Hitachi Medical Corporation

Daiichi Pure Chemicals Co., Ltd.

Sekisui Medical Co., Ltd.

Toudai Tlo, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Laurel Bank Machine Co., Ltd.

Osamu Miyazaki

Koichi Hirokawa

Taiga Goto

Tetsuo Nakazawa

Hiroto Kokubun

Yasuo Omi

Hiroyuki Ebinuma

Yoshiaki Sugaya

Takashi Kadowaki

Toshimasa Yamauchi

Hirokazu Yago

Takayuki Nagaoka

Yuka Akimoto

Yoshihiro Goto

Kazuo Hara

Takashi Shirahata

Ryota Kohara

Shinichi Migita

Kohei Takubo

Hiromitsu Hayashi

Syunsuke Kurashita

Minoru Yoshida

Hiromichi Yamada

Hironori Ueki

Yasutaka Konno

Eiichi Kokubo

Mitsuaki Yamamoto

Tsuyoshi Mitake

Akira Hirata

Takayuki Kadomura

Hiroshi Nishimura

Tomo Shimizu

Toru Suzuki

Ichiro Miura

Toshiaki Ito

Kyoichi Osako

Toshiyuki Irie

Motomichi Doi

Masanao Matsuo

Eiichi Yoshikawa

Tomohisa Nishio

Kazuyuki Seki

Akiko Suzuki

Susumu Yasuda

Kyoko Tanaka

Masahiko Aoyagi

Isamu Fukamachi

Testuo Nakazawa

Mizuo Oshita

Ryo Takagi

Satoko Seo

Mieko Ota

Takayuki c/o Hitachi Medical Corp Nagaoka

There are provided a pre-treatment technique for a glycated hemoglobin-containing sample, which is a simple and convenient treatment, is free from problems in storage stability and environmental aspects, and is capable of exposing an epitope sufficiently in a short time; and an method for an immunological assay of glycated hemoglobin using this technique. A method for pre-treating a glycated hemoglobin-containing sample for an immunological assay of glycated hemoglobin, the method includes treating a glycated hemoglobin-containing sample with a pre-treatment solution containing (A) guanidine or a salt thereof and (B) a nonionic surfactant and/or a nitrite.

Method for pre-treating sample containing glycated hemoglobin

An image analysis system that analyzes an image of an object's organ having an anatomically symmetric shape includes:

Image analyzing system and method

Provided is a general-purpose technique capable of measuring the HbA1c content, which is comparable to the IFCC reference method. An antibody which reacts with a peptide or a protein having an amino acid sequence of VHLTPE (SEQ ID NO: 1) at the N-terminus in which the N-terminal valine is not modified, but does not react with a peptide or a protein in which the N-terminal valine of the relevant polypeptide or protein is modified.

Antibody to N-terminal region of hemoglobin &#x3b2;-chain

An image display apparatus according to the invention comprises reading section () which reads in an image data set of a subject acquired by a medical imaging apparatus () from a data recording device () which stores the image data set; input sections () which input a desired object organ to the read-in image data set; object organ extracting section () which extracts the inputted object organ; reference position setting section () which sets a reference position for producing an unfolded image in the circumferential direction of the bore of the extracted object organ; calculating device () which calculates pixel information in the circumferential direction of the bore of the object organ from the set reference position; and image display section () which displays the calculated pixel information in the circumferential direction of the bore of the object organ.

Image display apparatus and program

An X-ray CT apparatus is provided with an X-ray tube current modulation pattern calculation means that calculates an X-ray tube current modulation pattern based on a 3-dimensional model of an object calculated based on a scanogram image of the object, start-up shape acquisition means that acquires a start-up shape of CT values of a predetermined region of the object or CT value time differences after injecting contrast agent into the object, time contrast curve prediction means that predicts a time contrast curve indicative of a time sequential change of contrast in a diagnostic portion of the object at each slice position at a scan time based on the acquired start-up shape of the CT values or CT value time differences, object 3-dimensional model modification means that modifies a 3-dimensional model of the object based on the predicted time contrast curve, and X-ray tube electric current modulation pattern modification means that modifies the X-ray tube electric current modulation pattern based on the modified 3-dimensional model of the object.

X-ray CT apparatus

A method includes a periodic motion data input step Sof receiving input of periodic motion data indicating changes of the periodic motion with time in an object to be examined who is a target of image data collection, a step Sof estimating fluctuations in the time resolution of the image data with time based on the periodic motion data, designating an image collection range in the object, and adjusting the collection position of the image data such that the image data is collected in the image collection range at a suitable time of image data collection, the estimated time resolution being set in a predetermined suitable range, and an image data collection position control step Sof relatively moving at least a part of the image data collection range and the collection position of the image data such that the part of the range and the position are superimposed on each other within a time when the image data of the image data collection range has a time resolution within the desired range based on the image data collection conditions.

