Patent ID: 11969295
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An ultrasound diagnostic device, comprising:
a transmitter connected to an ultrasound probe that includes a plurality of transducers aligned in an azimuth direction, the transmitter being configured to cause the plurality of transducers of the ultrasound probe to perform a plurality of set transmissions while changing a position of the transmission line in the azimuth direction of the ultrasound probe, each set transmission of the plurality of set transmissions consisting of a first ultrasound transmission and a second ultrasound transmission with different drive pulse polarities for a respective transmission line;
a receiver configured to acquire, from the ultrasound probe, received signals based on reflected waves for the first ultrasound transmission and the second ultrasound transmission and generate a first acoustic line signal based on a reflected wave related to the first ultrasound transmission and generate a second acoustic line signal based on a reflected wave related to the second ultrasound transmission; and
a hardware processor configured to generate an imaging signal based on the first acoustic line signal and the second acoustic line signal; and
a first memory, a second memory, and a third memory,
wherein during a time interval between the first ultrasound transmission and the second ultrasound transmission in a first set transmission of the plurality of set transmissions, the transmitter is configured to perform the first ultrasound transmission or the second ultrasound transmission in a second set transmission of the plurality of set transmissions that differs from the first set transmission of the plurality of set transmissions and the receiver generates a further acoustic line signal from the first ultrasound transmission or the second ultrasound transmission in the second set transmission of the plurality of set transmissions;
wherein the first acoustic line signal, the second acoustic line signal, and the further acoustic line signal being stored in the first memory, the second memory, and the third memory in accordance with a transmission order,
wherein the transmitter is configured to cause a row of transmit transducers selected from among the plurality of transducer to transmit an ultrasound beam to perform the ultrasound transmission, and
wherein a transmission line related to the first set transmission and a transmission line related to the second set transmission are separated from each other by more than ½ of the length of the row of the transmit transducers in the azimuth direction.