Patent Document ID: 20090216123
Application ID: 11913852
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe; ultrasonic tomographic data measuring means for applying pressure on tissues of an object to be examined and measuring ultrasonic tomographic data of the tissues thereof; tomographic image generating means for generating a tomographic image from the ultrasonic tomographic data; and elastic image generating means for obtaining physical quantity correlated with the strain of the tissues in a plurality of measurement points based on the ultrasonic tomographic data, and generating an elastic image of the tissues based on the obtained physical quantity, characterized in further comprising: means for selecting a reference region in the tomographic image or the elastic image; and means for indexing the physical quantity of the respective measurement points on the basis of the physical quantity of the reference region, and generating an index elastic image representing distribution of the index values.