Patent ID: 6454713
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: A61B,A61N,G01S

Abstract:
An ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus having a therapy mode and a simulation mode for simulating a therapy before the therapy mode, comprising:a therapeutic ultrasonic wave generating source configured to generate a therapeutic ultrasonic wave converged at a focal point; an ultasonic probe configured to transmit an imaging ultrasonic wave toward a subject and to receive an echo of the therapeutic ultrasonic wave and the imaging ultrasonic wave; a unit configured to generate a tomographic image from the echo of the imaging ultrasonic wave; a processor configured to determine an irradiation condition of the therapeutic ultrasonic wave from the echo of the imaging ultrasonic wave in a simulation mode to simulate how to carry out the therapy mode, the irradiation condition including an irradiation intensity and a therapeutic region, and to set an irradiation intensity of the therapeutic ultrasonic wave in the therapy mode from the determined irradiation condition in the simulation mode; and a display unit configured to display the irradiation intensity with a numerical value and display the therapeutic region on the tomographic image.