PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide ultrasonic diagnostic equipment for improving diagnostic accuracy and reproducibility using a reference cross-section by allowing even an unskilled person to easily draw the reference cross-section by correct two-dimensional scanning to be required for cardiac testing, and also to provide an ultrasonic image processing apparatus, and an ultrasonic diagnostic equipment control program.SOLUTION: The ultrasonic diagnostic equipment easily and rapidly acquires an MPR image corresponding to an ideal MPR position by setting on volume data, the MPR position corresponding to the desired reference cross-section position of the heart, while referring to a three-dimensional image to be obtained by three-dimensional ultrasonic scanning in cardiac testing. In a state where the ideal MPR image is acquired by the three-dimensional ultrasonic scanning, an ultrasonic scanning region is automatically changed-over into a two-dimensional region from a three-dimensional region, thereby to perform the two-dimensional scanning where the ultrasonic scanning region is defined as a cross-section inside a subject corresponding to the set MPR position (the cross-section inside the subject closest to the MPR position or the cross-section inside the subject being substantially the same as the MPR position).COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】心臓の検査に必要となる正確な二次元走査による基準断面の描出を熟練者でなくても容易とし、基準断面を用いた診断の精度や再現性を高めることが可能な、超音波診断装置、超音波画像処理装置及び超音波診断装置制御プログラムを提供すること。【解決手段】心臓検査において、三次元超音波走査によって得られる三次元画像を参照しながら、所望する心臓の基準断面位置に対応するMPR位置をボリュームデータ上に設定し、理想的なMPR位置に対応するMPR画像を容易且つ迅速に取得することができる。また、この三次元超音波走査によって理想的なMPR画像が得られている状態で、超音波走査領域は三次元領域から二次元領域に自動的に切り換えて、超音波走査領域を、設定されたMPR位置に対応する被検体内断面(MPR位置に最寄りの被検体内断面、或いはMPR位置と実質的に同一の被検体内断面)とする二次元走査を実行することができる。【選択図】図2
