US 12,484,875 B2
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
Go Tanaka, Otawara (JP); Kazuya Akaki, Utsunomiya (JP); Eiji Goto, Utsunomiya (JP); Koichiro Kurita, Nasushiobara (JP); and Yu Igarashi, Utsunomiya (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/162,840.
Application 16/162,840 is a division of application No. 14/966,429, filed on Dec. 11, 2015, abandoned.
Application 14/966,429 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2014/065799, filed on Jun. 13, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 2013-124987 (JP), filed on Jun. 13, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2019/0046153 A1, Feb. 14, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 8/06 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/06 (2013.01) [A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/42 (2013.01); A61B 8/4444 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/54 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/4254 (2013.01); A61B 8/523 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, comprising:
an ultrasonic probe configured to perform ultrasonic scanning of a subject and receive reflected waves from the subject; and
an image processor configured to
acquire volume data of the subject photographed by a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus other than the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus;
generate blood flow information and cross-section image data, in accordance with the reflected waves;
acquire a correspondence relation between coordinates of the volume data and coordinates of the cross-section image data;
extract a blood vessel region from the volume data; and
cause a preferred position marker indicating a preferred collection range on the scan cross-section for collecting the blood flow information and the cross-section image data to be superimposed, in accordance with a direction of the blood vessel region and the correspondence relation.