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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1989
Junichi Ishibashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasonic microscope comprises an ultrasonic pulse transmitting/receiving circuit for emitting an ultrasonic to a sample and receiving an echo from it, a scanner for scanning the sample in a direction normal to the direction of emitting the ultrasonic pulse, an extraction circuit for sampling the output signal of the ultrasonic pulse transmitting/receiving circuit at a given duration and at given intervals to extract echo data signals of plural depths in the sample, a first memory for storing B mode image data attained by a single scanning, a second memory for storing, as 3D image data, the B mode image data sequentially read out from the first memory, an image processor for reading out the image data from the second memory for image processing, and a display device for displaying the processed image data as a 2D or 3D image.