Patent ID: 9354313
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S,G10K

Claim Text:
1. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, comprising: an ultrasound probe including oscillation elements configured to transmit toward and receive from a region of a subject; a receiving delay setting unit configured to divide the oscillation elements into first oscillation element groups, to determine a number of oscillation elements belonging to each of second oscillation element groups in accordance with an imaging condition, to divide each of the first oscillation element groups into the second oscillation element groups in accordance with the determined number of the oscillation elements, and to set a common delay to the oscillation elements included in each of the second oscillation element groups; an adding unit including a first adding unit and a second adding unit, wherein the first adding unit is configured to add received signals of plural channels transmitted from the oscillation elements belonging to each of the first oscillation element groups, wherein the second adding unit is configured to further add received signals of the plural channels added by the first adding unit; and an image generating unit configured to generate image data in accordance with the received signals added by the adding unit.