Patent ID: 8447082

Claim:
A medical image display apparatus comprises: a means for selectively inputting a desired medical image from among medical images taken by a medical-image radiography system; a deployed image creating means for reading the selectively inputted medical image from the medical-image radiography system or an external storage device, and producing a deployed image of a region of a luminal organ contained in the read medical image; and a control means for controlling display of the created deployed image on a display means, wherein the control means includes a correcting means for calculating a magnitude of a variance between radial information, which contracts or expands to a predetermined value in the region of the luminal organ, and radial information on a nearby position, and correcting a distortion of the deployed image, which is created by the deployed image creating means, on the basis of the calculated magnitude of the variance between the pieces of radial information, and wherein the correcting means obtains a sampling pitch in the circumferential direction of the deployed image on the basis of the radical information and makes a sampling pitch in the axial direction of the deployed image the same as the sampling pitch in the circumferential direction.