Method and system for collecting image data from image data collection range including periodically moving part

Kits and methods for selectively assaying a target adiponectin multimer in a biological sample. Such methods accurately evaluate the relationship between a disease and adiponectin through selective assay of adiponectin multimers and provide information that cannot be obtained through measurement of the total amount of adiponectin alone. A method for selectively assaying a target adiponectin multimer in a biological sample comprising distinguishing target adiponectin multimer from the other adiponectin multimers by using a protease and/or an antibody.

Method of selectively assaying adiponectin multimers

There are provided a function image display method and device capable of performing analysis of biological function information by acquiring from a single image, information obtained from a tomogram and information obtained from a plurality of function images without need of observing the plurality of function images and the tomogram by successively moving the eye line, and easily making judgment about the danger degree of the biological function abnormality. A plurality of function images each displayed by a unique and arbitrary gradation color scale are combined with an arbitrary weight or an image obtained by calculating the inter-function images is displayed or these are combined with the tomogram with an arbitrary weight. Furthermore, an operator can arbitrarily set and modify the range to which weight is applied, the range for displaying the gradation color scale, and the range to be combined.

Function image display method and device

A nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus comprising a mechanical collimator for effecting passage in a given direction of photons with given energy emitted from an object injected or dosed with a drug containing a radioactive isotope; a former-stage detector for detecting positional information at a point of reaction of photons having passed through the mechanical collimator and information on the momentum of charged particles generated by the reaction; a latter-stage detector disposed in the subsequent stage of the former-stage detector to detect information on the photons having been scattered by the former-stage detector; and image reconstruction means for reconstructing an image from detection information having been collected from the former-stage detector and latter-stage detector, wherein the image reconstruction means is built so that differentiation is carried out on the information on the photons having passed through the mechanical collimator and the information on the photons having been scattered by the former-stage detector and that the image reconstruction is carried out by different image reconstruction algorithms from the individual differentiated detection information.

Nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus

An image processing method comprises: an inputting step of inputting image data which is obtained by imaging a subject for a predetermined period of time with a medical imaging apparatus and is arranged in time series; an extracting along the time axis step of extracting pixels which satisfy a predetermined condition along the time axis from all the pixels arranged in time series for each pixel coordinate position with respect to each pixel in the image data; and a constructing step of constructing a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image based on the pixels extracted along the time axis in the extracting along the time axis step.

Image processing method, image processing device, computer aided detection, and method for filtering along the time axis

A radiographing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is characterized in that an image processing device comprises an acquisition device which acquires projection data of a first energy spectrum and projection data of a second energy spectrum, and a synthetic image generating device which synthesizes a first image on the basis of the projection data of the first energy spectrum, and a second image on the basis of the projection data of the second energy spectrum according to a predetermined synthetic condition, and generating a synthetic image, and a display device displays the generated synthetic image.

Radiographing apparatus and image processing program

The present invention is directed to a monoclonal antibody against a soluble fibrin, which specifically recognizes a conformation-changed site newly occurred in a C-terminal region of an A&#x3b1;-chain of the soluble fibrin formed through thrombin digestion of fibrinogen. The present invention is also directed to a hybridoma which produces the antibody, an immunological assay method employing the antibody, and a method for evaluating hypercoagulability in a test sample by measuring the soluble fibrin level in the sample with the assay method. Through employment of the monoclonal antibody of the present invention, soluble fibrin on which plasmin has not acted, which reflects exclusively initial hypercoagulability, can be specifically detected.

Anti-human soluble fibrin monoclonal antibody and immunological assay method using the antibody

An image processing device according to the present invention which includes image creating means for creating each of a smoothened image and a sharpened image with respect to at least a part of image data, and mixed image creating means for mixing the smoothened image and the sharpened image created by the image creating means to create a mixed image, including: analysis quantity calculating means for calculating an analysis quantity on plural pixel values in each matrix that surrounds each pixel of the image data and has any matrix size; control means for controlling the mixing ratio between the smoothened image and the sharpened image in the mixed image creating means in accordance with the analysis quantity calculated by the analysis quantity calculating means; and display means for displaying the mixed image that is controlled by the control means and output from the mixed image generating means.

Image processing device and method

An image for treatment region considered as already completed treatment in the course of medical treatment is acquired. Time up to completion of the whole scope of intended treatment regions is estimated on the basis of the already completed treatment region.

Image processor for medical treatment support

An X-ray CT apparatus is provided, having a function for deciding an X-ray imaging condition prior to scanning, the X-ray imaging condition allowing an acquisition of contrast to noise ratio appropriate for identifying a diagnostic object. Prior to the real scan, a three-dimensional model of an object is estimated from scanogram projection data of the object, a contrast to noise ratio enabling identification of the diagnostic object is calculated, based on the diagnostic object size set by an operator via an operating device when planning the scan, the three-dimensional model, and a standard imaging condition that is stored in a storage device. Then, an optimum irradiated X-ray condition (tube current and tube voltage) is calculated for achieving the contrast to noise ratio enabling identification. The X-ray condition being calculated is displayed in the form of information such as image SD value and exposure dose, under the calculated X-ray condition and under other condition.

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Moriya, Japan

Osamu Miyazaki