JPS63158042A - Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (b) Industrial application field The present invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.

(B) Prior art and its problems In general, when making a diagnosis in the medical field using an ultrasound diagnostic device, findings are recorded in a medical record. is attached to the medical record, or a diagnostic image on a monitor is sketched on the medical record.

However, it is troublesome to attach photographs or hard copies to medical records, and since the thickness of the medical records and photographs creates holes, pasting photographs etc. makes the medical records difficult to handle. On the other hand, it is difficult to create a sketch for each diagnostic image.
Furthermore, sketches have the disadvantage that they are less accurate than photographs and the like.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to facilitate the handling and management of diagnostic images and medical records.

(c) Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides an image memory in which echo signal data obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves is written, date of diagnosis, patient name, In an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus having a character pattern memory into which signal data corresponding to predetermined items such as findings are stored, there is a graphic memory in which a line diagram corresponding to the format of a medical chart is stored, and a A medical record memory in which line diagrams, signal data in the character pattern memory and echo signal data in the image memory are written in accordance with a medical record format, and a diagnostic image and the predetermined items are printed based on data read from this medical record memory. It is equipped with a printer to create medical records.

(D) Effect According to the above configuration, the diagnostic image and predetermined items are printed in accordance with the format of the medical chart, and a medical chart in which the diagnostic image and the predetermined items are entered is obtained.

(E) Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, l is an ultrasonic diagnostic device, 2 is an ultrasound probe that transmits ultrasonic waves to the subject and receives the reflected waves, and 3 is a transmitter that outputs a transmitting signal by 4 degrees. 4 is a wave receiving circuit that amplifies and detects the echo signal from the ultrasonic probe 2; 5 is a wave receiving circuit A that converts the echo signal from the wave receiving circuit 4 from A/D;
The /D conversion circuit 6 is an image memory into which echo signal data from the A/D conversion circuit 5 is written or read.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a character pattern memory in which signal data corresponding to predetermined items such as diagnosis date, patient name, and findings are written, and such data is manually entered from the human power section 14 at the time of diagnosis. 7 is a circuit that synthesizes echo signal data read from the image memory 6 and signal data corresponding to predetermined items read from the character pattern memory 8;
This synthesis circuit 7 performs signal processing for simultaneously displaying a diagnostic image based on echo signal data and predetermined items on the monitor 10.

9 is a D/A conversion circuit that converts the output of the synthesis circuit 7 into D/A, and based on the signal data from this D/A conversion circuit 9, a diagnostic image based on the echo signal data and the above-mentioned are displayed on the monitor IO. The predetermined items are displayed simultaneously as shown in FIG. In Figure 2, the date (DATE), patient name (NAME), lesion area indication (MASS), liver (L
This shows a state in which predetermined items such as IVER) and portal vein (Pot'TAL VEIN) are displayed alongside the diagnostic image.

The display of such diagnostic images and predetermined items is conventional and sophisticated.

The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus 1 of this embodiment is equipped with a medical chart creation function, and includes a graphic memory 11 in which a diagram corresponding to the medical chart format is stored, and a graphic memory 11 that stores diagrams corresponding to the medical chart format. A chart memory 12 in which the corresponding line diagram, signal data corresponding to the date and patient name read out from the character pattern memory 8, and signal data from the synthesis circuit 7 are written in accordance with the chart format, and a chart memory 12 that is read out from this chart memory 12. The computer is also equipped with a printer I3 that prints the generated data.

FIG. 3 shows a diagram stored in the graphic memory 11, that is, a medical chart format.
Configure entry fields such as date, patient name, findings, etc.

At the time of diagnosis, the human power section 14 inputs predetermined items such as date and findings, and also manually starts printing a medical record. Reference numeral 15 is a control circuit that controls writing and reading of each memory 8, 11, and 12, and 16 is a D/A conversion circuit that performs D/A conversion of signal data read from the medical record memory I2.

In the medical record memory 12, in response to a key operation to start printing in the input unit 14, a line diagram corresponding to the medical record format shown in FIG. Corresponding signal data and output data of the synthesis circuit 7 corresponding to the display on the monitor tO are written in a predetermined writing area according to the format of the medical chart. That is, the signal data corresponding to the patient name and date from the character pattern memory 8 is entered in the medical chart format (1) in FIG.
The output data of the synthesis circuit 7 corresponding to the display on the monitor IO is written in the area of the medical record memory 12 corresponding to 11A and 11B, respectively, to the area of the medical record memory I2 corresponding to the entry column C. Of these, the output data of the combining circuit 7 is
It is written into the medical record memory 12 in synchronization with the scanning.

This signal data of the medical record memory 12 is read out and D
/A conversion and is printed by the printer 13.

FIG. 4 shows a medical chart 1 printed by this printer 13.
5 is shown. In this medical record 15, the patient name, date, diagnostic image displayed on the monitor 10, etc. are entered in predetermined columns A and B.

Each is printed on C. .

In this way, diagrams corresponding to the format of the medical record, predetermined items, and signal data corresponding to diagnostic images are written in the medical record memory 12 according to the medical record format, and the signal data in the medical record memory 12 is read out and printed. Therefore, a medical record 15 is created in which predetermined items such as eye weight and patient's name, as well as diagnostic images, are printed in the predetermined entry fields.As a result, photographs of diagnostic images, etc., can be added to the medical record as in the past. This eliminates the need for users to attach images to medical records or sketch diagnostic images, and information that was previously written by hand in medical records, such as patient name and date, will now be automatically printed. It's convenient.

In the embodiment described above, the output data of the synthesis circuit 7 in which the echo signal data of the image memory 6 and the signal data of the character pattern memory 8 are synthesized is written in the medical record memory 12. As an embodiment, echo signal data from the image memory 6 may be written into the medical record memory 12 instead of the output data of the synthesis circuit 7.

(f) Effects As described above, the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the present invention includes a graphic memory in which a diagram corresponding to the format of the medical record is stored;
It has a medical record memory in which signal data corresponding to the diagram, prescribed items, and diagnostic images are written in accordance with the medical record format, and a printer that reads and prints the signal data from this medical record memory, and is equipped with a medical record creation function. , medical records with diagnostic images and predetermined items printed on them can be obtained, which eliminates the trouble of pasting photographs, etc., on medical records, which is required in the past, and makes management and storage easier. This eliminates the need for such work.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a diagnostic image on a monitor, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a chart format, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a created chart. . l... Ultrasound diagnostic device, 6... Image memory, 8...
-Character pattern memory, 11...Graphic memory, 12...Chart memory, 13...Printer. Jaw Man Shimadzu Corporation

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Ultrasound having an image memory in which echo signal data obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves is written, and a character pattern memory in which signal data corresponding to predetermined items such as diagnosis date, patient name, and findings are written. The diagnostic device includes a graphic memory in which a diagram corresponding to the format of the medical record is stored, and the diagram in the graphic memory, signal data in the character pattern memory, and echo signal data in the image memory are written in accordance with the format of the medical record. 1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising: a medical record memory; and a printer that creates a medical record on which a diagnostic image and the predetermined items are printed based on data read from the medical record memory.