Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Naoyuki Nakazawa

Masatoshi Nishino

Naoki Yoneyama

Kazutoshi Sadamitsu

Norihisa Kikuchi

Yoshitaka Mine

Atsushi Sumi

Cong Yao

Takatoshi Okumura

Jiro Higuchi

Yutaka Kobayashi

Kazuo Tezuka

Atsushi Nakai

Masami Takahashi

According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an image processing circuit and a processing circuit. The image processing circuit generates an ultrasound image. The processing circuit receives a medical image acquired by another medical image diagnosis apparatus, and aligns the ultrasound image and the medical image. The processing circuit has a function of recognizing identification information held by the medical image when the ultrasound image and the medical image are displayed side by side on a display. The processing circuit also has a function of retrieving diagnostic protocol information corresponding to the identification information and displaying it on the display, and a function of performing examinations and processes based on the diagnostic protocol information displayed.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, medical image diagnosis apparatus, and computer program product

In one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a probe configured to be equipped with plural transducers arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and be able to perform a two-dimensional scan in the first and second directions; a moving device configured to support the probe and mechanically move the probe in the second direction; a receiving circuit configured to generate first reception signals for respective moving positions of the probe in the second direction by performing receiving phase-compensation and summation processing on respective reflected signals received by the plurality of transducers at each of the moving positions; and processing circuitry configured to generate a second reception signal by performing moving aperture synthesis on the first reception signals generated for the respective moving positions of the probe based on positional information of the probe and generate image data from the second reception signal.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus using synthetic and moving aperture synthesis

Growing community of inventors

Otawara, Japan

Naoyuki Nakazawa