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Patent No.:

US 9883807 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2014
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuhiko Fukutani, Kyoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 5/4312 (2013.01);
Abstract

An object information acquiring apparatus includes a probe configured to detect a photoacoustic wave generated from an object irradiated with light, a signal collector configured to generate a first detection signal from the photoacoustic wave, a signal processor configured to generate, from the first detection signal, a second detection signal in which a component having a phase inverted from the phase of a component deriving from the photoacoustic wave is reduced, by using a differential signal of an impulse response of the probe, and an image generator configured to generate image data on the inside of the object using the second detection signal.


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