Reference image display method for ultrasonography and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus

An ultrasonic image is captured by an ultrasonic probe . A reference image is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to the scan plane of the ultrasonic image from volume image data that is pre-obtained by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and that is stored in a volume-data storing u...

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Main Authors Arai, Osamu, Iwasaki, Takao, Mitake, Tsuyoshi, Oshio, Koichi, Okuma, Kiyoshi, Shinmoto, Hiroshi
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.07.2012
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Summary:An ultrasonic image is captured by an ultrasonic probe . A reference image is obtained by extracting a tomographic image corresponding to the scan plane of the ultrasonic image from volume image data that is pre-obtained by a diagnostic imaging apparatus and that is stored in a volume-data storing unit . The ultrasonic image and the reference image are displayed on the same screen . In this case, of the reference image, a portion corresponding to the view area of the ultrasonic image is extracted and the resulting reference image having the same region as the ultrasonic image is displayed as a fan-shaped image.