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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2009
Applicant:
Satoshi Sugiura, Otawara, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Sugiura, Otawara, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/0037 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01); G01R 33/5601 (2013.01); G01R 33/5613 (2013.01); G01R 33/5635 (2013.01); A61B 5/7285 (2013.01); A61B 6/541 (2013.01); G01R 33/543 (2013.01); G01R 33/5605 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical imaging apparatus includes a positioning image acquisition unit which acquires a positioning image concerning a subject, a unit which sets an region of interest in the positioning image in accordance with specification performed by an operator, a monitoring image acquisition unit which repeatedly acquires a monitoring image concerning the subject at predetermined time intervals, and a generation unit which combines an region-of-interest image representing the region of interest with the monitoring image to generate a display image every time the monitoring image is acquired.