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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Yoshihiro Takeda, Hachioji, JP;
Daisuke Kaji, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshihiro Takeda, Hachioji, JP;
Daisuke Kaji, Hachioji, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound toward a subject and a received signal obtained by receiving a reflected ultrasound from the subject, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a puncture needle position detection unit which obtains a puncture needle echo information indicating an angle and a position of the puncture needle from the plane-wave received signal, and an ultrasound image is displayed on the basis of the received signal, the transmission unit applies the driving signal to the ultrasound probe so that a plane-wave transmission ultrasound is output from the ultrasound probe, and the receiving unit receives a plane-wave received signal which is obtained in such a way that the plane-wave transmission ultrasound is transmitted from the ultrasound probe, reflected by a puncture needle to be the reflected ultrasound and received by the ultrasound probe.