US 10,499,815 B2 · Object information acquiring apparatus

Abstract

Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including a supporting unit configured to be capable of holding a liquid acoustic matching member, a plurality of receiving elements each supported on the supporting unit to receive an acoustic wave propagated from an object via the acoustic matching member and output an electrical signal, a scanning unit that changes a relative position of each of the receiving elements and the object by moving the supporting unit, a controlling unit that controls a velocity of movement of the supporting unit performed by the scanning unit, and a processing unit that acquires specific information of an inside of the object based on the electrical signal. The scanning unit moves the supporting unit on a path having portions of different curvatures.

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Dependent claims

An object information acquiring apparatus comprising:

a supporting unit configured to be capable of holding liquid acoustic matching member;
a plurality of receiving elements each supported on the supporting unit to receive an acoustic wave propagated from an object via the acoustic matching member and output an electrical signal;
a scanning unit that changes a relative position of the plurality of receiving elements and the object by moving the supporting unit;
a controlling unit that controls a velocity of movement of the supporting unit performed by the scanning unit;
and
a processing unit that acquires specific information of an inside of the object based on the electrical signal,
wherein the scanning unit moves the supporting unit on a path having portions of different curvatures, and
the controlling unit controls the movement velocity in accordance with a magnitude of the curvature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Object information acquiring apparatus

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Abstract

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