Inventors:
Yoshihiro Ikeda - Nasu-gun, JP
Kieran Murphy - Baltimore MD, US
Miwa Okumura - Kuroiso-shi, JP
Yasuko Fujisawa - Otawara-shi, JP
Yuusuke Toki - Tokyo, JP
Yasuhiro Noshi - Nasu-gun, JP
International Classification:
A61B005/05
US Classification:
600425000, 128920000, 378004000
Abstract:
A cerebral ischemia diagnosis assisting apparatus comprises a storing portion for storing multi-slices or volume data with regard to the head portion of a subject, an image generating portion for generating a tomography image of a brain from the multi-slices or the volume data, an image processing portion for processing the tomography image for generating a contrast highlighting image and a brain sulci highlighting image or either thereof, and a display portion for displaying the tomography image along with the contrast highlighting image and the brain sulci highlighting image.