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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2005
Makoto Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinao Tannaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinao Tannaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving a probe transmitting an ultrasonic wave to a subject; a receiving section for amplifying a reflected echo, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by a tissue and received at the probe, to generate a received signal; an image processing section for generating a tomographic image of the subject based on the signal; a region setting section for setting an arbitrary range of the tomographic image as a region of interest; a motion information gathering section for getting the motion information of the subject at measuring points on the subject based on the signal; a property value calculating section for calculating the property values of target tissues of the subject, specified by the measuring points, by reference to the motion information; and a distribution plotting section, which gets the property measured values and plots a frequency distribution of the property values based on the property values of the target tissues located within the region of interest set by the setting section.