Medical imaging apparatus and medical display image generation method
AssigneeToshiba Medical Systems Corporation
InventorSatoshi SUGIURA
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Abstract
A medical imaging apparatus includes a positioning image acquisition unit which acquires a positioning image concerning a subject, a unit which sets an region of interest in the positioning image in accordance with specification performed by an operator, a monitoring image acquisition unit which repeatedly acquires a monitoring image concerning the subject at predetermined time intervals, and a generation unit which combines an region-of-interest image representing the region of interest with the monitoring image to generate a display image every time the monitoring image is acquired.
Claims7
A medical imaging apparatus comprising:
- a positioning image acquisition unit which acquires a positioning image concerning a subject;
- a unit which sets an region of interest in the positioning image in accordance with specification performed by an operator;
- a monitoring image acquisition unit which repeatedly acquires a monitoring image concerning the subject at predetermined time intervals;
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- a generation unit which combines an region-of-interest image representing the region of interest with the monitoring image to generate a display image every time the monitoring image is acquired.
A medical display image generation method comprising:
- acquiring a positioning image concerning a subject;
- setting an region of interest in the positioning image in accordance with specification made by an operator;
- repeatedly acquiring a monitoring image concerning the subject at predetermined time intervals;
- combining an region-of-interest image showing the region of interest with the monitoring image to display a display image every time the monitoring image is acquired.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.