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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2007
Takuya Sakaguchi, Shioya-gun, JP;
Takashi Ichihara, Otawara, JP;
Takuya Sakaguchi, Shioya-gun, JP;
Takashi Ichihara, Otawara, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which stores the data of a plurality of images in an angiography sequence, and a computation unit which generates a reference time density curve concerning a reference region set in a blood supply region to a blood supplied region and a plurality of time density curves concerning a plurality of local regions set in the blood supplied region on the basis of the data of a plurality of images, and computes a plurality of indexes respectively representing the correlations of the plurality of time density curves with respect to the reference time density curve.