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20090015587 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A transmitter/receiver transmits and receives ultrasonic waves to and from a desired region of a subject via an ultrasonic probe. A signal processor obtains a plurality of physical quantities from signals outputted by the transmitter/receiver having received ultrasonic echoes from the subject. A voxel-value generator generates a voxel value containing the plurality of physical quantities. An image generator generates a three-dimensional image by using the plurality of physical quantities including any of the rate, power value or dispersion of a blood flow contained in the voxel value and sequentially executing a rendering process on each voxel. A display controller controls a display to display the generated three-dimensional image. | 01-15-2009 |
20090198134 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is configured as follows. Namely, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided with a control unit which collets a heart synchronized signal, etc. synchronizing with workings of a heart of a patient, etc., and an image processing unit which detects an overlapped area of the three-dimensional data acquired by ultrasonic scanning from different echo windows, for the three dimensional image data group acquired in the same time phase in synchronization with the heart synchronized signal or aspiration synchronized signal, combines the three-dimensional image data, and generates a panorama three-dimensional image data group consisting of panorama three-dimensional image data which are continued in time and have a display area larger than each of the three-dimensional image data. | 08-06-2009 |
20120095341 | ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment acquires first and second volume data by scanning a three-dimensional region including the lumen of an object in a B mode and a blood flow detection mode with ultrasonic waves, sets a viewpoint and a plurality of lines of sight with reference to the viewpoint in the lumen, determines a line of sight, of the plurality of lines of sight, on which data corresponding to an intraluminal region, tissue data corresponding to the outside of the lumen, and blood flow data outside the lumen are arranged. The apparatus controls at least a parameter value attached to each voxel of the tissue data existing on the determined line of sight. The apparatus generates a virtual endoscopic image based on the viewpoint by using the first volume data including voxels whose parameter values are controlled and the second volume data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120113111 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND IMAGE DATA DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - An ultrasonic diagnosis system that generates virtual endoscopic image data on a lumen of an organ of an object based on volume data acquired by three-dimensional scanning of the object, includes: a unit that sets a three-dimensional region of interest for the volume data; a unit that sets a center line of the lumen of the organ in the volume data based on the acquired volume data; a unit that detects a reference point at which a reference plane of the three-dimensional region of interest and the center line intersect with each other; a unit that sets a viewpoint and a view direction based on the reference point; a virtual endoscopic image data generating unit that processes the volume data based on the viewpoint and the view direction to generate the virtual endoscopic image data; and a display unit that displays the generated virtual endoscopic image data. | 05-10-2012 |
20130004047 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a gain adjustment unit executes gain adjustment for 3D B-mode data using gain adjustment values respectively decided for the depth on each scanning line, azimuth direction and elevation direction in a scanned region. A threshold decision unit decides a threshold used for discriminating lumen and non-lumen regions in the scanned region using the gain-adjustment-executed 3D B-mode data. A threshold processing unit executes threshold processing to discriminate data concerning the non-lumen region from the gain-adjustment-executed 3D B-mode data, using the threshold. An image generation unit generates an ultrasonic image concerning the lumen region based on the threshold-processing-executed 3D B-mode data. | 01-03-2013 |
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20090101600 | HIGHLY DURABLE POROUS PVDF FILM, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME AND WASHING METHOD AND FILTRATION METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a PVDF porous film, which has high water permeability and high chemical resistance to washing chemicals and the like that has been difficult to realize with conventional polymer porous films, and which can be used over a prolonged period of time; and a method of producing the same and the like. Namely, the present invention provides a porous film in which the degree of crystallization of the PVDF resin is 50% or more but not more than 90%, and the product of the degree of crystallization of the PVDF resin and the specific surface area of the film is 300 (%·m | 04-23-2009 |
