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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masafumi Noguchi, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatusincludes: a data acquisition unitthat repeatedly transmits an ultrasound beam to a subject a plurality of times in a range over a plurality of scanning lines to acquire a time-series data string of reflected waves from the subject; an analysis target data selection unitthat estimates the amount of relative positional deviation of a scatterer of the subject which is included in the time-series data string and excludes time-series data satisfying an exclusion condition based on the amount of positional deviation of the scatterer from the time-series data string to select analysis target data; an MTI filter unitthat removes a clutter component from the analysis target data; and a blood flow information estimation unitthat analyzes the analysis target data from which the clutter component has been removed to estimate blood flow information of the subject.