Patent ID: 7137958

Claim:
A human spinal column measuring and displaying system comprising: a probe provided at a front end of a scanning arm movable in a longitudinal X-axis direction, a width Y-axis direction and a thickness Z-axis direction of the spinal column of a measured subject and pinched between the second finger and the third finger of a measuring person for detecting detaching amounts from reference positions in the X, the Y and the Z axes-directions by three-dimensionally moving front ends of the fingers from a position of the first cervical vertebra or a position of the first thoracic vertebra to a position of the fifth lumbar vertebra of the spinal column of the measured subject; converted data storing means for storing respective values of measured data in the X-axis direction, the Y-axis direction and the Z-axis direction of the detaching amounts detected by the probe; an input apparatus for inputting a gender and a height of the measured subject; a readable medium comprising basic diagram data stored with an average size and a basic shape of each of the vertebrae constituting the spinal column of the human body by the gender and the height of the measured subject; a readable medium comprising a table of the vertebrae for selecting each of the vertebrae in correspondence with the gender and the height from the basic diagram data in accordance with the gender and the height of the measured subject inputted by the input apparatus; synthesizing means for generating an image of a total of the spinal column constituting a basic image based on a size and a shape of each of the vertebrae selected by using the table of the vertebrae; and image data generating means for generating a three-dimensional image of the spinal column of the measured subject at positions of coordinates in the X direction, the Y direction and the Z direction of each of the vertebrae on the basic image of the spinal column generated by the synthesizing means based on the measured data stored to the converted data storing means to display the three-dimensional image of the spinal column on a display screen.