Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Shouichi Nakauchi

Takashi Masuda

Tomio Nabatame

Takashi Koyakumaru

Tomoko Suzuki

Naohisa Kamiyama

Tatsuro Baba

Osamu Nakajima

Eiji Goto

Shunsuke Satoh

Takayuki Gunji

Naoki Yoneyama

Kousuke Namiki

Kazuo Tezuka

Norihisa Kikuchi

Kouji Ando

Shigemitsu Nakaya

Takeshi Sugio

Yoshinori Goto

According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus can be connected with an ultrasound probe including a plurality of elements adapted to transmit ultrasound signals and to receive reflected wave signals from a subject or from the air. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry diagnoses states of the elements based on a feature value of the reflected wave signal. The processing circuitry also prepares, based on the states, deterioration degree information indicative of the deterioration degrees of the elements. The processing circuitry superimposes the deterioration degree information onto an ultrasound image of the subject and causes a display to display a resultant image.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for diagnosing ultrasound probe

According to one embodiment, an ultrasound image diagnosis apparatus includes a display and a control circuit. The display is configured to display an ultrasound image generated based on an echo signal of ultrasound waves transmitted to a site to be diagnosed. The control circuit is configured to measure a measurement target on the ultrasound image of the site to be diagnosed displayed on the display. The control circuit performs a definition function to define the distance between a caliper used to measure the measurement target and a guide used to arrange the caliper at the position of the measurement target, a display control function to control the display of the caliper and the guide arranged to be separated by the distance defined such that the caliper and the guide are integrally movable on the ultrasound image, and a measurement function to measure the measurement target using the caliper.

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

A medical image diagnosis apparatus includes a capturing part configured to photograph a target site of a subject to capture a medical image. The medical image diagnosis apparatus further includes a positional information acquisition unit, a guideline generator, and a display processor. The positional information acquisition unit acquires the positional information of a puncture needle inserted into of the subject. The guideline generator generates a guideline that indicates an insertion route for the puncture needle to reach the target site based on the positional information. The guideline includes scales graduated at predetermined intervals. The display processor displays the guideline with the medical image.

Medical image diagnosis apparatus

According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an ultrasound probe that transmits/receives ultrasound waves to/from a subject, a reference position member arranged on the ultrasound probe, and a sensor located in a position having a predetermined positional relationship relative to a puncture needle. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus further includes a position information acquisition unit, a needle length information acquisition unit, and a display. The position information acquisition unit acquires position information of the reference position member and the sensor. The needle length information acquisition unit acquires needle length information indicating the length of the puncture needle based on the position information of the reference position member and the sensor when the tip of the puncture needle is in contact with the reference position member, and the relative position. The display displays information to guide a puncture by the puncture needle based on the needle length information.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and medical image diagnosis apparatus

According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus includes a storage unit storing data of a three-dimensional image, a slice image generating unit generating three slice images associated with three slices from the three-dimensional image, a display unit displaying the three slice images respectively in three display areas, an ROI marker generating unit generating three ROI markers to be respectively superimposed on the displayed three slice images, the three ROI markers corresponding to a single ROI, an operation unit performing operation of changing relative positions between the three slice images and the three ROI markers, and a display control unit controlling move the three slice images in the three display areas in accordance with the operation of changing the relative positions and fix the three ROI markers at center positions of the three display areas.

Medical image display apparatus and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus

According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises a Doppler processing unit which generates a Doppler spectrum from an ultrasonic signal reflected from a predetermined region in a heart, a trace waveform generation unit which generates temporal changes in a predetermined spectrum component in the Doppler spectrum as a plurality of trace waveforms, a corrected trace waveform generation unit which generates a corrected trace waveform with the loss being interpolated by using a trace waveform, of the plurality of trace waveforms, which has a loss portion, and at least one estimation point input for the trace waveform, and an output unit which outputs a plurality of trace waveforms including the corrected trace waveform.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, doppler measurement apparatus, and Doppler measurement method

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Nasushiobara, Japan

Shouichi Nakauchi