Patent ID: 9597051
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. An X-ray computed tomography imaging apparatus comprising: an X-ray generation unit configured to generate X-rays; an X-ray detection unit configured to detect X-rays which have been generated from the X-ray generation unit and have passed through a subject; an imaging condition setting unit configured to set imaging conditions for a pre-contrast enhancement scan, a monitoring scan, and a post-contrast enhancement scan; a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set a region of interest for the monitoring scan in a reference image generated by a reference image scan executed before the pre-contrast enhancement scan, the monitoring scan, and the post-contrast enhancement scan; and a scan control unit configured to control the X-ray generation unit and the X-ray detection unit based on the imaging conditions to sequentially execute the pre-contrast enhancement scan, the monitoring scan, and the post-contrast enhancement scan.