Patent ID: 7044913

Claim:
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprising: means for scanning a subject to be examined while transmitting and receiving an ultrasound pulse to and from the subject, whereby reception signals are obtained at each pixel of a scanned portion of the subject from the received ultrasound pulse; means for obtaining, every pixel, in sequence a plurality of velocities of a moving element that is in motion within the subject on the basis of the reception signals obtained during a predetermined period of time corresponding to one heartbeat of the subject, the velocities being updated in real time; means for computing a reference velocity based on the plurality of velocities obtained by the means for obtaining during the predetermined period of time and for correcting velocity information based on the velocities of the moving element using the reference velocity, the velocity information indicating a characteristic of the heartbeat of the subject; and means for displaying the corrected velocity data as an image so that the corrected velocity information is updated in display a plurality of times during the predetermined period of time.