X-ray imaging apparatus and medical image processing apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
InventorsMasahiro Kazama, Masakuni Fujise
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Abstract
An X-ray imaging apparatus including: an imaging unit which includes an X-ray tube that emits an X-ray to a subject and an X-ray detector that is so disposed as to face the X-ray tube; an input unit which inputs a plurality of imaging conditions including a tube current and a tube voltage of the X-ray tube, and sets an imaging protocol of the imaging unit; and an image creation unit which calculates an exposed dose when at least the tube voltage or the tube current is varied, and creates an index image that is made by overlapping an image showing the exposed dose on a two-dimensional map that is represented by the tube voltage and the tube current.
Claims9
An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising:
- an imaging unit which includes an X-ray tube that emits an X-ray to a subject and an X-ray detector that is so disposed as to face the X-ray tube;
- an input unit which inputs a plurality of imaging conditions including a tube current and tube voltage of the X-ray tube, and sets an imaging protocol of the imaging unit;
- an image creation unit which calculates an exposed dose when at least the tube voltage or the tube current is varied, and creates an index image that is made by overlapping an image showing the exposed dose depending on a setting values of the tube current and tube voltage on a two-dimensional map that is represented by the tube voltage and the tube current;
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- a display unit which displays the index image created by the image creation unit.
A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of imaging conditions including a tube current and tube voltage of an X-ray tube, on the basis of an imaging protocol that is set in an imaging unit including the X-ray tube that emits an X-ray and an X-ray detector that is so disposed as to face the X-ray tube;
- an image creation unit which calculates an exposed dose when at least the tube voltage or the tube current is varied, and creates an index image that is made by overlapping an image showing the exposed dose depending on a setting values of the tube current and tube voltage on a two-dimensional map that is represented by the tube voltage and the tube current;
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- a display unit which displays the index image created by the image creation unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.