US 12,343,213 B2
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and computer program product
Ryosuke Iwasaki, Otawara (JP); Hiroki Takahashi, Nasushiobara (JP); and Tomohisa Imamura, Otawara (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Apr. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/711,250.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-064287 (JP), filed on Apr. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0313221 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/06 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/5269 (2013.01) [A61B 8/06 (2013.01); G01S 7/52077 (2013.01); G06T 11/008 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured:
to receive an input of first ultrasound data and to output second ultrasound data, the first ultrasound data including both amplitude information and phase information, and the second ultrasound data including amplitude information and not including phase information;
to reconstruct third ultrasound data on a basis of the amplitude information in the second ultrasound data and the phase information in the first ultrasound data, the third ultrasound data including both amplitude information and phase information; and
to perform a process that uses the amplitude information and the phase information in the third ultrasound data.