PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the visual perceptibility of a puncture needle in an ultrasound image.SOLUTION: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprises a transmitting unit 107 for sending an ultrasound wave such that the ultrasound wave converges within a subject by selecting a send transducer string Tx which gradually moves in the string direction synchronously with send events, and a receiving unit 110 for: generating reception signal trains rf for the respective transducers based on reflected ultrasound wave synchronously with the send events; selecting a receive transducer string Rx in which the signal strength of the reception signal of the reflected wave from a puncture needle 101b is relatively high; determining a target region Bx where subframe data dsi of an acoustic line signal is to be generated in a range the sent ultrasound wave reaches within the subject synchronously with the send events; generating the subframe data dsi of the acoustic line signal by phase-adding the reception signal trains rf corresponding to the transducers in the receive transducers string Rx for each of plural observation points Pij in the target region Bx; and generating frame data ds of synthesized acoustic line signal by synthesizing the subframe data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1【課題】超音波画像中の穿刺針の視認性を向上する。【解決手段】送信イベントに同期して列方向に漸次移動する送信振動子列Txを選択して超音波が被検体中で集束するように送信する送信部107と、送信イベントに同期して、反射超音波に基づいて振動子各々に対する受波信号列rfを生成し、穿刺針101bからの反射波の受波信号の信号強度が相対的に高くなる受信振動子列Rxを選択し、送信イベントに同期して、被検体内において送信された超音波が到達する範囲内に音響線信号のサブフレームデータdsiが生成されるべき対象領域Bxを決定し、当該対象領域Bx内の複数の観測点Pij各々について、受信振動子列Rx内の振動子に対応する受波信号列rfを整相加算することにより音響線信号のサブフレームデータdsiを生成し、これらを合成して合成音響線信号のフレームデータdsを生成する受信部110とを備えた。【選択図】図1