ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE PROGRAM

摘要

An ultrasound diagnostic device 101 is equipped with a probe distance determiner 7 and a screen creator 8. The probe distance determiner 7 analyses 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 creator 8 notifies 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 probe 102 and 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.

主权项

1. An ultrasound diagnostic device, comprising:
a transceiver circuit causing an ultrasound probe to transmit and receive an ultrasound; an image generation circuit generating an ultrasound image according to the ultrasound received by the ultrasound probe; and a control circuit, wherein the ultrasound image is a cross-section that includes a measurement target, and the control circuit executes:
a region determination of determining one of a presence and a thickness of a pixel region having a luminance distribution specific to gelatinous material, within a portion of the ultrasound image opposite an element array of the ultrasound probe; anda positional relationship notification of making a notification to a user regarding whether or not there is an appropriate positional relationship between the measurement target and the ultrasound probe, according to the one of the presence and the thickness of the pixel region.