Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasonic volume data processing device
- Patent Title (中): 超声波体积数据处理装置
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Application No.: US12902269Application Date: 2010-10-12
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Publication No.: US08600129B2Publication Date: 2013-12-03
- Inventor: Koji Seko , Yuko Nagase , Hirohiko Narita , Atsuko Yokoi
- Applicant: Koji Seko , Yuko Nagase , Hirohiko Narita , Atsuko Yokoi
- Applicant Address: JP Mitaka-shi, Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Mitaka-shi, Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2009-238767 20091015; JP2009-238768 20091015
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/34

Abstract:
An ultrasonic volume data processing device which forms a three-dimensional image of a target tissue in a living body is provided. A range in which a rendering process is applied is limited by a three-dimensional region of interest (3D-ROI). The three-dimensional region of interest has a clipping plane as a rendering start surface. A shape of the clipping plane can be deformed into a convex shape or a concave shape by a user operation, and the clipping plane may be freely inclined in two-dimensional directions. With this configuration, for example, the clipping plane can be suitably positioned in a gap between a face of a fetus and a placenta. When the curved clipping plane is used, a striped pattern noise tends to be formed in the three-dimensional image. In order to resolve or reduce the striped pattern noise, a special voxel calculation is applied to a final voxel of each ray in the voxel calculation for each ray.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110091086A1 ULTRASONIC VOLUME DATA PROCESSING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2011-04-21
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