	US 12,112,407 B2
	Image generating apparatus, image generating method and storage medium
Kensuke Shinoda, Otawara (JP); and Hideaki Kutsuna, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/329,766.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-115873 (JP), filed on Jul. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0005240 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G06T 5/94 (2024.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)

CPC G06T 11/006 (2013.01) [A61B 5/004 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G06T 5/94 (2024.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 2576/02 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. An image generating apparatus, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

successively generate, during a time period in which acquiring of magnetic resonance data corresponding to magnetic resonance signals emitted from a subject is being performed, a plurality of Magnetic Resonance (MR) images corresponding to different temporal phases, by a first reconstruction method, using the magnetic resonance data acquired in the time period;

determine, during the time period, a temporal phase in the time period, based on the MR images generated by the first reconstruction method, the temporal phase corresponding to an MR image to be generated by a second reconstruction method having a larger processing load than the first reconstruction method; and

generate, during the time period, the MR image corresponding to the determined temporal phase, by the second reconstruction method.