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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2016
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hirohisa Izumo, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to an X-ray CT apparatus and a scanning method of the present invention, in order to efficiently create an image used for diagnosis, an operator selects a desired part from a part selection GUI before main scanning by using an ROI object imitating a shape of each part, held in a storage device, and thus the ROI object can be disposed on a scanogram image, in which setting information corresponding to a part is set for the ROI object in advance, a region of interest associated with the part is set, main scanning is performed under conditions associated with the set region of interest, and an image is reconstructed on the basis of X-ray information obtained through the main scanning.