Konica Minolta, Inc.

Shinya Kurokawa

Akihiro Kawabata

Masashi Kunita

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, including a transceiver for sequentially generating multiple received signals, a color flow mapping signal processing unit that generates blood flow velocity data based on the multiple received signals, and a residual image processing unit that includes an aliasing determination unit and a persistence calculation unit and performs residual image processing on blood flow velocity data, an aliasing determination unit that adds the blood flow velocity data Vfor the most recent frame and the blood flow velocity data Vfor the frame preceding the most recent frame, performs aliasing determination on the frame that was determined by a frame before the most recent frame based on the aliasing determination results of the blood flow velocity data, and a persistence calculation unit that performs a persistence calculation after performing a correction to the blood flow velocity data in which aliasing has occurred.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that can combine image data and has a first image mode and a second image mode, includes: a hardware processor that sets a scan parameter of an image of a first image mode according to restriction information of the scan parameter, when the second image mode is turned on and generates control information; a transmitter that generates a drive signal and inputs the drive signal to an ultrasound probe that transmits transmission ultrasound to a test object and receives reflected ultrasound; a receiver that generates a reception signal of the images in the first and second image modes from an electric signal generated in the ultrasound probe; a first-image-mode image generator that generates first-image-mode image data; a second-image-mode image generator that generates second-image-mode image data; and a combiner that generates combined image data by combining the generated first-image-mode image data and second-image-mode image data.

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Hino, Japan

Shinya Kurokawa