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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2010
Takuya Sakaguchi, Shioya-gun, JP;
Hisato Takemoto, Nasushiobara, JP;
Joao A. C. Lima, Baltimore, MD (US);
Richard T. George, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jeff Trost, Baltimore, MD (US);
Takuya Sakaguchi, Shioya-gun, JP;
Hisato Takemoto, Nasushiobara, JP;
Joao A. C. Lima, Baltimore, MD (US);
Richard T. George, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jeff Trost, Baltimore, MD (US);
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a difference image generating unit and a display controlling unit. The difference image generating unit generates a difference image by calculating a difference in a second X-ray transmission image from a first X-ray transmission image, the second X-ray transmission image being an image in which a myocardial tissue of an examined subject is not opacified and the first X-ray transmission image being an image in which the myocardial tissue of the examined subject is opacified with a contrast agent that has been injected into a coronary artery. The display controlling unit exercises control so that a predetermined display unit displays the difference image that has been generated by the difference image generating unit.