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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2007
Takashi Shirahata, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Shirahata, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical image display apparatus of the present invention is used in a medical image display system having a function of preparing three-dimensional image data on a subject including a plurality of luminal organs and displaying the prepared three-dimensional image data on a display () as a three-dimensional image. The medical image display apparatus includes a curved-surface creation section () which specifies a desired luminal organ in an image showing the plurality of luminal organs displayed on the display () and sets a curved surface where the specified desired luminal organ is present; a developed-image creation section () which extracts, from the three-dimensional image data, pixel values on the curved surface set by the curved-surface creation section (), creates curved-surface image data by use of the extracted pixel values on the curved surface, and reconstructs two-dimensional image data (developed image data) from the created curved-surface image data; and a CPU () which controls the display () so as to display the developed image data reconstructed by the developed-image creation section ().