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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2008
Hiroyuki Shikata, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Hideki Kosaku, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Takashi Takeuchi, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Hiroyuki Shikata, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Hideki Kosaku, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Takashi Takeuchi, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-sho, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnosis system including a motor driving multi-plane ultrasound probe for acquiring image data at a voluntary scanning plane in a body of a patient is provided. The data acquisition is performed by driving rotation of a plurality of transducers arranged in a head portion of the probe toward a target angle of a prescribed rotation range by driving an arranged surface of the plurality transducers so as to make a plurality of scanning planes toward a first direction in a normal mode. The driving direction of the head portion is automatically reversed by 180 degrees to a second direction opposite to the first direction at a high speed in a reverse mode when the rotation angle of the head portion arrives at the target angle. The reversed head portion can continue to acquire image data at the same scanning planes to the previous scanning planes of the rotation drive to the first direction.