Patent ID: 8494242

Claim:
A medical image management apparatus for managing images of a subject that has been imaged by a medical image imaging apparatus, the medical image management apparatus comprising: a first recording means that records each region of the subject which is a target of imaging by the medical image apparatus, correlated with a direction for reconstruction; an information obtainment means that obtains information representing a region of the subject represented in a three-dimensional image constructed based on a plurality of slice images that have been captured by the medical image imaging apparatus, the plurality of slice images being adjacent to each other in a predetermined direction; a reconstruction means that reconstructs the plurality of slice images which are adjacent in the predetermined direction, into a plurality of slice images which are adjacent in a direction correlated with the region of the subject represented by the information obtained by the information obtainment means in the first recording means prior to a request for distribution of the three dimensional image being received from an external terminal; a second recording means that records the plurality of slice images reconstructed by the reconstruction means; and a distribution control means that sequentially distributes, in response to a distribution request for the three-dimensional image input from an external terminal, the plurality of reconstructed slice images from the recording means to the external terminal.