Image capturing system for medical use, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8054940
APP PUB NO 20090296884A1
SERIAL NO

12474470

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The present invention provides a technique capable of objectively discriminating the constituent of a subject also in an image in which density difference is not easily discriminated on a gray image obtained by image capturing for medical use using X-rays. An image capturing system for medical use includes: a detecting unit for detecting an X-ray dose by absorbing X-rays passed through a subject in image capturing for medical use and outputting absorbed X-ray dose information; an obtaining unit for obtaining image information of the subject from the absorbed X-ray dose information; an image processing unit for calculating average detection energy in each first predetermined region in the image information; and an output unit for outputting the average detection energy.

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KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC INCTOKYO
INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY701-2 HIGASHIASAKAWA-MACHI HACHIOJI-SHI TOKYO 193-0834

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Honda, Michitaka Takamatsu, JP 28 466
Toyama, Osamu Hino, JP 54 632

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