Ultrasonic diagnostic device
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
InventorYasuo Miyajima
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Abstract
An ultrasonic diagnostic device is characterized by being provided with a cooling mechanism for cooling an ultrasonic vibrator by circulating a refrigerant in a cable of an ultrasonic probe in which the ultrasonic vibrator is provided, a cooling abnormality detecting means for detecting the abnormal state of the cooling mechanism, and an operating means for, when the abnormal state of the cooling mechanism is detected by the cooling abnormality detecting means, performing a degraded operation in which the transmission/reception condition of the ultrasonic vibrator is changed according to the detected abnormal state.
Claims7
An ultrasonic diagnostic device, comprising:
- a cooling mechanism configured to cool an ultrasonic probe unit by circulating a refrigerant in a cable of the ultrasonic probe unit in which ultrasonic transducers are provided;
- a cooling abnormality detecting unit configured to detect an abnormal state in the cooling mechanism;
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- an operating unit configured to, when the abnormal state of the cooling mechanism is detected by the cooling abnormality detecting unit, perform a fallback operation to change a transmission reception condition of the ultrasonic transducers in accordance with the detected abnormal state,
- wherein a list of fallback operations with respect to the abnormal state is displayed on a display screen for selection by an operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.