Patent ID: 7883467

Claim:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe which transmits an ultrasonic wave to a predetermined part of a subject and receives an echo signal from the predetermined part; a driving signal generation unit which generates a driving signal to drive the ultrasonic probe and supplies the driving signal to the ultrasonic probe; an image data generation unit which generates ultrasonic image data of a plurality of frames on the basis of the echo signal received by the ultrasonic probe; a control unit which registers at least one of an image adjustment operation, a predetermined measurement operation and an annotation operation as a specified event according to selection by a user; a recording unit which records the ultrasonic image data of each frame; and a signal generation unit which generates an event signal in response to an operation corresponding to the specified event, the control unit controlling at least one of a start and an end of recording of the ultrasonic image data by the recording unit in response to the event signal.