KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA;TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
发明人:
Yoko OKAMURA,Naohisa KAMIYAMA
申请号:
US15008599
公开号:
US20160135781A1
申请日:
2016.01.28
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要:
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a scan controlling unit that exercises control to perform a first scanning process by transmitting an ultrasound wave in a first direction and a second scanning process by transmitting an ultrasound wave in each of a plurality of directions; an image generating unit that generates a first ultrasound image and second ultrasound images from the first and the second scanning processes, respectively; an image generation controlling unit that has a needle image generated, based on an analysis result on the brightness distribution of each member of a group of images based on the first ultrasound image and the second ultrasound images or an analysis result on the brightness distribution of each of the second ultrasound images; an image synthesizing unit that generates a synthesized image from the first ultrasound image and the needle image; and a display controlling unit that displays the synthesized image.