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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1985
Mashio Kodama, Tokyo, JP;
Toshio Kondo, Kunitachi, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises a probe for transmitting an ultrasonic beam toward a body having a blood vessel therein and a plurality of receiver circuits corresponding to sampling points of the body in a direction approximately perpendicular to the beam to produce respective intensities of reflected waves from the sampling points. A distribution of the reflected-wave intensities from the receiver circuits is measured at a predetermined interval of time. A shift between two successive intensity distributions thus measured is detected by a correlator, thereby determining a blood flow speed, in the blood vessel of the body, in the direction approximately perpendicular to the beam.