Patent ID: 8496590

Claim:
An ultrasonic diagnostic equipment which separately executes two-dimensional ultrasound scanning and three-dimensional ultrasound scanning in a subject, comprising: a processor which detects a multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) position corresponding to at least one predetermined reference cross-section of a heart of the subject by use of at least one volume data obtained by executing the three-dimensional ultrasound scanning over a three-dimensional region containing at least a portion of the heart of the subject; an image generating unit which generates an MPR image corresponding to the detected MPR position from the at least one volume data; a display which displays the MPR image; and an image acquisition unit which automatically switches an ultrasound scanning region from the three-dimensional region to a two-dimensional region in the subject, the two-dimensional region being determined by the MPR position, and executes the two-dimensional ultrasound scanning over the two-dimensional region to obtain a two-dimensional image regarding the two-dimensional region.