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Title:
MEDICAL IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE-PROCESSING PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/056662
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Provided is a medical image-processing apparatus with which diseases can be diagnosed easily. The medical image-processing apparatus has a morphology-specifying means, a function-calculating means and a display-processing means. The morphology-specifying means specifies morphological data pertaining to the thickness of a cardiac muscle of a subject or the thickness of an area surrounding same from medical image data obtained by filming the subject using a medical imaging apparatus. The function-calculating means calculates cardiac function data pertaining to the movements of the cardiac muscle of the subject on the basis of the medical image data. The display-processing means expresses combinations of the specified morphological data and calculated cardiac function data with colors and displays same on a display means.

Inventors:
YAMAMORI KYOHEI (JP)
KAWASAKI TOMOHIRO (JP)
WAKAI SATOSHI (JP)
YOKOTA TETSUYA (JP)
YAMAGATA YOSHIFUMI (JP)
SHINODA KENSUKE (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2011/005904
Publication Date:
May 03, 2012
Filing Date:
October 21, 2011
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Assignee:
TOSHIBA KK (JP)
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYS CORP (JP)
YAMAMORI KYOHEI (JP)
KAWASAKI TOMOHIRO (JP)
WAKAI SATOSHI (JP)
YOKOTA TETSUYA (JP)
YAMAGATA YOSHIFUMI (JP)
SHINODA KENSUKE (JP)
International Classes:
A61B6/03; A61B5/055
Foreign References:
JP2004267393A2004-09-30
JP2004313551A2004-11-11
JP2006198060A2006-08-03
JP2005143622A2005-06-09
JP2008173236A2008-07-31
JP2008253753A2008-10-23
JP2009028362A2009-02-12
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
MISAWA PATENT OFFICE, p. c. (JP)
Patent business corporation Misawa patent firm (JP)
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