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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2010
Seiji Matsuba, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsutaro Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Kunihiko Kasahara, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Matsuda, Iruma-gun, JP;
Seiji Matsuba, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsutaro Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Kunihiko Kasahara, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Matsuda, Iruma-gun, JP;
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When brain images are inputted through MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and subjected to image processing to assist the diagnosis of brain diseases, functional and morphological images in an ASL coordinate system are inputted from the head of a subject by an ASL (Arterial Spin Labeling) imaging method using an MRI device. The inputted functional images are subjected to mask processing to extract only the region of cerebral parenchyma, and functional images of only the extracted region of the cerebral parenchyma are thereby produced and displayed to be overlaid on the morphological images. In this manner, a functional image such as a perfusion weighted image of only the region of the cerebral parenchyma can be extracted and displayed overlaid on a morphological image.