1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an ultrasound diagnostic system and, more particularly, to an ultrasound diagnostic system that allows an examiner and an examinee to view a diagnosis result on different screens through a single display unit by adjusting viewing angles depending on positions of the examiner and the examinee.
2. Description of the Related Art
Generally, an ultrasound diagnostic system refers to a non-invasive apparatus that irradiates an ultrasound signal from a surface of a patient body towards a target internal organ beneath the body surface and obtains an image of a monolayer or blood flow in soft tissue from information in the reflected ultrasound signal (ultrasound echo-signal). The ultrasound diagnostic system has been widely used for diagnosis of the heart, the abdomen, the urinary organs, and in obstetrics and gynecology due to various merits such as small size, low price, real-time image display, and high stability through elimination of radiation exposure, as compared with other image diagnostic systems, such as X-ray diagnostic systems, computerized tomography scanners (CT scanners), magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs), nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatuses, and the like.
The ultrasound diagnostic system transmits an ultrasound signal to a diagnosis target, receives the ultrasound echo-signal reflected therefrom, and displays an ultrasound image, particularly, a two-dimensional grey-scale ultrasound image, on a monitor, which corresponds to a display mode, for example, B-mode, M-mode, Doppler mode, etc., based on the received echo-signal. It should be noted that the above description is provided for understanding the background of the invention and is not a description of a conventional technique.
In diagnosis with the ultrasound diagnostic system, two monitors are used to provide a diagnosis result to both an examiner and an examinee such that the monitors for the examiner and the examinee display the same image or such that the monitor for the examiner displays all necessary information for diagnosis and the monitor for to the examinee displays only an image of the diagnosis result.
As such, separate monitors are needed to provide the diagnosis result to both the examiner and the examinee.