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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Nobuhiro Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Kishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Kihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takamichi Yamakoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiyasu Suzuki, Saitama, JP;
Ryu Narusawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuhiro Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Kishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Kihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takamichi Yamakoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiyasu Suzuki, Saitama, JP;
Ryu Narusawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tissue-slice image acquirement and display apparatus includes: an entire-image acquirer that acquires a bright-field image of an entirety of a first slice of a tissue and a dark-field image of an entirety of a second slice of the tissue; a modifier that modifies a profile shape of a slice portion in the dark-field image on the basis of a profile shape of a slice portion in the bright-field image; a magnified-image acquirer that determines a range encompassing the second slice on the basis of the profile shape of the modified slice portion and that acquires, in a dark field, a magnified image of the second slice in the determined range; and a display controller that causes the bright-field image to be displayed and that causes a portion of the magnified image, the portion corresponding to a position selected in the bright-field image, to be displayed.