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AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Shikata, Hideki Kosaku, Takashi Takeuchi
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An ultrasound diagnosis system including a motor driving multi-plane ultrasound probe for acquiring image data at a voluntary scanning plane in a body of a patient is provided. The data acquisition is performed by driving rotation of a plurality of transducers arranged in a head portion of the probe toward a target angle of a prescribed rotation range by driving an arranged surface of the plurality transducers so as to make a plurality of scanning planes toward a first direction in a normal mode. The driving direction of the head portion is automatically reversed by 180 degrees to a second direction opposite to the first direction at a high speed in a reverse mode when the rotation angle of the head portion arrives at the target angle. The reversed head portion can continue to acquire image data at the same scanning planes to the previous scanning planes of the rotation drive to the first direction.
An ultrasound diagnosis system including a motor driving a multi-plane ultrasound probe for acquiring image data at a voluntary scanning plane by rotating a plurality of transducers arranged in a head portion in a prescribed target angle range, the ultrasound diagnosis system comprising:
A scanning method for an ultrasound diagnosis system including a motor driving a multi-plane type ultrasound probe for acquiring image data at voluntary rotation angles by rotating a plurality of transducers arranged in a head portion toward a target rotation angle, the scanning method comprising:
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