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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2007
Hiroshi Kanai, Miyagi, JP;
Hideyuki Hasegawa, Miyagi, JP;
Takenori Fukumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tohoku University, Miyagi, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting sectionthat drives an ultrasonic probe to transmit an ultrasonic wave toward a measuring region of a subject including an arterial vascular wall; a receiving sectionthat receives a reflected wave, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject, at the ultrasonic probe to generate a received signal; a movement information deriving sectionfor deriving information about at least the axial movement of the arterial vascular wall based on the received signal; and a boundary locating sectionfor locating at least one of the blood flow-intima boundary, the media-adventitia boundary and the adventitia-body's connective tissue boundary of the arterial vascular wall in the measuring region based on the movement information.