Patent ID: 8306606

Claim:
A medical imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging-data collecting unit that collects imaging data by imaging a subject to whom a contrast medium is injected; a first image creating unit that creates a first image on which an artery blood flow is highlighted, based on imaging data in an artery phase from which artery blood-flow dynamic states can be observed; a second image creating unit that creates a second image on which a tumor is highlighted, based on imaging data in a late phase which is a time phase that appears after the artery phase from which presence of a tumor can be determined; an image compositing unit that creates a third image by combining the first image and the second image; and an image display unit that displays the third image composited by the image compositing unit; wherein the image compositing unit composites an image such that display of the first image changes in accordance with information on the second image, when compositing the third image; and wherein the image compositing unit composites an image such that display color of the first image changes in accordance with information on the second image.