Abstract: An ultrasonic probe including a plurality of transducer elements for transmitting an ultrasonic wave and receiving a reflected ultrasonic wave from inside of an object to be examined, electrodes for applying a voltage to the transducer elements, and an acoustic matching layer for taking a matching of an acoustic impedance between the transducer elements and the object to be examined, wherein the acoustic matching layer includes a plurality of materials each of which has a different acoustic impedance and has an anisotropy in acoustic characteristic between an ultrasonic wave-transmitting direction from the transducer elements and a direction perpendicular to the ultrasonic wave-transmitting direction.

Abstract: The reactor start-up monitoring apparatus is provided with an SRNM detector, an analog amplifier, an N/D converter, a pulse measurement system, a Campbell measurement system and reactor power monitoring means. The pulse measurement system is provided with pulse counting means for counting the pulse number of output pulses of the detector from the first digital data from the converter, and pulse measurement evaluating means for converting the measurement value to reactor power and evaluating the reactor power. The Campbell measurement system is provided with sum operating means for adding a plurality of sampling values forming the first digital data from the converter and acquiring the second digital data having accuracy of bits more than those of the first digital data, power operating means for obtaining mean square values based on the second digital data and Campbell measurement evaluating means for converting the mean square values to reactor power and evaluating the reactor power.

Abstract: In an ultrasonic probe, an acoustic matching layer, which is fixed on the front side of a transducer for transmitting an ultrasonic wave and receiving a reflected wave thereof and matches in acoustic impedance the transducer to a living tissue in an object to be examined, is formed in such a structure that the acoustic impedance thereof is varied continuously in the thickness direction from the transducer to the object to be examined.

Abstract: A Doppler ultrasound diagnostic apparatus equipped with Doppler detection units and a forward/reverse separating means in an audio signal output system, a complex Doppler signal control means which stores a complex Doppler signal received during the Doppler-mode period and reads out said complex Doppler signal during the B-mode period to use as a complex Doppler signal during the B-mode period, wherein said complex Doppler signal control means includes storage means for storing complex Doppler signals that are received during the Doppler-mode period; control means for reading out complex Doppler signals stored in said storage means in a reverse order during the B-mode period; complex frequency inversion means for inverting the frequency of the complex Doppler signals read by said control means in the reverse order from said storage means; and phase rotation correction means for correcting a difference in phase at a moment when the Doppler mode is connected to the B-mode for a complex Doppler signal from said

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasonic probe to be inserted into the body of a subject for image-processing a diagnostic target thereof by ultrasonic waves transmitted to and received from the inside of the body and, more particularly, to an internal examination ultrasonic probe which can be directly installed on a palpation finger. The ultrasonic probe includes a transducer array for transmitting and receiving the ultrasonic waves; a housing for supporting the transducer array, which housing is provided with a device for installing a fingertip of an operator therein; and electric wiring members connected to the transducer array and extending from the housing to the outside so that transmission and reception signals of the ultrasonic waves are supplied therethrough.