To display an image intelligibly showing the spatial positional relation between a puncture position, a lesion and a medically critical site.
This puncture treatment navigation apparatus 2 provides image information navigating the puncture treatment using image data of a three-dimensional volume region obtained by scanning the three-dimensional volume region including the distal end DE of a puncture appliance ND when executing the puncture treatment to a subject with a medical image diagnosis device 1. This apparatus 2 is provided with a space specification means 16 specifying the space of a prescribed region GS positioned in the periphery of the puncture appliance ND, and display means 13 and 2B composing a marker indicating the position of the puncture appliance ND with an image of the inside or outside figure of the space GS of the prescribed region on a projection image based on the image data with the puncture appliance ND, the subject, and the medical image diagnosis device 1 positioned mutually and displaying them.
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYS CORP
Shunguchi Sekiguchi
Akio Saruwatari
Junichi Furukawa
Osamu Kawamura
Takehiko Yamada