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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175364 | Medical image display device and program that generates marker and changes shape of region of interest to contact marker A medical image display device is configured to set first reference information for starting extraction of a desired region on a medical image displayed on a display and second reference information for terminating the region extraction, generate a marker with finit... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175217 | X-ray CT apparatus An X-ray CT apparatus is provided with an X-ray tube current modulation pattern calculation means that calculates an X-ray tube current modulation pattern based on a 3-dimensional model of an object calculated based on a scanogram image of the object, start-up shape... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174263 | Magnetic resonance imaging with unnecessary material suppression using multiple RF pulses A magnetic resonance imaging device includes a predetermined pulse sequence, the predetermined pulse sequence including an unnecessary material suppressing sequence unit for canceling a signal from an unnecessary material which is not a measurement target and a main... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167806 | Ultrasonograph An ultrasonograph capable of generating a transmission beam having a uniform width over a wide range in an ultrasonic wave propagation direction is provided. A weighted mean value of a plurality of transmission delay time values corresponding to focal lengths of tra... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167802 | Biological tissue motion trace method and image diagnosis device using the trace method A one frame image of a moving image formed by producing tomographic images of an object to be examined is displayed (S2), a mark is superposed on a designated portion of a tissue the movement of which is tracked in the displayed one frame image (S3), a... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658762 | Surgical X-ray apparatus | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160667 | Biological light measuring apparatus and method An optical fiber setting adequacy evaluation unit is disclosed for evaluating a setting adequacy on a body surface in an inspection area of irradiation use optical fibers. The evaluation unit can also be used for setting the accuracy of light receiving use optical f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160315 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and projection image generating method A three-dimensional ultrasonic image with which the positional relationship between tissues can be surely grasped is generated. Accordingly, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a projection image generating method according to the present invention acquire first thr... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657875 | Mobile x-ray apparatus | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154294 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method for correcting error due to gradient magnetic field In a non-cartesian sampling method, in order to reduce an artifact on an image caused by an error of a gradient magnetic field, data for correcting the error caused by the gradient magnetic field are obtained when data used for image reconstruction are obtained, and... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148980 | Magnetic resonance imaging system and method A magnetic resonance imaging system is characterized in that a control unit executes, as pulse sequences, a first sequence for obtaining data of a predetermined 2-dimensional region in a k-space and a second sequence for obtaining data required for reconstruction of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139829 | Diagnostic imaging support system and diagnostic imaging support program A diagnostic imaging support system includes input means (15) for setting a characteristic quantity for performing a predetermined threshold processing for a bone region in an image of a subject; control means (10) for reading out the image from storag... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134367 | Irradiating coil and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus using the same An irradiating coil includes a first ring conductor located on a plane, a second ring conductor having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the first ring conductor and located substantially on the plane of the first ring conductor, a plurality of first line conduc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132462 | Ultrasonographic device The receive sensitivity of an ultrasound array transducer structured with a diaphragm electro-acoustic transducer (101) being a basic unit is affected by change in a charge amount with elapsed time due to leakage or the like, which causes drift of the primary... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8118746 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for recognition helpful to diagnosis by giving and displaying a score serving as an index of diagnosis. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises a displacement measuring section (109) for measuring the displacemen... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107701 | Medical image display system and medical image display program A medical image display apparatus of the present invention is used in a medical image display system having a function of preparing three-dimensional image data on a subject including a plurality of luminal organs and displaying the prepared three-dimensional image ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098921 | Elastic image display method and elastic image display device According to a 2-dimensional map having longitudinal and horizontal axes indicating different elastic information, hue or luminance of each pixel is mapped correspondingly to their elastic information, and the elastic information is combined to construct one elastic... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094899 | Medical image diagnostic device A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus is provided that is capable of accurately tracking motions of a moving organ that moves periodically over a plurality of periods. The medical diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a matching computation unit for performing a ma... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083679 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus An ultrasonic image capturing apparatus is disclosed for transmitting ultrasonic pulses from an ultrasonic probe in which elements are arranged two-dimensionally to a subject, receiving the ultrasonic pulses reflected by the subject, and displaying a slice image of ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079956 | Ultrasonographic device and ultrasonographic method In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an improvement in spatial resolution, and an amount of displacement between th... