A system and method capable of measuring the fat content in the target
organ by the gray level distribution of pixels forming a ultrasonic
section image and a recording medium of recording a fat content measuring
program are disclosed. In order to quantify the fat content of the target
organ from the information of the stored ultrasonic section image, a
target section and a comparative section in each of the longitudinal
sections are set, and a representative gray level value of the respective
section is calculated, thereby the fat content of the target section is
quantified in a numerical value relative to the representative gray level
value of the comparative section.