Patent ID: 8740797

Claim:
An ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe provided with therapeutic use transducers and diagnostic use transducers having a common ultrasonic beam irradiation surface; a monitor that displays a diagnostic use tomographic image containing a diseased portion of a subject that is produced by processing reflection echoes received by the diagnostic use transducers; and an input unit through which a position of therapy in the diseased portion of the subject is input on the diagnostic use tomographic image containing a diseased portion of the subject displayed on the monitor as well as input an intensity of the therapeutic use ultrasonic beam to be irradiated at the position of therapy; characterized by further comprising: a color display bar and beam pattern memory configured to store both beam pattern data including ultrasonic beam intensity distribution patterns at respective points in a region covered by the diagnostic use tomographic image according to parameters including irradiation angle of therapeutic use ultrasonic beam seen from a setting position of the ultrasonic probe on a body surface of the subject and a focus depth thereof that are determined in advance, and therapeutic use ultrasonic beam intensity data sectioned in plural levels by a predetermined ultrasonic beam intensity unit and color data allotted to the respective leveled sections for a therapeutic use reference ultrasonic beam intensity color display bar to be displayed on the monitor in parallel with the diagnostic use tomographic image; and a beam pattern setting and display control unit configured to call a beam pattern including an ultrasonic beam intensity distribution pattern of a concerned point in the region covered by the diagnostic use tomographic image from the color display bar and beam pattern memory based on the position of therapy in the diseased portion of the subject and the intensity of the therapeutic use ultrasonic beam to be irradiated at the position of therapy that are input through the input unit, apply respective colors corresponding to the leveled ultrasonic beam intensity sections on the therapeutic use reference ultrasonic beam intensity color display bar displayed on the monitor to the ultrasonic beam intensity distribution pattern of the called beam pattern with reference to the input therapeutic use ultrasonic beam intensity to be irradiated at the diseased portion of the subject, and cause display of the color-coded ultrasonic beam intensity distribution pattern of the called beam pattern along the irradiation path of the therapeutic use ultrasonic beam and over the diagnostic use tomographic image displayed on the monitor in a superposed manner.