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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
May. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Kenji Oyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhito Oka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 5/4312 (2013.01); A61B 5/708 (2013.01); A61B 5/748 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0475 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01);
Abstract
A photoacoustic apparatus disclosed herein includes a plurality of receiving elements which receive photoacoustic waves caused by irradiation of light from a light source to a subject and outputs reception signals and a signal data acquisition unit which generates and stores reception signal data by reducing a data amount of reception signals output from the plurality of receiving elements when a region where the directional axes of the plurality of receiving elements are gathered at a point is not included in a region of interest.