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US 12,678,140 B2Granted
Diagnostic ultrasound apparatus and storage medium
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorTetsuya Taniguchi
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Abstract
A diagnostic ultrasound apparatus includes: a sound ray signal generator that generates a sound ray signal based on a reception signal obtained from an ultrasound probe that transmits and receives ultrasound to and from a subject; an imaging signal generator that performs filtering of passing different bands on the sound ray signal to generate multiple imaging signals from the sound ray signal; and a calculator that performs an arithmetic operation among the imaging signals.
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A diagnostic ultrasound apparatus comprising:
- a sound ray signal generator that generates a sound ray signal based on a reception signal obtained from an ultrasound probe that transmits and receives ultrasound to and from a subject;
- an imaging signal generator that performs filtering of passing different bands on the sound ray signal to generate multiple imaging signals from the sound ray signal;
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- a calculator that performs a multiplication operation among the imaging signals, wherein the multiplication operation is a multiplication of brightness values of corresponding pixels at the same position in respective images that correspond to the imaging signals,
- wherein the calculator performs a power root calculation process on an arithmetically-processed imaging signal that is obtained by the multiplication operation among the imaging signals, the power root calculation process corresponding to the number of the imaging signals.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as:
- a sound ray signal generator that generates a sound ray signal based on a reception signal obtained from an ultrasound probe that transmits and receives ultrasound to and from a subject;
- an imaging signal generator that performs filtering of passing different bands on the sound ray signal to generate multiple imaging signals from the sound ray signal;
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- a calculator that performs a multiplication operation among the imaging signals, wherein the multiplication operation is a multiplication of brightness values of corresponding pixels at the same position in respective images that correspond to the imaging signals,
- wherein the calculator performs a power root calculation process on an arithmetically-processed imaging signal that is obtained by the multiplication operation among the imaging signals, the power root calculation process corresponding to the number of the imaging signals.
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