Invention Grant
- Patent Title: X-ray CT apparatus
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Application No.: US15685100Application Date: 2017-08-24
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Publication No.: US10881373B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Tomoyuki Netabayashi , Hirotaka Ujiie , Kazuki Gatayama , Atsushi Fukano
- Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Otawara
- Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Otawara
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2016-178235 20160913
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B6/03 ; A61B6/06

Abstract:
In one embodiment, An X-ray CT apparatus includes: a rotating body and processing circuitry configured to extract an anatomical landmark from a medical image of an object acquired by a first scan, identify a shape of an anatomical site of the object based on the anatomical landmark, and set scanning conditions of a second scan based on the shape of the anatomical site, the second scan including a tilt scan in which a scan is performed under a condition where the rotating body is tilted, the scanning conditions including at least a tilt angle of the tilt scan.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180070908A1 X-RAY CT APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-03-15
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