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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2012
Daisuke Kaji, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshihiro Takeda, Hachioji, JP;
Kazuya Osada, Hachioji, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound waves toward a subject by a driving signal and which outputs received signals by receiving reflection ultrasound waves from the subject and a transmitting unit which generates the transmission ultrasound waves by the ultrasound probe by outputting the driving signal, and the transmitting unit generates the driving signal of square wave having a waveform in which a standard pulse signal where a pulse cycle is 2 T is combined with two first pulse signals of same polarity having a pulse width A (A<T) and a second pulse signal having a pulse width B (B=T−2A), the second pulse signal having a polarity different from the polarity of the first pulse signals.