- Patent Title: Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and operation method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus by determining depolarization to necessitate supply of polarization voltage to ultrasound transducers
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Application No.: US16419595Application Date: 2019-05-22
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Publication No.: US11607201B2Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Satoh , Katsuya Yamamoto
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2018-124632 20180629
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; A61B8/08 ; A61B8/12 ; B06B1/06 ; B06B1/02

Abstract:
An ultrasound transducer unit including a plurality of ultrasound transducers transmits and receives ultrasound waves to and from an inside of a subject. In a case where a checking operation unit is operated, a controller controls a driving voltage supply unit such that a driving voltage is supplied with all of the plurality of ultrasound transducers as driving target transducers. In a case where the checking operation unit is operated, a depolarization determination unit calculates, for each ultrasound transducer, a reception sensitivity in a case where an ultrasound wave is received by driving all of the plurality of ultrasound transducers as the driving target transducers, and determines whether or not a depolarization determination value calculated from the reception sensitivity of each ultrasound transducer satisfies numerical conditions. If the numerical conditions are satisfied, a polarization voltage supply unit supplies a polarization voltage to each of the plurality of ultrasound transducers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200000439A1 ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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