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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2009
Takashi Shirahata, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Shirahata, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical image display device provided with storage means for storing a sliced image of an object to be examined obtained by a medical image diagnostic apparatus, extraction means for extracting a center line passing through the region of a hollow organ of the object and the center thereof from the sliced image stored by the storage means, and 3-dimensional image generation means for generating a virtual 3-dimensional image of the inner wall of the hollow organ seen from a viewpoint while sequentially moving the viewpoint from one end to the other end of the center line is provided, with means for changing the direction in which the virtual 3-dimensional image seen from the viewpoint is generated to the direction of bending curvature of the hollow organ according to the bending curvature thereof.