Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

Abstract

There is provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: an ultrasound probe including a transducer array; and an apparatus main body wirelessly connected to the ultrasound probe and including a monitor, in which the ultrasound probe includes: a B-mode processing unit and an M-mode processing unit configured to generate a B-mode image and an M-mode image, respectively, based on reception signals acquired by performing ultrasound scanning using the transducer array; a wireless communication circuit configured to wirelessly transmit the B-mode image and the M-mode image to the apparatus main body; and a probe control unit configured to control the wireless communication circuit such that, each time generation of a certain number of lines of B-mode images, which is less than the number of scanning lines in a single frame of the B-mode image, is completed, wireless transmission of the certain number of lines of B-mode images generated by the B-mode processing unit and wireless transmission of the M-mode image generated by the M-mode processing unit are alternately performed, and the B-mode image and the M-mode image wirelessly transmitted from the ultrasound probe to the apparatus main body are displayed on the monitor.

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