| 摘要 |
<p>An image processing apparatus includes an ultrasound transducer for sequentially emitting ultrasound beams and receiving respective echoes of the ultrasound beams to produce a scanning plane; a mechanism for displacing the ultrasound transducer to move the scanning plane in a three-dimensional region; a three-dimensional image data generator for sequentially obtaining echo data of the respective ultrasound beams from the echo of the respective ultrasound beams upon receipt of the echo by the ultrasound transducer, and for sequentially generating, based on the echo data of the respective ultrasound beams, brightness value data for each ultrasound beam corresponding to a brightness value for one Ä1Ü pixel in an ultrasound image for the three-dimensional region; a memory, having addresses corresponding to respective pixels in the ultrasound image, for sequentially storing the brightness value data for the respective ultrasound beams generated by the three-dimensional image data generator at the corresponding addresses thereof; and a display for displaying the ultrasound image based on the brightness value data stored in the memory. This apparatus can produce a new three-dimensional ultrasound image having properties of both a stereographic surface image and a stereographic transparent image like an X-ray in a real time. <IMAGE></p> |
