| 摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flexible ultrasonic array probe capable of achieving a highly accurate beam formation with a small number of signal lines and having flexibility in bending or shape deformation. <P>SOLUTION: This ultrasonic imaging apparatus has: a probe including a plurality of elements for transmitting/receiving ultrasonic signals with a subject, and a connection section for relatively movably connecting the plurality of elements; a computing section computing relative positional information of the plurality of elements based on the receiving signals of the plurality of elements; and an image data generation section generating image data from the receiving signal and the relative positional information. This ultrasonic imaging apparatus optimizes a delay time between the receiving signals for minimizing the width of a receiving point response function so as to estimate the shape of a probe itself, transmit/receive based on the estimated shape and take a tomographic image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT</p> |
