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Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2022
Applicant:

Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;

Inventor:

Gen Nagano, Nasushiobara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/54 (2013.01); A61B 8/4477 (2013.01); G01S 15/8906 (2013.01);
Abstract

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe, a plurality of detectors, a measurer, and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe includes the plurality of transducers, and is configured to transmit an ultrasonic signal to a subject through each of the transducers, and receive, through each of the transducers, a reflected wave signal obtained when the transmitted ultrasonic signal has been reflected from an inside of a body of the subject and returned. Each of the plurality of detectors respectively corresponds to transducers and are configured to detect a reflected wave signal received by the corresponding transducer. The measurer configured to measures a reflected wave signal having an amplitude greater than an amplitude at which at least one of the detectors is saturated when determining a gain of the at least one of the plurality of detectors. The processing circuitry configured to calculate the gain based on the reflected wave signals measured by the measurer and control setting of the gain to the detectors.


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