Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hisashi Yasuda

Katsuhito Morino

Go Mukumoto

Shigeo Kaminaga

Tomoyasu Komori

Masakazu Matsuura

Yasunobu Yamada

Masao Yamahana

Gen Kondo

Atsushi Fukano

Hiromitsu Seto

Katsuhiro Morino

According to one embodiment, a medical imaging diagnosis apparatus includes a top-plate, a bed, a first gantry, a second gantry and a moving assembly. The top-plate places a subject thereon. The bed supports the top-plate. The first gantry includes an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector which revolve around the top-plate. The second gantry includes a gamma ray detector which detects gamma rays emitted from the subject. The moving assembly moves, based on a first position indicative of a center position of an effective view field in the first gantry and a second position indicative of a center position of an effective view field in the second gantry, the top-plate relative to the second position.

Medical imaging diagnosis apparatus, nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus, X-ray CT apparatus, and bed apparatus

A medical imaging apparatus includes a reconstruction unit, a ROI setting unit, and a controller. The reconstruction unit receives projection data that is based on radiation detected by a detector, divides the projection data into a plurality of subsets, and apply a reconstruction process to the subsets by successive approximation to successively generate images. The ROI setting unit sets a ROI in the images. The controller obtains a variation value indicating a change in image quality from the images, and, when the variation value reaches a predetermined value, instructs the reconstruction unit on a new subset count less than the number of the subsets to sequentially reconstruct subsets as many as the new subset count into an image. The reconstruction unit assigns a weight to the projection data based on the ROI, and divides the projection data into the subsets based on the weight.

Medical imaging apparatus

An X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector. The X-ray generator and the X-ray detector rotate about a subject. A controller controls the timing of exposing X-rays from the X-ray generator. The controller controls the collection timing for the projection data used by the X-ray detector and causes the X-ray detector to continuously collect the projection data at the specified collection timing. The controller causes additional information representing the state of exposure of the X-rays to be added to each projection data that has been collected by the X-ray detector at said specified collection timing.

X-ray CT apparatus and a method of controlling the X-ray CT apparatus

In an X-ray CT scanner having an X-ray tube which applies an X-ray spreading in a body axis direction of a subject, and an X-ray detector having a wide imaging range which detects the X-ray passed through the subject and converts the detected X-ray into an electric signal, a desired image creation time is set by use of a specific CT value curve in a console input unit before scanning with the X-ray. After the scanning, data of the CT value change curve is generated based on the obtained projection data. An image creation range in the generated change curve is determined based on an image creation range set in the console input unit, and the image creation is performed in the image creation unit based on the determined image creation time.

X-ray CT scanner and image creating method

An X-ray CT apparatus detects a predetermined characteristic wave from each electrocardiographic waveform acquired from an electrocardiograph, predicts intervals with which the characteristic wave appears based on appearance times of the detected predetermined characteristic wave in each electrocardiographic waveform, and determines an X-ray irradiation start time based on the predicted interval time. After an instruction to start collection of X-ray intensity distribution data is received, if an appearance interval of a detected predetermined characteristic wave is within an acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as a normal heartbeat. If the appearance interval of the detected predetermined characteristic wave is outside the acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as an abnormal heartbeat. During a period after receiving the instruction to start the collection until reaching a time of starting the collection of X-ray detection information, when determined as an abnormal heartbeat, an X-ray irradiation start time is recalculated, and then determined.

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Nasushiobara, Japan

Hisashi Yasuda