Patent ID: 9070212
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A medical imaging apparatus comprising: a standard imaging slice database in which a standard imaging slice is stored so as to match a standard image for each imaging part; display means configured to display the standard image and the standard imaging slice; operation receiving means configured to receive an instruction to change the standard imaging slice displayed on the display means; standard imaging slice update means configured to update the standard imaging slice in the standard imaging slice database according to the received change instruction; imaging slice determination means configured to determine, whenever a positioning image is acquired for positioning, an inmaging slice on the positioning image, which is equivalent to the standard imaging slice, from a shape relationship between the positioning image and the standard image, wherein the display means displays the positioning image and the imaging slice, the operation receiving means further receives a change of an imaging slice on the positioning image displayed on the display means, and when a change amount by the change on the positioning image is within a predetermined range, the standard imaging slice update means reflects the change on the positioning image in the standard imaging slice in the standard imaging slice database; and determination means configured to receive an instruction regarding whether to reflect the received change in the standard imaging slice database, wherein the operation receiving means further receives a change of an imaging slice on the positioning image, and the standard imaging slice update means reflects the change on the positioning image in the standard imaging slice in the standard imaging slice database when the determination means receives an instruction to reflect the received change.