Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090005683 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD - An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a probe that transmits an ultrasonic pulse to an object to be detected and receives a reflection ultrasonic pulse train from the object to be detected, a sound pressure amplitude control device for automatically changing, with one frame including a repetition of the transmission and the reception which acquires a piece of tomographic image information of the object to be detected as a minimum change unit, a sound amplitude of the ultrasonic pulse according to an acquisition number of a frame indicative of an order of the acquisition, and a display unit that displays the tomographic image information. | 01-01-2009 |
20090054775 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a contrast image creating device which transmits each of contrast imaging transmission pulses and creates a contrast image, based on a received signal corresponding contrast imaging transmission pulse; a first reference image creating device which creates a reference image using the received signal corresponding to the contrast imaging transmission pulse; a second reference image creating device which transmits a reference transmission pulse different in frequency from the contrast imaging transmission pulse and creates a reference image, based on a received signal corresponding to the reference transmission pulse; a switching device which selects one of the first reference image creating device and the second reference image creating device and activates the same; and an image display device which displays the contrast image and the reference image side by side or displays the same in superimposed form. | 02-26-2009 |
20090112097 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD - An ultrasound imaging apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit for emitting ultrasound waves to a subject administered with a contrast agent and for obtaining a B-mode image of the subject; an image memory unit for storing a plurality of B-mode images, obtained by emitting ultrasound waves to the subject at a sound pressure destroying the contrast agent; and a combination image formation device for forming a combination image from a plurality of the B-mode images. | 04-30-2009 |
20090171215 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes an image obtaining unit for irradiating an imaging region in a subject to which a contrast agent is injected with an ultrasonic wave and obtaining tomographic image information that draws the imaging region, an input unit for inputting scan parameter value information which is set in the image obtaining unit and a target sound pressure parameter value of a sound pressure parameter as an index of an estimated sound pressure in the subject, an estimated maximum sound pressure parameter value calculating device, at the time of performing the irradiation, for calculating an estimated maximum sound pressure parameter value in the subject on the basis of the scan parameter value information and maximum drive voltage information of a piezoelectric transducer group for generating the ultrasonic wave, and a maximum drive voltage optimization device, each time the scan parameter value information is changed, for comparing the estimated maximum sound pressure parameter value calculated by using the estimated maximum sound pressure parameter value calculating device and the target sound pressure parameter value with each other and optimizing the maximum drive voltage value of the maximum drive voltage information. | 07-02-2009 |
20090177087 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS - An ultrasonic imaging apparatus performs a plurality of times an action to transmit ultrasonic pulses to a subject, receives said plurality of times the reflected ultrasonic pulse train of said ultrasonic pulses reflected from said subject, generates one line of sound ray information by using said plurality of reflected ultrasonic pulse trains, and forms image information in which items of said sound ray information differing in the position or the direction of said transmission and said reception are arrayed. Said ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: a B mode processing unit which forms B mode image information by using any one of said plurality of reflected ultrasonic pulse trains; a kinetic information detecting unit which detects kinetic information on said subject on the basis of said B mode image information; and a motion compensating unit which compensates image information for motions on the basis of said kinetic information. | 07-09-2009 |
20090299181 | DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - A diagnostic imaging apparatus includes an image generation device for generating a plurality of images of a subject for display in a display device, the plurality of images including a first image generated for display at a first display magnification and other images generated for display at other display magnification different from the first display magnification, and a marking setting device which sets a first marking to indicate a region of interest on the first image and other markings on the other images, the other markings being displayed, based on the other display magnification, in a position corresponding to the position of the first marking set on the first image. | 12-03-2009 |
20100081938 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a display device for displaying an ultrasonic image of a subject has been given a contrast medium, a setting device for setting a region of interest in an ultrasonic image displayed in the display device, and a computing device for computing a time intensity curve indicating time change in the average brightness of the pixels in a set region of interest. The computing device excludes pixels corresponding to a non-observed object in a region of interest when computing a time intensity curve. | 04-01-2010 |
20140005549 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
20140303500 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a display controller configured to cause an image to be displayed, wherein the image is generated using a map that includes two or more parameters as axes, the two or more parameters selected from inflow parameters each indicative of a state of inflow of a contrast agent administered to a subject and outflow parameters each indicative of a state of outflow of the contrast agent. | 10-09-2014 |