TRAINING APPARATUS FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS

摘要

It is intended to provide a training apparatus for echocardiographic diagnosis which is a simulation apparatus for ultrasonic diagnosis targeting at the heart and by which simulation can be conducted in the same sense as in practical ultrasonic diagnosis. A training apparatus for echocardiographic diagnosis comprises: a human phantom having a position sensor embedded in a definite position of the body surface in the breast; a pseudo-probe having a magnet enclosed therein and an inclination detecting sensor at the tip thereof; a memory section for memorizing an echocardiographic three-dimensional image; a computing section whereby the position of the pseudo-probe, inclination and suppress strength are computed based on the information from the individual sensors as described above and two-dimensional image data is taken out from the three-dimensional image data based on the results of the computation; and an indication section for indicating the two-dimensional image data thus taken out.