Ultrasonic image diagnostic apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorTakehiro Yoshimura
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Abstract
An image processor includes a signal processing circuit for performing signal processing on three-dimensional echo signals transmitted from an ultrasonic 3D probe, a memory for storing at least one set of plural sets of three-dimensional echo data converted by the signal processing circuit, a large capacity storage unit, a control circuit for controlling input/output signals from an input unit, an image processing circuit for performing image processing such as coordinate conversion based on the three-dimensional echo data stored in the memory, a display circuit for displaying the ultrasonic three-dimensional image processed by the image processing circuit, and a CPU for performing calculation for “volume measurement”. Accordingly, a tissue of interest can be easily and accurately measured.
Claims5
An ultrasonic image diagnostic apparatus capable of performing three-dimensional ultrasonic scanning on a subject, and displaying an arbitrary first tomographic image of the subject and a second tomographic image perpendicular to the first tomographic image, by using ultrasonic data in a three-dimensional region obtained according to the ultrasonic scanning, comprising:
- measurement line setting means for setting segments to be measured, for two systems applied to the first tomographic image, and for one system applied to the second tomographic image;
- measurement means for performing volume measurement based on the segments set by the measurement line setting means;
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- display means for displaying a measurement result and a measurement range obtained by the measurement means.
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