Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorHideaki NAKAJIMA
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Abstract
A scanning range for a B-mode image is divided into a plurality of scanning regions, and a division transmission and reception is performed in which transmission and reception for each scanning region and transmission and reception that targets a region of interest for a color flow are alternately repeated. A control unit determines a transmission and reception condition of the division transmission and reception based on required speed information required in a color flow image, and controls the division transmission and reception by a transmission and reception unit in accordance with the determined transmission and reception condition.
Claims10
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising:
- a transmission and reception unit that, upon performing transmission and reception for a B-mode image for each scanning region over a plurality of scanning regions obtained by dividing a scanning range of the B-mode image and performing transmission and reception for a color flow that targets a region of interest set within the scanning range, performs a division transmission and reception in which the transmission and reception for each scanning region and the transmission and reception that targets the region of interest are alternately repeated;
- an image forming unit that forms a color flow image that shows speed information on a B-mode image, the speed information being based on reception information obtained from the region of interest, and the B-mode image being based on reception information obtained from the scanning range including the plurality of scanning regions;
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- a control unit that determines a transmission and reception condition for the division transmission and reception based on required speed information required in the color flow image and controls the division transmission and reception by the transmission and reception unit according to the determined transmission and reception condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.