Patent ID: 9149243
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: A61B,G01R,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical image diagnosis apparatus comprising; a volume data generator including an image data memory configured to store image data sequentially acquired from a therapy target organ through an image acquisition device, a high speed arithmetic processor configured to generate 3D data based on the image data read out from the image data memory and an interpolation processor configured to generate volume data in time series based on the 3D data; a vascular region detector implemented by circuitry configured to detect vascular regions in the therapy target organ using volume data of vascular enhanced phases selected by processing circuitry from among the volume data generated in time series, the vascular enhanced phases corresponding to timings of brightness changes; a tumor candidate region detector implemented by circuitry configured to detect tumor candidate regions in the therapy target organ using volume data of tumor enhanced phases selected by the processing circuitry from among the volume data generated in time series, the tumor enhanced phases corresponding to timings of brightness changes; tumor position data measuring circuitry configured to detect each gravity center of the tumor candidate regions; an adjacent vascular detector implemented by circuitry configured to an image data generator implemented by circuitry configured to generate therapy assisting image data based on narrow scope volume data including the tumor candidate regions and the adjacent vascular regions extracted from the volume data.