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US 2018/0280000 A1Published application
Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and ultrasonic diagnostic assistance method
AssigneeCanon Medical Systems Corporation
InventorsYuki TAMANO, Taketoshi NAGAI, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic transducers and a calculation circuitry. The calculation circuitry calculates part of delay data relating to a delay time which is set in each of the ultrasonic transducers, before transmission of ultrasonic waves.
Claims7
An ultrasonic probe comprising:
- a plurality of ultrasonic transducers;
- and
- a calculation circuitry that calculates part of delay data relating to a delay time which is set in each of the ultrasonic transducers, before transmission of ultrasonic waves.
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising:
- an ultrasonic probe which comprises:
- a plurality of ultrasonic transducers;
- and
- a calculation circuitry that calculates part of delay data relating to a delay time which is set in each of the ultrasonic transducers, before transmission of ultrasonic waves;
- and
- a processor that calculates remaining delay data of the delay data.
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An ultrasonic diagnostic assistance method comprising:
- allocating a calculation process of delay data relating to a delay time which is set in each of ultrasonic transducers to a calculation circuitry included in an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus body, before transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves,
- causing the calculation circuitry of the ultrasonic probe to calculate part of the delay data, and
- causing the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus body to calculate remaining data of the delay data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.