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8055045 | Method and system for collecting image data from image data collection range including periodically moving part A method includes a periodic motion data input step S208 of receiving input of periodic motion data indicating changes of the periodic motion with time in an object to be examined who is a target of image data collection, a step S214 of estimating fluc... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055036 | Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic image display method An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus preferable for creating a sharper image from the signal originating from contrast medium and the signal originating from biological tissues and an ultrasonic image display method are provided. The ultrasonic diagnostic appar... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052325 | X-ray fluoroscope table and X-ray fluoroscope system An X-ray fluoroscope table and an X-ray fluoroscope system using this fluoroscope table with simple structure and easily ensuring an area where a person stands near the top board. An X-ray fluoroscope table (1) comprises a stand unit (10), a sup... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047989 | Medical imaging diagnosis apparatus and medical imaging diagnosis method A medical imaging diagnosis apparatus for measuring the composite thickness of the tunica intima and the tunica media of a blood vessel of a subject by acquiring image data on the blood vessel. In order to improve the accuracy of the IMT measurement of the composite... | 11/01/2011 |
| D648028 | Surgical X-ray apparatus | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043220 | Ultrasonograph An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, a transmission unit for transmitting an ultrasound signal to an object to be examined via the ultrasound probe, a reception unit for processing a signal received by the ultrasound probe, and an image g... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043216 | Method of displaying elastic image and diagnostic ultrasound system To carry out objective or definitive diagnosis on the basis of an elastic image regardless of experience and proficiency, a method of displaying an elastic image includes the steps of measuring ultrasound cross-section data of a cross-section region of a subject by ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041415 | Ultrasonic diagnosis system and strain distribution display method An ultrasonic diagnosis system and strain distribution display method utilizing an ultrasonic probe for performing transmission/reception of ultrasonic signals to/from a subject, a storage arrangement for storing the properties of signals detected with the ultrasoni... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040519 | Biological optical measurement apparatus A biological optical measurement apparatus including an applied unit having plural light irradiating probes for irradiating an object with light and plural light detecting probes for detecting light returning from the object, and worn by the object, a measuring unit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040134 | Magnetic resonance imaging device configured to suppress signals from fat by excluding effect of non-uniformity of irradiated magnetic field A magnetic resonance imaging device includes control means for controlling receiving means according to a predetermined pulse sequence that includes an unnecessary material suppressing sequence unit for suppressing a signal from an unnecessary material which is not ... | 10/18/2011 |
| D647102 | Graphical user interface for a computer monitor of an X-ray tomography scanner | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035383 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and RF coil for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus This invention provides a receiving coil that allows a high-quality image of high depth sensitivity to be obtained during vertical magnetic field MRI without limiting selection of a cross section to be imaged and of a phase-encoding axis. A subject's field of view i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032202 | Function image display method and device There are provided a function image display method and device capable of performing analysis of biological function information by acquiring from a single image, information obtained from a tomogram and information obtained from a plurality of function images withou... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032201 | Magnetic resonance imaging device The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a control unit for controlling a pulse sequence that applies an RF magnetic field and a magnetic field gradient to a subject placed in a static magnetic field and detects a magnetic resonance signal generated from th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027713 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus having control unit for fetching a plurality of image data and obtaining an image by a calculation. The control unit performs an unwrap processing to a plurality of regions for removing a main value of a phase rotation amount s... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027524 | Image diagnosis support apparatus and image diagnosis support program An image diagnosis support apparatus according to the invention comprises an adipose distribution data computing device which figures out adipose distribution data measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image; an abnormal shadow candidate ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019399 | Optical measurement apparatus for living body A principal component analysis or an independent component analysis is conducted on the living body signals, e.g., local cerebral blood amount change signals obtained by the living body optical measurement to extract and display multiple component signals thereof. S... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8007438 | Ultrasound probe and ultrasound elasticity imaging apparatus An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe which transmits/receives an ultrasound wave with respect to a subject to be diagnosed, an ultrasound wave transmit section which transmits an ultrasound wave for driving the ultrasound probe, a pressing... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002703 | Ultrasonic imaging device This invention provides an ultrasonic imaging system that implements imaging by distinguishing sharply and definitely the echo components generated by scattering in a microbubble contrast medium, from the tissue harmonic components generated by nonlinear propagation... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002702 | Ultrasonograph and method for controlling movement of display body of ultrasonograph The operability of setting movement of a Doppler sample gate for setting a Doppler measurement portion on a sectoral or circular ultrasonogram is improved. An ultrasonograph is provided with calculation means (25) for determining the position where a Doppler ... | 08/23/2011 |
