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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2011
Eiji Kasahara, Mitaka, JP;
Eiji Kasahara, Mitaka, JP;
Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd., Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A position information attaching unit () attaches, to each set of tomographic image data acquired from each scanning plane, position data for identifying a position of the tomographic image data within a three-dimensional region. A pre-memory () stores a plurality of sets of tomographic image data in a time-series order. A reconfiguration processing unit () uses the respective base images as division units to divide the plurality of sets of tomographic image data stored in the pre-memory () into a plurality of image groups. Then, data of a plurality of tomographic images which correspond to one another on a periodic basis are sequentially extracted from the respective image groups, and are stored in a post-memory () as one data block. A three-dimensional image-forming unit () forms a display image based on the plurality of sets of tomographic image data after reconfiguration stored in the post-memory () and while correlating each set of tomographic image data to a position within a display region identified by respective position data.