Medical image generation apparatus, medical image storage apparatus, medical image display apparatus, and medical image display system
View Patent ↗A medical image generation apparatus including: a 4D image data generation unit generating 4D image data composed of a plurality of 3D image data blocks each having information indicating a number in chronological order of the 3D image data blocks using image information acquired by taking images of an object; and an image generation unit generating movie data composed of a plurality of 2D image data blocks generated from the plurality of 3D image data blocks constituting the four-dimensional image data and generating relevant information associating each of the two-dimensional image data blocks constituting the movie data with one of the 3D image data blocks which is the source of the 2D image data block.
1. A medical image display system, comprising:
a medical image generation apparatus, including:
a four-dimensional image data generation circuit generating four-dimensional image data composed of a plurality of three-dimensional image data blocks each having information indicating a number in chronological order of the three-dimensional image data blocks by using image information acquired by taking images of an object;
a memory storing the four-dimensional image data generated by the four-dimensional image data generation unit; and
an image generation circuit generating movie data composed of a plurality of two-dimensional image data blocks generated from the plurality of three-dimensional image data blocks constituting the four-dimensional image data stored in the memory, and generating relevant information associating each of the two-dimensional image data blocks constituting the movie data with one of the three-dimensional image data blocks which is a source of the blocks of two-dimensional image data; and
a medical image display apparatus connected to the four-dimensional image data generation circuit, the memory, and the image generation circuit through a network, and displaying the two-dimensional image data blocks and the three-dimensional image data blocks,
wherein when one of the two-dimensional image data blocks is identified in the movie data at the medical image display apparatus, the three-dimensional image data block corresponding to the identified two-dimensional image data block is read based on the relevant information through the network, and the read three-dimensional image data block is displayed on the medical image display apparatus.
2. The medical image display system according to claim 1 , wherein the relevant information is stored as attendant information of the two-dimensional image data.
3. The medical image display system according to claim 1 , wherein the relevant information is stored in an object file associated with each block of two-dimensional image data.
4. A medical image display system, comprising:
a medical image generation apparatus including
a four-dimensional image data generation circuit generating four-dimensional image data composed of a plurality of three-dimensional image data blocks each having a number in chronological order of the three-dimensional image data blocks using image information acquired by taking images of an object;
an image generation circuit generating movie data composed of a plurality of two-dimensional image data blocks generated from the three-dimensional image data blocks constituting the four-dimensional image data and generating relevant information associating each of the two-dimensional image data blocks with one of the three dimensional image data blocks which is a source of the two-dimensional image data blocks; and
a medical image display apparatus connected to the four-dimensional image data generation circuit and the image generation circuit through a network, and displaying the two-dimensional image data blocks and the three-dimensional image data blocks,
wherein when one of the two-dimensional image data blocks is identified on the movie data, the three-dimensional image data block corresponding to the identified two-dimensional image data block is read based on the relevant information through the network, and the read three-dimensional block is displayed on the medical image display apparatus.