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Image processing apparatus and image processing method for use in the image processing apparatus

  • US 5,706,816 A
  • Filed: 07/16/1996
  • Issued: 01/13/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An ultrasound image processing apparatus, comprising:

  • an ultrasound transducer for sequentially emitting ultrasound beams and receiving respective echoes of said ultrasound beams within a scanning plane;

    means for displacing said ultrasound transducer to move said scanning plane in a three-dimensional region;

    a three-dimensional image data generating means for sequentially obtaining echo data of the respective ultrasound beams from the echo of the respective ultrasound beams upon receipt of the echo by said 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 pixel in an ultrasound image for said three-dimensional region;

    memory means, having addresses corresponding to respective pixels in said ultrasound image, for sequentially storing the brightness value data for the respective ultrasound beams generated by said three-dimensional image data generating means at the corresponding addresses thereof; and

    display means for displaying the ultrasound image of said three-dimensional region, based on said brightness value data stored in said memory means.

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