PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress deterioration of quality of an ultrasonic image while reducing an amount of calculation related to execution of adaptive beamforming processing.SOLUTION: An ultrasonic measuring apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe in which a plurality of ultrasonic elements for transmitting/receiving an ultrasonic wave are arranged and an arithmetic processing part that executes a plurality of items of multi-stage signal processing of beamforming processing for a reception signal received for each ultrasonic element and adaptive beamforming processing, in which setting conditions for the beamforming processing are different, and creates an ultrasonic image based on an average signal of the result of each item of multi-stage signal processing.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 16COPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT【課題】適応型ビームフォーミング処理の実行に係る計算量を削減しつつ、超音波画像の画質の劣化を抑制すること。【解決手段】超音波を送受信する複数の超音波素子が配列された超音波プローブと、前記超音波素子毎に受信した受信信号に対するビームフォーミング処理と適応型ビームフォーミング処理との多段信号処理であって、前記ビームフォーミング処理の設定条件が異なる複数の前記多段信号処理を行い、各多段信号処理の結果の平均信号に基づいて超音波画像を生成する演算処理部と、を備えた超音波測定装置である。【選択図】図16
