| 摘要 |
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of detecting a boundary between structures within the object with high accuracy and performing imaging processing based thereon. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmission and reception unit for converting reception signals outputted from ultrasonic transducers into digital signals; a phase matching unit for performing reception focus processing on the digital signals to generate sound ray signals; a signal processing unit for performing envelope detection processing on the sound ray signals to generate envelope signals; an image data generating unit for generating image data based on the envelope signals; a direction determining unit for determining a direction of a boundary between structures within the object based on the sound ray signals; and an image processing unit for performing image processing on the envelope signals or the image data according to a determination result obtained by the direction determining unit.
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