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Title:
RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010172560
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a radiographic imaging apparatus for improving visualization in displaying a mammogram image by removing the influence of noise even when the noise, etc., exists in a direct ray area.

The radiographic imaging apparatus includes: a breast imaging part for irradiating a subject with a radiation from a radiation source, detecting the radiation transmitted through the subject by a radiation detector, and acquiring digital image data; a boundary information detecting part for processing the digital image data and obtaining boundary information between the direct ray area and a mammogram area; a blackening area setting part for setting an area extending to the opposite side of the mammogram area as a blackening area, based on the boundary information; a blackening part for blackening the pixel of the blackening area among the digital image data, so as to perform an output; and a display part for displaying an output image from the blackening part.


Inventors:
AOKI KAE
NAKAYAMA HIROSHI
KURATOMI NAOKO
Application Number:
JP2009019883A
Publication Date:
August 12, 2010
Filing Date:
January 30, 2009
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Assignee:
TOSHIBA CORP
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYS CORP
International Classes:
A61B6/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Amagi International Patent Office