ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240000439A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18468339

    申请日:2023-09-15

    Inventor: Yukiya MIYACHI

    CPC classification number: A61B8/54 A61B8/4245 A61B8/461

    Abstract: According to the present invention, in an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, an ultrasound image generation unit is configured to generate an ultrasound image from a reception signal obtained by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound beam to and from an examination area of a subject under examination using the ultrasound probe, and an optical camera is configured to generate an optical image by imaging the subject under examination including the ultrasound probe during examination of the examination area. A probe recognition section is configured to recognize the ultrasound probe from the optical image, and a trimming section is configured to generate a trimmed image by trimming a region including the ultrasound probe from the optical image in a case where the ultrasound probe is recognized. Then, a display control unit is configured to display the ultrasound image and the trimmed image on a monitor. With this, it is possible to enlarge and display an optical image representing a position and an orientation of the ultrasound probe during the examination of the examination area on the monitor.

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200214680A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16826714

    申请日:2020-03-23

    Inventor: Yukiya MIYACHI

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus including: an ultrasound probe; a processor configured to perform transmission of ultrasound beam from the ultrasound probe to a subject to acquire an ultrasound image; a camera configured to acquire a digital image of a state of the ultrasound probe being in contact with the subject; a touch panel including a display screen displaying the ultrasound image and the digital image; an interface to receive instruction to acquire the ultrasound image and/or the digital image from a user; and a memory configured to store the ultrasound image and the digital image, wherein the processor is further configured to: exclusively control between the acquisition of the ultrasound image and the acquisition of the digital image according to instruction received by the interface; and save the ultrasound image and the digital image of the same inspection in the memory in association with each other.

    ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD
    3.
    发明申请
    ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD 审中-公开
    超声信号处理装置和超声信号处理方法

    公开(公告)号:US20150065885A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-05

    申请号:US14537613

    申请日:2014-11-10

    Inventor: Yukiya MIYACHI

    Abstract: An ultrasonic signal processing method includes: acquiring pieces of element data output from each element included in an ultrasonic probe including multiple elements configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to a subject, receive an ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject and output an ultrasonic detection signal; determining element data to be preserved, according to depth information on a reception echo at an acquisition time of the element data, among the pieces of element data of each of the acquired elements; and preserving the element data determined to be preserved.

    Abstract translation: 一种超声波信号处理方法,其特征在于,包括:从包含在构成为向被检体发送超声波的多个要素的超声波探头中的各元素输出的元件数据,接收被检体反射的超声波,并输出超声波检测信号; 根据在元素数据的获取时间的接收回波的深度信息来确定要被保留的元素数据中的每个所获取元素的元素数据; 并保存确定要保留的元素数据。

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220117586A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-21

    申请号:US17563829

    申请日:2021-12-28

    Inventor: Yukiya MIYACHI

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2) and a diagnostic apparatus main body (3) that are wirelessly connected, the ultrasound probe (2) includes a detection unit (16) that generates complex baseband signals, an averaging unit (17) that averages the complex baseband signals at a plurality of sampling points in a Doppler gate set on a B-mode image to acquire average complex baseband signals, and a probe-side wireless communication circuit (20) that wirelessly transmits the average complex baseband signals, and the diagnostic apparatus main body (3) includes a main body-side wireless communication circuit (31) that receives the average complex baseband signals, and a Doppler image generation unit (33) that performs a frequency analysis on the average complex baseband signals to generate a Doppler image, and displays the Doppler image on a monitor (36).

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210022704A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US17037825

    申请日:2020-09-30

    Abstract: The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound image generation apparatus and method transmit ultrasound waves to a subject into which a puncture tool is inserted, receive reflected waves reflected from the subject and the puncture tool, and generate echo signals of time-sequential frames based on the received reflected waves, and generate an ultrasound image of the subject based on the generated echo signals. These apparatus and method generate a differential echo signal between time-sequential frames from the echo signals, perform a tip detection process based on the differential echo signal to thereby detect at least one tip candidate including a tip end of the puncture tool, highlight a tip candidate of the puncture tool detected to thereby generate a tip image, and display the tip image of the highlighted puncture tool so as to be superimposed on the generated ultrasound image.

    ULTRASOUND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ULTRASOUND SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210015460A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-21

    申请号:US17062692

    申请日:2020-10-05

    Inventor: Yukiya MIYACHI

    Abstract: An ultrasound system 1 includes an ultrasound probe 2 and an image display device 3. The ultrasound probe 2 includes a transducer array 11, a transmitting and receiving unit 14 that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves using the transducer array 11 to generate a sound ray signal; a frame image information data generation unit 20 that generates frame image information data from the sound ray signal; and a wireless communication unit 19 that transmits a plurality of frame image information data items to the image display device. The image display device 3 includes a frame type determination unit 33 that determines frame types of the plurality of frame image information data items, a combination determination unit 34 that determines whether or not to combine the frame image information data items on the basis of the frame types, a compound image data generation unit 35 that combines the plurality of frame image information data items, and a display unit 37 that displays a compound image.

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200008782A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16572020

    申请日:2019-09-16

    Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of synchronizing emission of light from a light source device emitting light for generating a photoacoustic wave and reception in an ultrasound probe with high accuracy. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a sub-controller that has a synchronization signal generation unit and controls an ultrasound probe based on a first synchronization signal generated by the synchronization signal generation unit, an image generation unit that generates an ultrasound image based on a signal detected by the ultrasound probe, and a connector that has a synchronization signal line for transmitting a second synchronization signal generated in the synchronization signal generation unit and outputs the second synchronization signal to the outside through the synchronization signal line. The connector is configured such that a photoacoustic wave light source unit emitting light incident on a puncture needle having a photoacoustic wave generation unit is connectable.

    PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200008683A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-09

    申请号:US16573594

    申请日:2019-09-17

    Inventor: Yukiya MIYACHI

    Abstract: An insert having a photoacoustic wave generation portion, an acoustic wave detection unit that detects photoacoustic waves and reflected acoustic waves, a photoacoustic image generation unit that generates a photoacoustic image on the basis of the photoacoustic waves, an image output unit that outputs information on the basis of the photoacoustic waves detected by the acoustic wave detection unit, a tip position detection unit that detects that a tip portion of the insert is disposed at a predetermined detection position with respect to the acoustic wave detection unit, and a control unit that displays information on the basis of intensity of a detection signal of the photoacoustic waves generated from the photoacoustic wave generation portion on image display as an insert inspection mode in a case where it is detected that the tip portion of the insert is disposed at the predetermined detection position are included.

    ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20190209121A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-11

    申请号:US16299964

    申请日:2019-03-12

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic system includes an ultrasound diagnostic device that creates test images of an intima-media thickness of a blood vessel, a workstation connected to the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a database that sequentially stores the test images created by the ultrasound diagnostic device. The workstation includes an input unit for allowing a user to input various kinds of information, a display unit, a workstation control unit that retrieves test images in past tests for the patient as past images from the test images stored in the database to make the display unit display the past images stored in the database as thumbnails, after a current image that is a test image of a current test are created for the patient by the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a test report creation unit that automatically creates a test report on the basis of the current image, and at least one past image selected by the user via the input unit from the past images displayed as the thumbnails on the display unit.

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