Patent ID: 8974388
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound elasticity imaging apparatus comprising: a displacement measuring section configured to generate displacement frame data based on a received signal detected by an ultrasound probe and outputs the displacement frame data, an elastic data processing section configured to generate and to output elastic frame data based on the displacement frame data output from the displacement measuring section; an evaluation section configured to obtain, as measurement result frame data, the displacement frame data output from the displacement measuring section or the elastic frame data output from the elastic data processing section, to calculate a statistical characteristic amount of a plurality of data included in the measurement result frame data, and to generate and to output decision result frame data indicating a decision result as to whether or not to add hue information or brightness information by comparing the statistical characteristic amount and a threshold value; and a display processing section configured to generate an elastic image based on the elastic frame data output from the elastic data processing section by performing display processing based on the decision result indicated by the decision result frame data output from the evaluation section, wherein the display processing section configured to generate the elastic image by adding, to each data in the elastic frame data corresponding to a decision result indicating that the hue information or the brightness information is to be added, the hue information or the brightness information in accordance with a value of the data wherein the displacement measuring section, the elastic data processing section, the evaluation section and the display processing section are effected by a hardware processor.