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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2010
Shogo Azemoto, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuaki Goko, Tokyo, JP;
Masakatsu Hoashi, Tokyo, JP;
AZE Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a medical image data alignment apparatus, method and program capable of aligning different kinds of image data on a tissue to be objected at high precision and in a short time. According to the present invention, a patient SPECT and a patient CT are aligned via atlas data. The atlas data is a standard of SPECT image data, and is created based on SPECT image data of a plurality of patients. The patient SPECT and the atlas data are aligned based on the correlation of image signal values thereof, and a first transformation matrix Tis determined. The atlas data and the patient CT are aligned based on the coordinate information added to these data in advance, and a second transformation matrix Tis determined. The patient SPECT and the patient CT are aligned using the first transformation matrix Tand the second transformation matrix T.