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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2022
Fujifilm Healthcare Corporation, Kashiwa, JP;
Ryota Sato, Chiba, JP;
Suguru Yokosawa, Chiba, JP;
Toru Shirai, Chiba, JP;
Kazuho Kamba, Chiba, JP;
Yoshitaka Sato, Chiba, JP;
Masahiro Takizawa, Chiba, JP;
FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
For a complex image to be complexly added, appropriate phase correction is executed by a simple method to prevent occurrence of an artifact in a signal region and to reduce noise in a background region. Two or more types of smoothing processing with different smoothing degrees are executed on a phase image of the complex image to obtain two or more types of smoothed phase images having different smoothing degrees. A weight for each of these smoothed phase images is calculated based on a signal value (SNR) of an intensity image, and addition is performed by a weight for each signal value to obtain a smoothed phase image for correction. After a phase of the complex image is corrected using the smoothed phase image, a phase-corrected complex image is complexly added. As a result, phase correction equivalent to phase correction in which a smoothing degree is weakened in the signal region and a smoothing degree is strengthened in the background region is realized.