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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2023
Fujifilm Healthcare Corporation, Chiba, JP;
Chizue Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A target region specifying unit specifies a target region corresponding to an object in a subject in a data space of an RF signal, by analyzing ultrasound data, which is at least one of the RF signal transmitted from a transmission/reception unit, a coordinate transformation signal transmitted from an image formation unit, or an ultrasound image (B-mode image) transmitted from the image formation unit. A signal processing unit executes normal signal processing, which is signal processing according to a depth of the subject, with respect to the RF signal outside the target region (that is, RF signal in a non-target region) and executes specific signal processing different from the normal signal processing with respect to the RF signal inside the target region. The image formation unit forms the ultrasound image based on the RF signal subjected to the signal processing by the signal processing unit.