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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1994
Yuichi Miwa, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kageyoshi Katakura, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Ban, Kodaira, JP;
Hiroshi Masuzawa, Hachioji, JP;
Hiroshi Kanda, Tokorozawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnosis system including a plurality of elements arrayed for transmitting ultrasonic wave to a testing object and for receiving ultrasonic wave reflected from the testing object, a device for giving a delay time distribution to respective transmitting and receiving signals of the elements to thereby form an ultrasonic beam having directivity in a predetermined direction, a device for displaying a sectional image of the testing object, and a sound velocity distribution control device for changing sound velocities in the testing object to be set up in respective elements in accordance with a focal point position of the ultrasonic beam and the respective positions of the elements in order to determine the delay time distribution, wherein the system further includes a sound velocity distribution control device for changing sound velocities to be set up in the respective elements on the basis of functions forming a system of orthogonal functions in which array number successively given to respective array positions of the elements in a transmitting and receiving aperture composed of a predetermined number of the elements is regarded as a variable, and on the basis of expanding coefficients by which respective functions forming the system of orthogonal functions are multiplied respectively.