20110165308 | POROUS MEMBRANE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS MEMBRANE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CLARIFIED LIQUID, AND POROUS-MEMBRANE MODULE - A porous membrane with the membrane wall constructed of a hydrophobic polymer and a hydrophilic polymer, wherein when the membrane wall is divided into 3 sections in the film thickness direction to form region “a” containing one wall surface A of the membrane wall, region “c” containing the other wall surface C and region “b” between region “a” and region “c”, the hydrophilic polymer content ratio C | 07-07-2011 |
20110210067 | USE OF POROUS HOLLOW-FIBER MEMBRANE FOR PRODUCING CLARIFIED BIOMEDICAL CULTURE MEDIUM - Use of a porous hollow fiber membrane for producing a clarified biomedical culture medium by a method including a filtration step of distributing a biomedical culture medium over the porous hollow fiber membrane, a tube wall of the hollow fiber membrane being constituted of a blend of a hydrophobic polymer and polyvinylpyrrolidone. A content of the polyvinylpyrrolidone is not lower than 0.2% by mass and not higher than 3% by mass relative to a total mass of the porous hollow fiber membrane, and, when the tube wall is divided in a membrane-thickness direction equally into three regions, a content of the polyvinylpyrrolidone in an outer circumferential region including an outer face is higher than a content of the polyvinylpyrrolidone in an inner circumferential region including an inner face, and an average pore size in the inner face is larger than an average pore size in the outer face. | 09-01-2011 |
20130292866 | POROUS MEMBRANE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS MEMBRANE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CLARIFIED LIQUID, AND POROUS-MEMBRANE MODULE - A porous membrane with the membrane wall constructed of a hydrophobic polymer and a hydrophilic polymer, wherein when the membrane wall is divided into 3 sections in the film thickness direction to form region “a” containing one wall surface A of the membrane wall, region “c” containing the other wall surface C and region “b” between region “a” and region “c”, the hydrophilic polymer content ratio C | 11-07-2013 |
20140091037 | POROUS MEMBRANE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS MEMBRANE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CLARIFIED LIQUID, AND POROUS-MEMBRANE MODULE - A porous membrane with the membrane wall constructed of a hydrophobic polymer and a hydrophilic polymer, wherein when the membrane wall is divided into 3 sections in the film thickness direction to form region “a” containing one wall surface A of the membrane wall, region “c” containing the other wall surface C and region “b” between region “a” and region “c”, the hydrophilic polymer content ratio C | 04-03-2014 |
20150053601 | MEMBRANE MODULE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - The membrane module according to the present invention comprises a tubular case, and a membrane fixed with a resin and accommodated in the state where filtered water is capable of being taken out from at least one end of the tubular case, in the tubular case, wherein the resin has an elution rate of chloride ions per unit surface area and per unit time of less than 10 μg/(m | 02-26-2015 |
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20120218383 | VIDEO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND VIDEO OUTPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a video output apparatus includes an input module, an output module, and a transmitter. The input module is configured to input a 2D content and a 3D content. The output module is configured to alternately output a first image and a second image required to display images having a parallax at image output timings based on the 3D content, and to repetitively output 2D content images at the image output timings based on the 2D content. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to 3D image glasses which open and close a right-eye shutter and a left-eye shutter, timing control signals, which indicate open/close timings of the right-eye shutter and the left-eye shutter in synchronism with the image output timings of the output module, for both the 2D content and the 3D content. | 08-30-2012 |
20120324260 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR SAVING POWER, AND METHOD OF SAVING POWER IN AN APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a transceiver acquires actual consumption data and predicted consumption data for each time slot, from a power supply management system. A data analysis block analyzes the actual consumption data and the predicted consumption data, and generates graph data representing a graph showing a result of the analysis. A display control block causes a display device to display the graph and a power-save line in the graph. A power-save line control block moves the power-save line to a desired position and utilizes a value associated with the desired position as a value at which to start power saving. A command signal output block outputs a power-save command signal to an apparatus which should save power, if the actual consumption data and/or the predicted consumption data exceed the value indicated by the power-save line. | 12-20-2012 |