ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve plaque quantitative evaluation at an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.SOLUTION: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus 1 includes: an ultrasonic transmission unit 21 for transmitting ultrasound from an ultrasonic probe 3; an ultrasonic reception unit 22 for making the ultrasonic probe 3 receive a reflection wave of the transmitted ultrasound and obtaining a reception signal corresponding to the reflection wave from the ultrasonic probe 3; image generation means 24 for generating an ultrasonic image based on the reception signal; and a plaque evaluation unit 25 for determining presence/absence of a lipid core with reference to a measurement sound velocity value in a plaque area, which has been selected as an area containing plaque, on the ultrasonic image.