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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2016
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuhiro Yamanaka, Tokyo, JP;

Kenichi Kawabata, Tokyo, JP;

Takahide Terada, Tokyo, JP;

Yushi Tsubota, Tokyo, JP;

Wenjing Wu, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/15 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5246 (2013.01); A61B 8/08 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/145 (2013.01); A61B 8/15 (2013.01); A61B 8/4416 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01);
Abstract

Information relevant to a state of a tissue in a subject (state information) is provided with technology reducing the amount of memory and computation necessary at the time of extracting the information. An ultrasonic wave is transmitted towards a subject, a transmission wave transmitted through the subject or a reflection wave reflected on the subject is received. A reception signal is generated on the basis of the transmission wave or the reflection wave. A tissue region candidate, of a region indicating a tissue of the subject, is set on the basis of the reception signal. State information, which is information relevant to a state of the tissue in the tissue region candidate, is calculated on the basis of the reception signal and the tissue region candidate. An ultrasonic image reflecting the state information is generated on the basis of the state information and displayed.


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