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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2006
Makoto Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinao Tan-naka, Kanagawa, JP;
Hisashi Hagiwara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takao Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinao Tan-naka, Kanagawa, JP;
Hisashi Hagiwara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takao Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims at providing an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of displaying a stable spatial distribution of elastic characteristics for each heart beat without depending on the measurement of blood pressure and the accuracy or stability of such measurement, where an ultrasonic wave transmitted from an ultrasonic probeand reflected by biomedical tissue is input to a computing sectionby way of a receiving sectiona delay time control section, phase detection sectionand filter section. In accordance with the phase detection signal acquired from the phase detection sectionthe computing sectioncomputes a relative elastic characteristic which is an elastic characteristic normalized by an elastic characteristic of an arbitrary reference area in the biomedical tissue. A distribution of relative elastic characteristics computed by the computing section is displayed on a display section