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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2016
Rigaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
RIGAKU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To make a user easily obtain an objective and stable analysis result of bone mineral density. An analyzerof bone mineral density using CT image data of a phantom having a known bone mineral density includes: a known data storage partthat stores known data of bone mineral density for a phantom; a histogram production partthat produces a histogram of region number relative to a CT value for three-dimensional CT image data of the phantom; a correspondence determination partthat determines correspondence between a CT value and a bone mineral density by correlating CT values showing respective peaks of the produced histogram with the known data of the phantom; and an analysis partthat decides a bone mineral density for three-dimensional CT image data of a subject using the determined correspondence.