Patent ID: 9149249
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound image diagnosis apparatus for measuring diagnosis parameters based on image data acquired through ultrasound transmissions and receptions along prescribed directions with respect to an object, the ultrasound image diagnosis apparatus comprising: an ultrasound probe including a plurality of transducers configured to transmit and receive ultrasound pulses and ultrasound echo waves to and from the object; a transmission/reception unit configured to supply driving signals to the plurality of transducers for transmitting the ultrasound pulses along the prescribed directions and to perform phase compensation/summation on a plurality of reception signals acquired from the plurality of transducers; an ultrasound data generating unit implemented by processing circuitry and configured to generate both ultrasound data in a reference mode and ultrasound data in a measurement mode by processing the phase compensated/summed receiving signals; a reference image data generating unit configured to generate reference image data based on ultrasound data in the reference mode acquired through ultrasound transmission/reception along the prescribed directions with respect to the object; a panoramic image data generating unit configured to generate panoramic image data by combining a plurality of reference image data successively generated from the reference image data generating unit; a diagnosis parameters measuring unit implemented by the circuitry configured to measure diagnosis parameters based on ultrasound data in the measurement mode acquired through ultrasound transmission/reception at a plurality of measurement positions designated in the panoramic image data; a non-transitory memory configured to store measured results of the diagnosis parameters incidental with position data of the plurality of measurement positions; a display data generating unit implemented by the circuity configured to generate display data by overlapping measurement markers on the panoramic image data based on the position data and the measured results stored in the memory at positions corresponding to the measurement markers; and a display unit configured to display the panoramic image data correlated with at least one of a measured image data and the measured results of the diagnosis parameters in a corresponding manner.