Patent ID: 10702246

Abstract:
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that transmits an ultrasound beam using an ultrasound probe including transducers and generates acoustic line signal subframe data, includes: a transmitter that causes transmission transducer arrays to transmit the ultrasound beam; a receiver that generates a reception signal sequence; and a delay-and-sum part that performs delay-and-sum operation, wherein the receiver includes part receivers, the delay-and-sum part includes: part delay-and-sum parts that perform delay-and-sum to generate an acoustic line signal so as to generate acoustic line signal partial subframe data; part folding parts that extract an acoustic line signal sequence and arrange the acoustic line signals to generate acoustic line signal partial subframe folded data; a main summing part that sums the acoustic line signal partial subframe folded data to generate acoustic line signal subframe folded data; and a re-sequence part that re-sequences the acoustic line signals to generate the acoustic line signal subframe data.