Sung Chan PARK,Joo Young KANG,Kyu Hong KIM,Jung Ho KIM,Su Hyun PARK
申请号:
US14515629
公开号:
US20150105658A1
申请日:
2014.10.16
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要:
Disclosed herein are an ultrasonic imaging apparatus for enhancing target therapy, and a control method thereof. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: an inputter configured to receive a command for setting, in a first ultrasound image, a target area of an object to which target therapy is to be applied, the first ultrasound image showing a lesion to which ultrasound contrast agents including therapeutic agents have been bound within the object; and an image processor configured to compare the first ultrasound image to a second ultrasound image acquired after ultrasonic waves have been irradiated to a target part corresponding to the target area, and to detect at least one of an area into which the therapeutic agents have been delivered and an amount of the therapeutic agents delivered into the area.