ULTRASONIC OSTEOMETRY APPARATUS AND OSTEOMETRY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-precision ultrasonograph which is applied to a regular medical checkup and is easy to operate.;SOLUTION: The ultrasonograph has a measuring region fixing part for fixing a measuring region including a bone part, an ultrasonic probe for transmitting ultrasound to make the ultrasound enter the measuring region and receiving the reflected wave, and an ultrasonic probe retaining part which retains the ultrasonic probe to scan a prescribed cross section of the bone part fixed by the measuring region fixing part, and is equipped with a means for acquiring an A-mode waveform data group at each scanning point scanned by the ultrasonic probe and a means for binarizing pixels in a row of pixels set along the direction of the ultrasonic transmission where the A-mode waveform data group is acquired into pixels of trabecula and pixels of bone marrow and creating a binary data group. Image information on a prescribed cross section is displayed based on the binary data group.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI