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Abstract

An apparatus for obtaining a blood backscattering power, comprising a signal input unit for inputting an electric signal which is converted from an ultrasound signal which has been generated in a certain depth in the human body by reflecting or backscattering; a Doppler spectrum obtaining unit for obtaining a Doppler spectrum which contains information on a distribution of an intensity of the above electric signal as a function of a time and a Doppler frequency, where the Doppler frequency is a quantity indicating a velocity component in a direction of the above transmitted ultrasound signal, of an object which backscatters the transmitted ultrasound signal; a Doppler frequency range determining unit for determining an elimination frequency range of the above Doppler frequency for each time; and an accumulating unit for accumulating the above intensity over a whole range of the above Doppler frequency except the above elimination frequency range for each time, to obtain a blood backscattering power of the time. The apparatus may further contain: a time range determining unit for determining an efective time range; and an averaging unit for averaging the above blood backscattering power over the efective time range to obtain an average of the above blood backscattering power in the efective time range.

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