Patent ID: 8825135

Claim:
A radiographic image capturing system comprising: a bioptic needle to be inserted into an object to be examined for sampling a tissue from a bioptic region of the object through an opening of the bioptic needle; a display configured to display stereoscopic images acquired by applying a radiation to the object while the bioptic needle is being inserted in the object; a console connected to the display; and a pointing device indicating at least a first indicating signal displayed on the display indicating a feature point of the bioptic needle in each of the stereoscopic images displayed on the display and a second indication signal displayed on the display indicating the bioptic region in each of the stereoscopic images displayed on the display unit, said first and second indicating signals being input by a user; wherein the console includes: a bioptic needle position calculator configured to calculate a three-dimensional coordinate position of the feature point of the bioptic needle, based on the first indication signal; a bioptic region position calculator configured to calculate a three-dimensional coordinate position of the bioptic region, based on the second indication signal; a direction processor configured to calculate a direction of the three-dimensional coordinate position of the bioptic region with respect to the three-dimensional coordinate position of the feature point of the bioptic needle, based on the three-dimensional coordinate position of the feature point of the bioptic needle calculated by the bioptic needle position calculator and the three-dimensional coordinate position of the bioptic region calculated by the bioptic region position calculator; and an output device comprising at least one of an audible device and the display, configured to announce the direction calculated by the direction calculator.