Biological signal monitor device

By detecting the movement of biological tissues for inverse correction and noise processing, the problem of random noise caused by body movement is solved, clear analysis and accurate structural observation of biological tissues in ultrasound diagnosis are achieved, and the effect of medical diagnosis is improved.

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-10-11
KONICA MINOLTA INC
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However, when the target biological tissue moves due to body motion, etc., if a random noise component is removed by a general image noise filter, the biological tissue component that is the target of image analysis is also affected by the noise filter. In many cases, adverse effects such as a decrease in the definition of the outline occur due to the influence of the influence, and the accurate structural analysis of the biological tissue cannot be performed.
[0004] In particular, in the actual medical diagnosis of the carotid artery, since the brightness information of the image data is used when analyzing the target blood vessel wall structure, random noise components and corresponding Since the brightness difference of endometrial tissue is very small, there is a problem that accurate structural analysis of living tissue cannot be performed stably and easily

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no. 1 Embodiment approach

[0058] Below, refer to from Figure 1 to Figure 5 ,as well as Figure 18 The first embodiment of the present invention will be described.

[0059] figure 1 It is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the biological signal monitoring device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

[0060] The echo signal received by the ultrasonic probe 101 is transmitted to the movement amount detecting unit 113 via the receiving unit 110 and the delay combining unit 111 . The movement amount detection unit 113 detects the movement amount of the living tissue due to the pulsation by the phase tracking method. Next, with respect to the image information from the B-mode processing unit 112, only the portion of the movement amount obtained by the movement amount detection unit 113 is canceled (inversely corrected) in the inverse correction processing unit 114 as a correction mechanism, so that although it is a moving image, However, the generated body motion c...

no. 2 Embodiment approach

[0071] Below, refer to Figure 10 , Figure 11 and Figure 13 A second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

[0072] exist Figure 10 In the above, when focusing on the scan line 1006, as shown in the graph of the echo brightness value 1007 of the dynamic image, the boundary position also changes with the movement of the living tissue from the echo brightness value 1007, so the identification of the boundary position There is a high possibility of generating errors, especially in the case of a living body with atheroma (aperoma) 1005 that requires careful medical diagnosis, the echo brightness value may vary due to the composition of the content of the part, etc. Because of unevenness, the brightness values ​​of the ultrasonic echo signals are different, as shown by the unclear outlines 1003a and 1004a of the B-mode image 1000, making it difficult to accurately determine the boundary positions of the blood vessel walls 1001 and 1002.

[0073] Therefore, b...

no. 3 Embodiment approach

[0082] Below, refer to Figure 17 and Figure 12 A third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

[0083] In this embodiment, when the positional relationship between the living body and the ultrasonic probe is the same, and the ideal measurement data such as the living body has stopped breathing to maintain a stable state has been obtained, the movement trajectory of the blood vessel wall per heartbeat is approximated, and the calculation process Section 115 ( figure 1 ) judge the stability (certain) degree of the measurement itself for measuring the IMT value or the inner diameter value of the blood vessel in a software manner.

[0084] Such as Figure 17 As shown, for example, in the trajectory of the movement trajectory 1710 of the previous period synchronized with the cardiac cycle of the ECG waveform 1700, the area range of the arbitrarily set allowable error range 1711 and the trajectory of the next measurement period can be added. For comparison, whe...

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There is provided an excellent biological signal monitor device capable of observing a biological tissue moving according to biological movement or vibration, as if the tissue were stationary. A reverse correction processing unit (114) performs a reverse correction on a B mode image according to the shift amount of the biological tissue detected by a shift amount detection unit (113) and outputs the B mode image corresponding to the biological tissue moving by biological movement as quasi-stationary image information. A calculation processing unit (115) subjects the quasi-stationary image information from the reverse correction processing unit (114) to calculation processes such as averaging and filter processing so as to remove the random noise component. Thus, it is possible to clearly display, for example, a contour of a blood vessel as a biological tissue.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic device for medical use, and particularly relates to the non-invasive and continuous measurement of the movement amount of tissues in the body caused by body movements such as heartbeat, contour extraction, measurement of blood vessel diameter, and pulse of blood vessel wall (carotid artery). A biological signal monitoring device for diagnosing arteriosclerosis and the like by using the measurement results such as intima media thickness (hereinafter referred to as IMT (Intiam Media Thickness) value). Background technique [0002] Conventionally, as a method for non-invasively and continuously measuring the boundary judgment of living tissue or blood vessel wall, measuring the inner diameter of blood vessel, measuring the IMT value, etc. Based on the premise of the structure, the IMT value measured from the luminance signal of the image data is obtained (for example, refer to (Japanese) Japanese P...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61B8/08G01S7/52G01S15/89
CPCG01S15/8979G01S7/5206A61B8/0858A61B5/02007A61B8/58Y10S128/916
OwnerKONICA MINOLTA INC