Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image diagnosis apparatus and method
- Patent Title (中): 图像诊断装置及方法
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Application No.: US13891786Application Date: 2013-05-10
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Publication No.: US09433388B2Publication Date: 2016-09-06
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Noshi , Manabu Teshigawara , Satoru Nakanishi , Takuzo Takayama
- Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba , Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Otawara-shi
- Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corpoeration
- Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corpoeration
- Current Assignee Address: JP Otawara-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-253982 20101112
- Main IPC: A61B6/03
- IPC: A61B6/03 ; A61B6/04 ; A61B6/00 ; G01T1/161

Abstract:
According to the present embodiment, an image diagnosis apparatus includes a first image taking device that takes an image of a patient placed on a couchtop by using an X-ray emission; a second image taking device that takes images in positions by moving an image taking position of the patient by a predetermined distance at a time, along the body-axis direction; a position estimating unit; and a correction processing unit. The position estimating unit estimates a couchtop position for each of the image taking positions of the second image taking device, based on information about warping of the couchtop of the first image taking device. The correction processing unit uses information about the couchtop positions estimated by the position estimating unit, for performing a position correcting process on the images obtained by the image taking devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130251102A1 IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-09-26
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