Abstract: An ultrasonic blood flow imaging apparatus of this invention includes an ultrasonic probe, a transmission system, a reception system, a B mode processing system, a CFM processing system, an FFT processing system, a video system, and a control system. The CFM processing system includes a new discriminating means. The discriminating means receives power, average blood flow velocity, and variance data output from an auto-correlation circuit. The discriminating means can discriminate Doppler shift signals (blood flow signals), noise signals, and clutter signals from each other with high precision on the basis of a relationship in combination of two or more received factors, i.e., the power, average blood flow velocity, and variance data. With such discrimination processing, only necessary blood flow signals can be extracted, and hence high-precision blood flow information can be obtained.

Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus comprises an ultrasonic transducer for transmitting ultrasonic beams to a subject and converting echoes from the subject to echo signals, a scan controller for selectively switching a scanning mode between a first scanning mode in which a predetermined number of rasters in each of a plurality of scanning blocks each having the predetermined number of rasters are scanned repeatedly and echo signals at a predetermined number of sample points in each of the rasters are extracted block by block and a second scanning mode in which a plurality of rasters are repeatedly scanned a predetermined number of times while at least one raster is shifted sequentially and data are output at constant intervals, a transmitter/receiver circuit for driving the ultrasonic transducer in accordance with a scanning mode selected by the scan controller, processes the echo signals output from the ultrasonic transducer to output an image signal and a television monitor for visually displaying the image si