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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1984
Takaki Shimura, Machida, JP;
Keiichi Murakami, Kawasaki, JP;
Yutaka Igarashi, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Shiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Hajime Hayashi, Yamato, JP;
Hirohide Miwa, Kawasaki, JP;
Michitoshi Inoue, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Matsumoto, Ashiya, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A diagnosis apparatus for discriminating a property of the tissue to be observed from the reflected ultrasonic wave uses the nature of the fine structure of the tissue, and more practically uses the interval of small reflecting bodies dispersely distributed in the tissue as the parameters. The intervals flucatuate. Therefore, an average value and/or a degree of fluctuation is calculated and is displayed. For obtaining the average interval, a method of using the cepstrum of the received signal or a method of using the self-correlation of the received signal can be used.