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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Medison Co., Ltd., Gangwon-Do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD., Hongcheon-Gun, Gangwon-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4887 (2013.01); A61B 5/0095 (2013.01); A61B 5/061 (2013.01); A61B 5/418 (2013.01); A61B 6/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/4405 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/5261 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are an a medical imaging apparatus capable of easily detecting the location of specific tissue, for example, a lymph node, and a method of providing medical images. The medical image providing method includes: arranging and displaying n thumbnail images for n first photoacoustic images acquired by initially scanning an object, wherein n is a natural number; and enhancing a thumbnail image that is identical to a second photoacoustic image acquired by secondarily scanning the object, among the n thumbnail images.