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Title:
MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003339666
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To obtain a tomographic image with excellent image quality even when a subject moves when the plurality of tomographic images are added or subtracted to generate the desired tomographic image.

Markers are attached to the subject to allow a prescribed tomographic profile to horizontally cross with the markers. The marker (1) is detected from the image 1 obtained by tomography in the tomographic profile (step S1), and the position of the marker (1) on the screen (a reference point (1)) is derived (step S2). A marker (2) is detected from the image 2 obtained by different imaging in the same tomographic profile (step S3), and the reference point (2) of the marker (2) is derived (step S4). One of the two images 1, 2 is moved to allow the reference points (1), (2) to coincide with each other, so that the two images 1, 2 are positioned (step S5). The positioned images 1, 2 are added or subtracted to obtain the desired processing image (step S6).


Inventors:
MATSUZAWA CHIKAKO
Application Number:
JP2002157318A
Publication Date:
December 02, 2003
Filing Date:
May 30, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
HITACHI MEDICAL CORP
International Classes:
A61B5/055; A61B6/03; G01R33/32; (IPC1-7): A61B5/055; A61B6/03; G01R33/32
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kenzo Matsuura