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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Takao Goto, Hino, JP;
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An MR apparatuscomprising an image producing unitfor producing axial images Dthrough D; a binarizing unitfor executing binarization processing for binarizing the axial images; a separating unitfor executing separation processing for separating a left-arm region HL and a right-arm region HR from a torso region HB; an extracting unitfor executing extraction processing for extracting the torso region HB from the images obtained by the separating unit; and a unit for locating a centerline of a body of a subject by executing first removal processing on an extracted region HEextracted by the extraction processing, and locating a centerline of the body of the subject based on the first-removal-processed extracted region.