Ultrasound diagnostic device, ultrasound diagnostic method, and recording medium storing non-transitory computer-readable program

Abstract

An ultrasound diagnostic deviceis equipped with a probe distance determinerand a screen creator. The probe distance determineranalyses a positional relationship between a probe and an area subject to measurement appearing in an ultrasound image, and determines whether or not the analysed positional relationship is appropriate. The screen creatornotifies a user of determination results. An appropriate positional relationship is one in which a pixel region having luminance characteristics of a gelatinous medium is present between an element array of an ultrasound probeand the area subject to measurement appearing in the ultrasound image, and in which the distance between the prove and the area subject to measurement exceeds a predetermined threshold across the entire length of the element array.