Patent ID: 8246544

Claim:
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus, comprising: a first storage unit configured to store digital reception beam data converted from a reception beam formed from an ultrasonic received signal; a first control configured to control reading and writing of data from/in the first storage unit; a filter coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a filter coefficient based on information on the reception beam, the information including a positional relationship between the reception beam and a transmission beam; a first spatial filter operation unit configured to subject each of a plurality of the reception beam data, including reception beam data converted from parallel reception beams received in parallel from a single transmission beam, to filtering for reducing a difference in image quality between adjacent beams based on the filter coefficient, thereby outputting image data; and a scanning conversion unit configured to perform a scan conversion on the image data output from the first spatial filter operation unit so as to display an image on the display monitor, wherein the first spatial filter operation unit also is configured to filter the reception beam data converted from the reception beams including one target reception beam and the adjacent plural reception beams, thereby generating the image data at a specified sampling point on the target reception beam, and the filter coefficient calculation unit also is configured to apply the filter coefficient to the reception beam datum converted from the parallel reception beam received in parallel with the target reception beam so as to be smaller than the filter coefficient applied to the reception beam data which is converted from the reception beam other than the parallel reception beam and is symmetrical in positional relationship to the reception beam data with respect to a center at a position of the target reception beam.