TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS EDUCATION DEVICE

摘要

[PROBLEMS] To provide a transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis education device, i.e. a transesophageal ultrasonic diagnosis simulation device for diagnosing a heart in which simulation can be carried out in a sense similarly to actual ultrasonic diagnosis. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis education device comprises an anatomical model of the upper half of a human body having a cervix section, a gullet section, a stomach section and a heart section that communicate with each other, an imitation probe of a genuine ultrasonic probe containing a magnet at the tip, a sensor provided at the plate part, for detecting the insertion length and rotational angle of the imitation probe, a magnetic sensor for detecting magnetism of the magnet, a section for storing the three-dimensional image data of echocardiogram, a section for operating the position, inclination and direction of the imitation probe based on the information from each sensor and clipping the tomographic image data from the three-dimensional image data based on the operation, and a section for displaying the clipped tomographic image data as a flat image.