Patent ID: 8279705

Claim:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising: a probe including a plurality of transducers configured to repeatedly transmit transmission beams to a subject, repeatedly receive ultrasonic waves reflected by the subject, and repeatedly generate echo signals corresponding to the received ultrasonic waves; a reception unit configured to generate a plurality of reception beam data set groups based on the generated echo signals, each of the reception beam data set groups including a plurality of reception beam data sets respectively corresponding to a plurality of reception beams associated with parallel signal processing, and each of the reception beam data sets being generated based on echo signals from transducers, of the transducers, which are associated with a corresponding reception position; a control unit configured to set a spatial arrangement of the reception beams and arrange the reception beams at unequal intervals; a synthesizing unit configured to generate a plurality of synthetic beam data sets associated with a plurality of reception positions based on the reception beam data set groups, each of the synthetic beam data sets being obtained by synthesizing reception beam data sets, of the reception beam data sets included in the reception beam data set groups, which are associated with the same reception position; and a generation unit configured to generate ultrasonic image data associated with the subject based on the synthetic beam data sets.