Ultrasonic blood flow measuring apparatus.

摘要

An ultrasonic blood flow measuring apparatus comprising:
an ultrasonic probe (11) for transmitting an ultrasonic beam into a tissue under examination in response to an electrical driving pulse and for receiving an ultrasonic echo reflected from the tissue to convert the same into an electrical signal;a pulse generator arragement (15-1, 15-2, ... 15-n) for generating the electrical driving pulse of said probe (11);a detector circuit (20) for detecting a tomogram signal from the electrical signal;a Doppler signal processing circuit (24) for extracting Doppler frequency shift components due to velocity of a blood flow in the tissue from the electrical signal;a marker signal generator (34) for generating marker signals indicative of a location where velocity of the blood flow is measured and a direction of the ultrasonic beam which contains the Doppler frequency shift components;an arithmetic circuit (35) for calculating an angle 0 defined between a direction of the blood flow and the direction of the ultrasonic beam which contains the Doppler frequency shift components;a divider circuit (31) for obtaining the velocity of the blood flow in accordance with the Doppler frequency shift components and the angle 8; anda display device (22) for displaying a tomogram of the tissue and markers in response to the tomogram signal and the marker signals, respectively.