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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2010
Hiroaki Shimokawa, Sendai, JP;
Hiroshi Kanai, Sendai, JP;
Takashi Mochiduki, Mitaka, JP;
Yoshinori Seki, Mitaka, JP;
Hiroaki Shimokawa, Sendai, JP;
Hiroshi Kanai, Sendai, JP;
Takashi Mochiduki, Mitaka, JP;
Yoshinori Seki, Mitaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, Sendai-shi, JP;
Abstract
When a user designates a treatment range on a diagnostic image, a switch () selects a transmitter for treatment (). Ultrasound with intensity for treatment is thereby transmitted from a probe () to the inside of an organism. When the treatment operation continues for a prescribed time, a control unit () controls the switch () to select a transmitter for diagnosis (). The probe () thereby emits an ultrasound beam for diagnosis, senses an echo thereof, generates a diagnostic image, and carries out an inspection of a positional shift of the site to be treated. In the inspection, the control unit () compares the diagnostic image with a reference image, and if a significant difference is detected therebetween, determines that a shift has occurred, issues an alarm, and urges the user to correct the positional shift. It is possible to resume the treatment when the positional shift has been corrected.