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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2020
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Yamamoto, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;
Tomoki Inoue, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus including: an ultrasound probe having a transducer array; and a processor configured to: perform transmission and reception of an ultrasonic beam from the transducer array toward a subject, into which contrast media including microbubbles is introduced; image a reception signal output from the transducer array to generate an ultrasound image of the subject; acquire trajectories of the microbubbles in a one cross section of the subject by tracking movement of the microbubbles based on the ultrasound image corresponding to the one cross section of the subject; detect, as a feature point, a trajectory, in which a distance between a start point and an end point in a prescribed time range is less than a prescribed value, among the trajectories of the microbubbles; and display the ultrasound image, the acquired trajectories and the detected feature point on the display unit.