Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9538990-B2
Application number	US-201313946205-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2013
Priority date	May 19, 2010
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is configured to execute an imaging mode of alternately executing a continuous wave Doppler mode of acquiring time-series Doppler data by performing continuous wave transmission/reception with respect to an object and a B mode of acquiring tomogram data represented by luminance by transmitting and receiving a pulse wave to and from the object, the apparatus includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire continuous wave Doppler data and the tomogram data by alternately executing the continuous wave Doppler mode and the B mode while switching the modes, and a display unit configured to simultaneously display Doppler spectrum information generated based on the continuous wave Doppler data and a tomogram generated based on the tomogram data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which is configured to execute an imaging mode of alternately executing a continuous wave Doppler mode of acquiring time-series continuous wave Doppler data by transmitting and receiving a continuous wave to and from an object and a B mode of acquiring tomogram data that represents luminance by transmitting and receiving a pulse wave to and from the object, the apparatus comprising:
a Doppler processing circuitry configured to
to calculate a transient response component generated due to switching between the continuous wave Doppler mode and the B mode;
to subtract the calculated transient response component from the continuous wave Doppler data to generate a remainder of the continuous wave Doppler data;
to generate Doppler spectrum information by using the remainder of the continuous wave Doppler data; and
a display configured to display the Doppler spectrum information in a predetermined format.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry identifies information for a system by a parametric model using a biological signal of the object as an external input, and estimates lost Doppler data due to switching between the continuous wave Doppler mode and the B mode according to the information for the system, and
interpolates the continuous wave Doppler data by using the lost Doppler data.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry estimates the lost Doppler data by multiplying a first spectrum component corresponding to temporal past of the lost Doppler data and a second spectrum component corresponding to temporal future of the lost Doppler data to generate products by a temporally changing weighting function and adding the products.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the temporally changing weighting function is a cosine function.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry calculates a transient response component originating from a preceding stage portion of a wall filter of the Doppler processing circuitry.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry calculates a transient response component generated in a wall filter and frequency analysis circuitry of the Doppler processing circuitry.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry calculates the transient response component from a spectrum having a power dimension by executing positive-negative symmetric post filter processing, and
the Doppler processing circuitry subtracts the transmission component after the post filter processing from the continuous wave Doppler data having a power dimension.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry calculates the transient response component as a time axis waveform by changing a magnitude of the transient response component according to a preset step response waveform table, and
the Doppler processing circuitry subtracts the transient response component as the time axis waveform from the continuous wave Doppler data of the time axis waveform.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler processing circuitry calculates the transient response component by using an output from an A/D converter of the Doppler processing circuitry.

Assignees

• Toshiba Medical Sys Corp

Inventors

• Baba Tatsuro
• Yao Cong
• Tanaka Go
• Uchiumi Isao

Classifications

• A61B8/463

  characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display · CPC title

• G01S7/52034

  Data rate converters · CPC title

• G01S15/8979

  Combined Doppler and pulse-echo imaging systems · CPC title

• G01S7/52074

  Composite displays, e.g. split-screen displays; Combination of multiple images or of images and alphanumeric tabular information · CPC title

• A61B8/5246 Primary

  combining images from the same or different imaging techniques, e.g. color Doppler and B-mode · CPC title