Ultrasonograph and method and program for generating ultrasonotomographic image

Abstract

An ultrasonograph is provided with a frequency component adjuster that adjusts spatial frequency components of original image data RAW0 of an ultrasonotomographic image. The frequency component adjuster is constituted of an unsharp image data generator, a subtraction circuit, a weighting circuit, an integration circuit, a multiplication circuit and an addition circuit. The unsharp image data generator circuit generates unsharp image data RAWi (i=1 to 5) by reducing the spatial frequency components of the original image data RAW0 in five steps. The subtraction circuit generates differential image data ΔRAWj (j=1 to 4) by subtracting the unsharp image data RAW1 from RAWi-1. The weighting circuit weights the differential image data ΔRAWj by multiplying them by respective coefficients kj (−1<kj<1). The integration circuit integrates the differential image data ΔRAWj to generate adjusted image data RAW_En. The addition circuit adds the adjusted image data RAW_En to the original image data RAW0 to generate output image data RAW_out.

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