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AssigneeFUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
InventorsTomohiko Tanaka, Ryo Imai, Misaki Hiroshima, Kenichi Kawabata, Hiroshi Kuribara
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In a transcatheter treatment support technique using a combination of a guide wire equipped with a photoacoustic technique and an ultrasonic imaging device, the ultrasonic imaging device estimates a front edge position of the guide wire using a difference between arrival times of photoacoustic waves arriving at an array of elements configuring an ultrasonic probe or a change of an image of the photoacoustic generation source, which depends on a distance of the photoacoustic generation source from an imaging region, and grasps a relationship between an imaging position and the front edge position of the guide wire using the estimation result. This enables visually grasping a relationship between a region (imaging region) from which an image is able to be obtained with reflective waves from a biological body with use of the ultrasonic probe and an insertion object present outside the region, particularly, the front edge of the guide wire.
An ultrasonic imaging device characterized by comprising:
An image processing method that receives reflective waves of an ultrasonic signal radiated onto an object under examination via an ultrasonic probe, which includes a plurality of elements, generates an ultrasonic image of a region onto which the ultrasonic signal has been radiated, receives, via the ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic waves generated by an ultrasonic wave generation source inserted into an inside of the object under examination, detects a position of the ultrasonic wave generation source with respect to the region with use of the received ultrasonic waves, and displays the detected position together with the ultrasonic image, the image processing method characterized by comprising:
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