Patent ID: 9107634
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe which transmits an ultrasonic wave to an object to be examined and receives a reflected echo signal from the object; and an ultrasonic diagnostic system comprising circuitry, memory, a display and an input device to perform operations to: transmit ultrasonic waves into the object via the ultrasonic probe; produce a section image of the object based on the reflected echo signal via the ultrasonic probe; process the reflected echo signal to produce a two-dimensional elasticity image of an elasticity value representing elasticity; produce volume data formed of a plurality of the two-dimensional elasticity images; select and render elasticity value data of the volume data included in a desired elasticity value range to produce a three-dimensional elasticity image of the elasticity value data in the elasticity value range; display the three-dimensional elasticity image and at least one of the two-dimensional elasticity image and the section image showing an area corresponding to the elasticity value range; set the elasticity value range by the input device; and display the area corresponding to the elasticity value range on at least one of the two-dimensional elasticity image and the section image only for a predetermined time period based on the set the elasticity value range by the input device.