Patent ID: 9295450
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. An imaging apparatus in which by moving a transmitting and receiving unit, which carries out signal transmission and reception continuously, in a longitudinal direction inside a body cavity while also rotating the transmitting and receiving unit, a reflection signal is obtained from the inside of the body cavity, and based on the obtained reflection signal, cross-sectional images of the inside of the body cavity are generated in the longitudinal direction, the imaging apparatus comprising: a holding unit for holding a plurality of X-ray images obtained by X-ray imaging of the transmitting and receiving unit inside the body cavity in an imaging cycle defined beforehand; a first generation unit for generating a cross-sectional moving image by using the cross-sectional image generated for every rotation cycle of the transmitting and receiving unit by setting the rotation cycle of the transmitting and receiving unit as a frame rate; a second generation unit for reading out an X-ray image obtained by an X-ray imaging just previously from the holding unit at every timing for every rotation cycle of the transmitting and receiving unit and for generating an X-ray moving image by setting the rotation cycle of the transmitting and receiving unit as the frame rate by using the read out X-ray image; and a display for displaying the cross-sectional moving image and the X-ray moving image at the frame rate.