Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and signal processing method in ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

Abstract

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the invention includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits an ultrasonic beam to a subject and receives reflected echo signals from the subject; a beam forming section that supplies a driving signal causing the ultrasonic probe to transmit the ultrasonic beam; a data conversion section that converts echo data obtained by digitalizing the reflected echo signals into ultrasonic image data; and a display that displays ultrasonic images based on the converted ultrasonic image data, wherein the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a process configuration text which is capable of rewriting a plurality of signal processes executed by the data conversion section and the execution order of the plurality of signal processes in a general language, and wherein the data conversion section includes a controller that executes the plurality of signal processes on the echo data based on the description of the process configuration text to thereby convert the echo data into the ultrasonic image data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.