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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2014
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an ultrasound imaging apparatus that can reduce vertical stripes even though a transmission interval is widened for high speed imaging. When a receiving unitreceives an instruction to perform a high speed imaging mode, an aperture synthesizing unitadds a predetermined number (N) of phase outputs obtained from the reflected ultrasonic waves of individual transmission beams at the same received focal points to reduce the occurrence of stripes on an image. In order to generate N phase outputs at each of the received focal points, a control unitfinds a necessary number (M) of the reception scanning lines to be set by the reception beam former, and notifies the reception beam formerof the number.