To prevent the generation of a waste area or an image defect regardless of the combination of the size of a gained image or the image size of an area of concern with the maximum output size of an outputting film in a medical image output device.
This image output device QA-WS 40 is provided with an area concerned designation means, 43 for designating the area concerned of a desired size to the whole image to a desired position; an area concerned image generating means 44 for extracting an area concerned image data S2 for the designated area concerned; a variable power processing part 45 for performing a variable power processing so that the image of the designated area concerned is outputted in substantially the same size as the maximum output size of the outputting film to generate a power varied image data S4;, an image processing means 47 for subjecting the power varied image data S4 for the area concerned to an image processing so that the image readability of the image outputted to the output film can be improved according to the variable power rate to generate a processed image data S5; and an output means 49 for outputting the processed image data S5 to a selected film.
SHIMURA KAZUO
OKUBO TAKESHI
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