DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PROBE PRESSURIZATION/DEPRESSURIZATION INFORMATION

摘要

The diagnostic ultrasound apparatus (100) according to an embodiment is equipped with: an ultrasound probe (101); a transmitter-receiver for transmitting ultrasonic waves toward a subject via the ultrasound probe and receiving reflected waves from the subject as an echo signal; a velocity distribution information-generating unit (105) for generating tissue velocity distribution information in the subject that relates to pressurization or depressurization by the ultrasound probe (101) on the basis of the echo signal; an index information-generating unit (108) for generating, on the basis of the velocity distribution information, actual information representing the pressurization or depressurization period and target information representing a target pressurization or depressurization period; and a display unit (110) for associating one of the two parameters defining a specified figure with the period and displaying the actual information and target information as figures, and according to changes in the pressurization or depressurization period in the actual information, changing the shape of the figure and displaying same.