initializing pulse. It is possible to obtain a distribution image of an elastic modulus of the tissue of the subject as well as a tomographic image of the subject with a simple operation of only applying a probe to the subject without the necessity for a special connection between the subject and the device.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种发送单元（102）和用于相对于被摄体发送和接收超声波的接收单元（103），用于分析接收信号的组织跟踪单元（115），以跟踪所述组织的移动 对象和属性检测单元（120），用于检测与被检体的组织移动有关的属性。 属性检测单元（120）使接收到的信号，多普勒频移中的任何一个和对象的组织的移动信号处理，检测与主体的组织的移动相关的属性，该属性与 心跳，并且基于检测到的属性生成初始化脉冲。 组织跟踪单元（115）由初始化脉冲初始化。 可以通过简单的操作来获得被检体的组织的弹性模量的分布图像，而不需要在被检体和被检体之间进行特殊的连接。 装置。