Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US12490316Application Date: 2009-06-24
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Publication No.: US08235527B2Publication Date: 2012-08-07
- Inventor: Hiroki Uchida
- Applicant: Hiroki Uchida
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2008-167062 20080626
- Main IPC: A61B3/14
- IPC: A61B3/14 ; A61B3/00

Abstract:
A medical imaging apparatus capable of concurrently performing a plurality of imaging operations including an imaging sequence setting unit configured to set a sequence for each of the plurality of imaging operations, an overlapping determination unit configured to determine temporal overlapping between an imaging sequence of an imaging operation that is currently performed and an imaging sequence for an imaging operation that is to be started, and an imaging sequence adjustment unit configured to adjust, based on a result of determination made by the overlapping determination unit, the imaging sequence for the imaging operation that is to be started.
Public/Granted literature
- US08292431B2 Medical imaging apparatus Public/Granted day:2012-10-23
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