摘要:
An ultrasound imaging apparatus (10) for inspecting a volume of a subject (12) is disclosed. The ultrasound imaging apparatus comprises an ultrasound probe (14) including a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements for acquiring three-dimensional ultrasound data in a field of view (32), and for providing three-dimensional and two-dimensional ultrasound image data in the field of view. An image processing unit (18) is coupled to the ultrasound probe for receiving the two-dimensional ultrasound image data in an image plane (42, 44) and for determining an anatomical feature (30) in the two-dimensional ultrasound image data. An evaluation unit (20) is provided for evaluating the two-dimensional ultrasound image data and for determining a quality parameter based on a positional relation of the anatomical feature with respect to the image plane, and an alignment unit (28) is provided for aligning or indicating an alignment of the image plane bases on the positional relation and the quality parameter.