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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2015
Samsung Medison Co., Ltd., Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Jin-yong Lee, Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Sung-wook Park, Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Jin-ki Park, Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Joo-Hyun Song, Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Bong-heon Lee, Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Hyuk-Jae Chang, Seoul, KR;
Namsik Chung, Seoul, KR;
Geu-ru Hong, Seoul, KR;
Jong-hwa Kim, Seoul, KR;
Ji-hyun Yoon, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD., Hongcheon-gun, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an ultrasound apparatus. The ultrasound apparatus includes an ultrasound transceiver that transmits an ultrasound signal to an object and receives an ultrasound echo signal reflected from the object, a controller that detects a change amount of a diameter of a blood vessel of the object, based on the ultrasound echo signal, and a display unit that displays a blood pressure graph showing a blood pressure of the object and an image representing an inflection point in the blood pressure graph, based on the detected change amount of the diameter. The controller calculates a stiffness of the blood vessel, based on a blood pressure corresponding to the inflection point.