Patent ID: 8306605

Claim:
A tomographic system comprising: a scanning unit that simultaneously obtains plural tomographic images at respective tomographic positions in an axial direction of a body of a subject; a display unit that displays the plural tomographic images thus obtained; a relative distance computing part that computes, for each of the plural tomographic images, a slice distance between a slice position of the tomographic image and a slice position of a centrally positioned tomographic image amongst the plural tomographic images; and a control unit that controls a display of the computed slice distances between the respective tomographic images and the centrally positioned tomographic image, wherein at least one of the plural tomographic images is anteriorly positioned, in the axial direction, relative to the centrally positioned tomographic image, and at least one of the plural tomographic images is posteriorly positioned, in the axial direction, relative to the centrally positioned tomographic image, and the display unit simultaneously displays the anteriorly positioned tomographic image, the posteriorly positioned tomographic image, and the centrally positioned tomographic image, along with the computed slice distances of the anteriorly positioned image and the posteriorly positioned image, respectively, to the centrally positioned tomographic image.