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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2005
Masa Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Naoko Ajiki, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Nakazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Previously captured three-dimensional image data of a subject from which a reference image is extracted are provided in the form of time-series volume datacomposed of two-dimensional image data groups which are recorded over at least one period of a periodically moving organ of the subject, with time-phase information of a biological signal of the subject added thereto. Two-dimensional image data whose time-phase information is identical with the time-phase information of the biological signal of the subject at the time when an ultrasonic image is captured are extracted from the three-dimensional image data so as to provide the reference image.