Patent ID: 9220477
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: A61B,G01S

Abstract:
1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising a controller, a monitor, and a probe, wherein a first direction and a second direction are defined relative to the probe, the second direction intersecting the first direction at right angles, the probe having a plurality of arrays of transducers, in which the transducers are arranged in the first direction, or having a swinging section with an array with a number of transducers arranged in the first direction, the array swinging in the second direction that intersects with the first direction at right angles, wherein the controller transmits an ultrasonic beam from the array or the plurality of arrays of the probe to a subject, generates a number of tomographic images using image data based on an echo signal received from the subject, detects a section of a blood vessel wall in which a thickness measurement is possible in each of the tomographic images, and if a sum of lengths of the detected sections of the blood vessel wall in the each of the tomographic images is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, calculates the thickness of the blood vessel wall by combining the number of tomographic images, wherein the controller has a detection mode in which the blood vessel wall is detected, and in the detection mode, the controller calculates the thickness of the blood vessel wall, and wherein the monitor displays an image based on the image data that has been generated by the controller.