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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
May. 05, 1995
Koei Yamamoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuhisa Miyaguchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Keisuke Mori, Kyoto, JP;
Akifumi Tachibana, Kyoto, JP;
Takao Makino, Kyoto, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Shizuoka, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A medical X-ray image processing apparatus, comprising an X-ray sensor which converts an image of X-rays penetrated an object into an electric signal using a solid-state image sensor and a data processor which processes the electric signal to generate an electric image signal corresponding to the X-ray image, compares the data of each picture element derived from the above-mentioned solid-state image sensor with the data of picture elements being adjacent to the picture element and present within a certain region, and corrects the data of the picture element referring to the data of the above-mentioned adjacent picture elements only when the data of the picture element is exceptionally different from the data of the adjacent picture elements by a predetermined reference value or more. Consequently, the apparatus eliminates only the exceptionally large noise, such as spike noise caused by the X-rays having directly reached the solid-state image sensor and also caused by the secondary X-rays, thereby being capable of generating images having high resolution.