Patent ID: 8740798
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe; an ultrasonic configured scanner having reception and transmission circuits to repeatedly scan a fetus within a mother's body with an ultrasonic wave via the ultrasonic probe and repeatedly acquire echo signals; an image generation unit configured to generate data of blood flow images based on the echo signals and to arrange the images according to heart beat time phase, a heart beat time phase of each image being estimated based upon changes over time in a form of the heart; and an interpolation processor configured to identify, using the arranged images, at least one pixel in which clutter components occupy the majority of the pixel value, and to interpolate a pixel value of the identified pixel based on pixel values of at least two other blood flow images corresponding to a substantially same cardiac phase and contiguous scanning timings as that of the blood flow image including the identified pixel.