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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2008
Tetsuya Kawagishi, Nasushiobara, JP;
Hiroyuki Ohuchi, Otawara, JP;
Yasuhiko Abe, Otawara, JP;
Thomas Helle-valle, Baltimore, MD (US);
Joao A. C. Lima, Baltimore, MD (US);
Tetsuya Kawagishi, Nasushiobara, JP;
Hiroyuki Ohuchi, Otawara, JP;
Yasuhiko Abe, Otawara, JP;
Thomas Helle-Valle, Baltimore, MD (US);
Joao A. C. Lima, Baltimore, MD (US);
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A motion function of a biological tissue is efficiently evaluated on the basis of image data collected from different medical image diagnostic apparatuses. In terms of a common analysis algorithm applied to subject's time-series image data supplied from a separate medical image diagnostic apparatus, a setting part sets a plurality of interest points on a myocardial tissue of a reference image data extracted from the image data, and a tracking process part measures a motion parameter on the basis of displacement information of the myocardial tissue at the interest points obtained by a tracking process between the reference image data and subsequent image data thereof. Meanwhile, a data creating unit creates parameter image data showing two-dimension distribution of the motion parameter or parameter time-series data showing a variation in time of the motion parameter as parameter data on the basis of the measurement result, and displays the parameter data.