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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
May. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Inventors:
Yu Igarashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaki Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuko Kanayama, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasunori Honjo, Kawasaki, JP;
Tetsuya Kawagishi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/5238 (2013.01); A61B 8/5269 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus in an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to cause an ultrasonic probe to perform an ultrasound scan of a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a shadow image by assigning at least one of hue, saturation, and lightness depending on a feature of an acoustic shadow that has appeared in the result of the ultrasound scan.