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Abstract

The present invention, relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic device that simultaneously displays an IMT and the elastic indices of a blood vessel to determine, the risk for developing arteriosclerosis. The ultrasonic diagnostic device includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits ultrasound to a body and receives ultrasonic echo to output a reception signal; image data generation mechanism that generates, based on the reception signal, image data representing an ultrasonic image on a blood vessel of the body; IMT measurement mechanism that measures, based on the image data, an IMT of the blood vessel; elastic index measurement mechanism that determines, based on the image data, a value representing an elastic index of the blood vessel; and a display that displays a two-dimensional coordinate system in which the IMT is represented on a first coordinate axis and the value representing the elastic index of the blood vessel is represented on a second coordinate axis.

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