IP Library Granted Patent US 9,888,892
Granted Patent B2
US 9,888,892 · App. 14/883,949 · Granted Feb 13, 2018

X-ray diagnostic imaging apparatus

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Patent No.
US 9,888,892
App. No.
14/883,949
Granted
Feb 13, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An X-ray diagnostic imaging apparatus according to this embodiment includes a display for displaying an image and a processing circuitry which calculates an incident dose on a body surface of an object, superposes information based on the calculated incident dose on a three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image relating to the object and is capable of rotating display at a corresponding position on the body surface of the object and causes the three-dimensional image on which the information is superposed to be displayed on the display.

Claims (58)

1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising:

a processing circuitry configured to:

calculate an incident dose on a body surface of an object,

superpose information based on the calculated incident dose, on three-dimensional original image data including an internal structure relating to the object so as to correspond to each position of the body surface of the object, thereby creating three-dimensional synthetic image data,

cause a synthetic image, based on the three-dimensional synthetic image data, to be displayed on a display,

receive an input operation to rotate the three-dimensional synthetic image data, and

cause a synthetic image, based on rotated three-dimensional synthetic image data, to be displayed on the display.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the three-dimensional original image data is medical image data obtained by imaging the object.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the three-dimensional original image data is medical image data including a blood vessel of the object as the internal structure.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to calculate a skin exposure dose of the object as the incident dose.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to create and display, while the three-dimensional synthetic image data is rotating, synthetic images which highlight the three-dimensional original image data, and to create and display, while the three-dimensional synthetic image data is not rotating, synthetic images which highlight the information based on the incident dose.

6. A medical image processing apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry configured to:

calculate an incident dose to an object,

superpose information, based on the calculated incident dose, on three-dimensional original image data including an internal structure relating to the object, and

cause a synthetic image, based on the three-dimensional synthetic image data, to be displayed on a display, wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to create and display, while the three-dimensional synthetic image data is rotating, synthetic images which highlight the three-dimensional original image data, and create and display, while the three-dimensional synthetic image data is not rotating, synthetic images which highlight the information based on the incident dose.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein

the three-dimensional original image data is medical image data obtained by imaging the object.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein

the three-dimensional original image data is medical image data including a blood vessel of the object as the internal structure.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to superpose information, based on the incident dose, on the three-dimensional original image data so as to correspond to each position of the body surface of the object, thereby creating the three-dimensional synthetic image data.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

create first three-dimensional data as the three-dimensional original image data,

create second three-dimensional data showing information based on the incident dose at a body surface position of a human body model showing the object, and

create the three-dimensional synthetic image data in which the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data are superposed.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to superpose the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data by horizontal-mirror-reversing dose values shown in the second three-dimensional data when the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data are to be superposed.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to superpose the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data by executing enlargement processing to the second three-dimensional data when the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data are to be superposed.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to further superpose an X-ray image data display region showing a range of irradiation of an X-ray to the object on the three-dimensional synthetic image data.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein

the processing circuitry is configured to cause mutually corresponding regions of the X-ray image data display region in the first three-dimensional data or the second-three-dimensional data to be displayed on the display.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

create one or a plurality of the three-dimensional synthetic image data at a predetermined angular interval in a range where the X-ray is irradiated to the object,

cause the one or a plurality of the synthetic images, based on the one or plurality of three-dimensional synthetic image data, to be displayed on the display, and

cause, when one synthetic image from the one or plurality of synthetic image data is selected, the selected synthetic image to be displayed on the display at an irradiation angle corresponding to the selected synthetic image.

16. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

create a dose map showing a maximum incident dose or an average incident dose in an X-ray image data display region showing a range of irradiation of the X-ray to the object on the basis of the incident dose in a range where the X-ray is irradiated to the object,

associate a three-dimensional image obtained by photographing the object with the dose map, and

cause the three-dimensional image corresponding to a position shown by the dose map or a position of the dose map corresponding to an irradiation angle of the three-dimensional image to be displayed.

17. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:

create an estimated dose map showing an estimated incident dose in an X-ray image data display region showing a range of irradiation of the X-ray to the object in a range where the X-ray is irradiated to the object,

associate a three-dimensional image obtained by photographing the object with the estimated dose map, and

cause the three-dimensional image corresponding to a position shown by the estimated dose map or a position of the estimated dose map corresponding to an irradiation angle of the three-dimensional image to be displayed.

18. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the three-dimensional original image data is medical image data including a blood vessel of the object as the internal structure.

19. An X-ray diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising:

an image generating apparatus configured to generate the three-dimensional original image data; and

the medical image processing apparatus according to claim 1 .

20. An X-ray diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising:

an image generating apparatus configured to generate the three-dimensional original image data; and

the medical image processing apparatus according to claim 6 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2016
From: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
To: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038926/0365 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2016
From: ABE, SHINGO; OHISHI, SATORU
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA; TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 037633/0204 →