Patent ID: 11957518
Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 18:
19. A control method of an ultrasound system in which an ultrasound probe and an information terminal are wirelessly connected, the control method comprising:
a step of causing a transducer array to transmit an ultrasonic wave, and performing reception focusing processing on a reception signal output from the transducer array that has received an ultrasound echo to generate a sound ray signal, by a probe-side processor of the ultrasound probe;
a step of generating image information data on the basis of the generated sound ray signal, by the probe-side processor of the ultrasound probe;
a step of storing the generated image information data, by a probe-side cine-memory of the ultrasound probe;
a step of wirelessly transmitting the generated image information data, by a probe-side wireless communication circuit of the ultrasound probe;
a step of receiving the wirelessly transmitted image information data, by a terminal-side wireless communication circuit of the information terminal; and
a step of displaying an ultrasound image on a monitor on the basis of the received image information data, by a terminal-side processor of the information terminal,
wherein in a case where a freeze mode is designated on the basis of an instruction input from an input device and transmission of the ultrasonic wave from the transducer array is stopped, the image information data of past frames stored in the probe-side cine-memory is wirelessly transmitted from the probe-side wireless communication circuit, and the terminal-side processor displays the ultrasound image on the monitor on the basis of the image information data of the past frames wirelessly transmitted from the probe-side wireless communication circuit after transmission of the ultrasonic wave from the transducer array is stopped and received by the terminal-side wireless communication circuit.