Patent ID: 8216147
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An ultrasonographic equipment comprising: an ultrasonic transducer unit in which ultrasonic transducer elements for scanning an ultrasonic beam are arranged in a state of an array; a transducer unit oscillating motor for making the ultrasonic transducer unit perform oscillation scanning in the direction crossing the scanning direction of the ultrasonic beam; an oscillation angle detector configured to detect an oscillation angle of the ultrasonic transducer unit and generating oscillation angle information; an ultrasonic transmitter configured to excite the ultrasonic transducer elements to form the ultrasonic beam; an ultrasonic receiver configured to form the ultrasonic beam from an ultrasonic echo received by the ultrasonic transducer elements and converting the ultrasonic beam to an image data array; a three-dimensional image processor configured to receive data streams comprising intermittent image data arrays with corresponding oscillation angle information inserted at blanking times between the image data arrays, the three-dimensional image processor further configured to form a three-dimensional image based on the data streams; and an image display configured to display the three-dimensional image.