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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2005
Tetsuo Watanabe, Mitaka, JP;
Akifumi Ohtake, Mitaka, JP;
Takaya Uno, Mitaka, JP;
Aloka Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprises a cine-memory for temporarily storing a frame line obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasound. In a stress echo test, the storage region of the cine-memory is divided into the same number of segments as the number of capturing processes (i.e. the number of scenes). Each segment is used as a ring-buffer, and one or a plurality of frame blocks (one or a plurality of moving images) are stored in the corresponding segment in each capturing process. Prior to execution of a plurality of capturing processes, the number of heart beats indicative of the data amount which can be stored in each segment is obtained and the information is then provided to a user.