Subject information acquisition apparatus and subject information acquisition method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshinobu Tokita
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Abstract
A subject information acquisition apparatus includes a first holding member that holds a subject, a probe that receives an elastic wave from the subject through the first holding member, a first holding member deformation amount measuring unit that measures an amount of deformation of the first holding member, and a processing unit that creates an area for generating subject information by using the amount of deformation of the first holding member and position information of the first holding member deformation amount measuring unit and generates an information value of subject information corresponding to the area for generating subject information by using a signal outputted by the probe.
Claims10
A subject information acquisition apparatus comprising:
- a first holding member configured to hold a subject;
- a probe configured to receive an elastic wave from the subject through the first holding member;
- a first holding member deformation amount measuring unit configured to measure an amount of deformation of the first holding member;
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- a processing unit configured to create an area for generating subject information by using the amount of deformation of the first holding member and position information of the first holding member deformation amount measuring unit and generate an information value of subject information corresponding to the area for generating subject information by using a signal outputted by the probe.
A subject information acquisition method comprising:
- a step of receiving an elastic wave from a subject through a first holding member by a probe;
- a step of acquiring distribution information of amounts of deformation of the first holding member;
- a step of creating an area for acquiring subject information based on the distribution information of amounts of deformation of the first holding member;
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- a step of generating an information value of subject information corresponding to the area for acquiring subject information from a signal outputted by the probe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.