X-ray diagnostic apparatus, X-ray diagnostic method and stent for X-ray diagnosis

• US 9,042,627 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2012
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohishi, Satoru, Chang, Yu-Bing
• Primary Examiner(s): CHANG, JON CARLTON
• Application Number:
  US13/599,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20130058556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/132
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/03 Computed tomography [CT] echo-tomography A61B8/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/12 Arrangements for detecting or locating foreign bodies
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/06 Blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/82 Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents stent-grafts for tubular structures of the body other than blood vessels A61F2/04; stent-grafts for blood vessels A61F2/07; instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts A61F2/95; for closing wounds, or holding wounds closed A61B17/04 - A61B17/115; dilators A61M29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0098 radio-opaque, e.g. radio-opaque markers

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes a data acquiring unit and a data processing unit. The data acquiring unit acquires X-ray projection data corresponding to plural directions from an object in which a stent having markers has been inserted by exposing X-rays to the object from the plural directions. The data processing unit obtains a spatial position corresponding to at least one marker out of the markers based on first three dimensional image data generated by first image reconstruction processing of the X-ray projection data to generate second three dimensional image data by second image reconstruction processing of the X-ray projection data with a correction using a shift amount obtained based on the X-ray projection data and projected data of the one marker on a projected plane of the X-ray projection data.

Claims

1. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus, comprising:

a data acquiring unit, including an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector, configured to acquire X-ray projection data from an object, in which a stent having markers has been inserted, using the X-ray detector by exposing X-rays to the object from plural directions by the X-ray tube, the X-ray projection data corresponding to the plural directions; and

a data processing circuit configured to obtain a spatial position corresponding to at least one marker out of the markers based on first three dimensional image data generated by first image reconstruction processing of the X-ray projection data in order to generate second three dimensional image data by second image reconstruction processing of the X-ray projection data, the second image reconstruction processing being performed with a correction using a shift amount obtained based on the X-ray projection data and projected data of the at least one marker on a projected plane of the X-ray projection data.

2. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to perform the second image reconstruction processing with the correction using a shift amount obtained based on the X-ray projection data and projected data of arbitrary plural markers on the projected plane.

3. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 2,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to use markers of which each distance from a marker adjacent in a projected position on the projected plane is not more than a threshold as the arbitrary plural markers.

4. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to perform the second image reconstruction processing with the correction using only a shift amount corresponding to the at least one marker out of the markers, the at least one marker being away from a marker adjacent in a projected position on the projected plane by a distance longer than a threshold.

5. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to perform error processing to detect an erroneous marker and to remove the detected erroneous marker detected based on the first three dimensional image data, the error processing being based on geometric information of the markers.

6. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 5,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to use at least one of a size, a shape, a distance from another marker, a distance from a center of a strut of the stent and a distance from a center of the first three dimensional image data of each marker as the geometric information of the markers.

7. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to obtain the spatial position of the at least one marker by threshold processing of the first three dimensional image data.

8. An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a position sensor configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted from a transmitter attached to the markers to detect a position of the transmitter or the markers,

wherein said data processing circuit is configured to obtain the spatial position of the at least one marker based on the position of the transmitter or the markers detected by said position sensor.

9. An X-ray diagnostic method, comprising:

acquiring X-ray projection data corresponding to plural directions from an object in which a stent having markers has been inserted by exposing X-rays to the object from the plural directions; and

obtaining a spatial position corresponding to at least one marker out of the markers based on first three dimensional image data generated by first image reconstruction processing of the X-ray projection data in order to generate second three dimensional image data by second image reconstruction processing of the X-ray projection data, the second image reconstruction processing being performed with a correction using a shift amount obtained based on the X-ray projection data and projected data of the at least one marker on a projected plane of the X-ray projection data.