Patent ID: 6635018
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: A61B,G01S

Abstract:
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus, comprising:a transmission condition controller configured to set a transmission condition to be given to an ultrasonic beam radiated to scan a region of a subject to be diagnosed, the transmission condition including at least one transmission condition other than a transmission frequency of the ultrasonic beam and being controlled in amount according to a scanning direction of the ultrasonic beam during a scanning operation thereof for one frame of an ultrasonic image of the subject so that non-uniformity of a transmission sound field in the region is corrected; an ultrasonic transmitter configured to transmit the ultrasonic beam to the subject under the at least one transmission condition set by the transmission condition controller; and an image generator configured to obtain the ultrasonic image of the subject from an ultrasonic echo signal reflected from the subject in response to transmitting the ultrasonic beam to the subject.