An educational simulator for transesophageal echocardiography device,
which includes a human phantom patterned after a human upper body having
a neck, an esophagus and a stomach which communicate with each other, and
a heart, a dummy probe which is patterned after a genuine ultrasonic
probe and of which the tip is embedded with a magnet, a sensor which
detects the insertion length and rotation angle of the dummy probe and is
placed in the said neck, magnetic sensors which sense the magnetism of
the said magnet, a three-dimensional image data archive which stores
three-dimensional image data of echocardiography, a CPU which calculates
the position, inclination and direction of the dummy probe on the basis
of information from each said sensor and clips tomographic image data
from the three-dimensional image data on the basis of the calculation,
and a display section which shows the clipped tomographic image data as
two-dimensional images.