X-ray imaging apparatus
AssigneeShimadzu Corporation
InventorTakuma Niizaka
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Abstract
In an X-ray imaging apparatus, an image processor is configured to generate a super-resolved image having higher resolution in an X direction than a first fluoroscopic X-ray image and a second fluoroscopic X-ray image by dividing, in the X direction, a pixel value of a first pixel in the first fluoroscopic X-ray image based on pixel values of two pixels in the second fluoroscopic X-ray image that overlap the first pixel when the first fluoroscopic X-ray image and the second fluoroscopic X-ray image are shifted in the X direction by an amount corresponding to a movement amount (of an X-ray detection position) and displayed in an overlapping manner.
Claims8
An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising:
- an X-ray source;
- a detector configured to detect X-rays radiated from the X-ray source at a first position and a second position translated in a first direction by a movement amount smaller than a pixel size of the detector from the first position;
- an image processor configured to generate a first image based on the X-rays detected at the first position, the image processor being configured to generate a second image based on the X-rays detected at the second position;
- and
- a moving mechanism configured to move an X-ray detection position of the detector between the first position and the second position;
- wherein
- the image processor is configured to generate a super-resolved image having higher resolution in the first direction than the first image and the second image based on a divided image that has undergone a division process in the first direction to divide, in the first direction, a pixel value of a first pixel in one of the first image and the second image based on pixel values of two pixels in the other of the first image and the second image that overlap the first pixel when the first image and the second image are shifted in the first direction by an amount corresponding to the movement amount and displayed in an overlapping manner.
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