Abstract: A diagnostic assistance device is a diagnostic assistance device configured to generate three-dimensional data of a biological tissue inserted with a catheter based on tomographic data of the biological tissue, and display the generated three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image on a display. The diagnostic assistance device includes: a control unit configured to specify a point of the biological tissue with which a distal end of the catheter is in contact as a contact point in the three-dimensional data, and set a color of a voxel corresponding to the contact point to a predetermined color in the three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A diagnostic assistance device generates a three-dimensional image of a moving range of an ultrasound transducer from a two-dimensional image generated using the ultrasound transducer. The ultrasound transducer transmits ultrasound while moving inside a biological tissue through which blood passes. The diagnostic assistance device includes: a control unit that determines an upper limit of a third pixel number, the third pixel number being a pixel number in a third direction of the three-dimensional image corresponding to a moving direction of the ultrasound transducer, according to the number of the two-dimensional image generated per unit time, a first pixel number that is a pixel number in a first direction of the three-dimensional image corresponding to a horizontal direction of the two-dimensional image, and a second pixel number that is a pixel number in a second direction of the three-dimensional image corresponding to a vertical direction of the two-dimensional image.

Abstract: A diagnosis support device includes a control unit that correlates a plurality of pixels included in a two-dimensional image with two or more classes including a biological tissue class, the two-dimensional image being generated by using a signal of a reflected wave of ultrasound transmitted inside a biological tissue through which blood passes and the two-dimensional image including the biological tissue, generates a three-dimensional image of the biological tissue from a pixel group correlated with the biological tissue class, and performs control of displaying the generated three-dimensional image of the biological tissue.

Abstract: An image diagnosis catheter is disclosed, which includes: a sheath inserted into a living body; an ultrasound vibrator capable of transmitting and receiving ultrasound in the sheath; a housing holding the ultrasound vibrator in the sheath; and a drive shaft attached to a proximal side of the housing and rotatable in the sheath, in which an ultrasound transmitting/receiving surface of the ultrasound vibrator facing a radial direction of the sheath is inclined with respect to an extension direction of the sheath such that a distal end of the ultrasound transmitting/receiving surface is closer to an inner peripheral surface of the sheath than a proximal end of the ultrasound transmitting/receiving surface, and the housing does not block a distal side of the ultrasound vibrator in an in-plane direction of the ultrasound transmitting/receiving surface.

Abstract: An information selection device includes a pulsation input unit capable of inputting a pulsation cycle of a heart of a subject, a respiration input unit capable of inputting a respiration cycle of the subject, an information input unit capable of inputting inner wall surface information on the heart at different times, and a control unit that selects, as selection information, the inner wall surface information input at a timing at which a predetermined pulsation phase range included in the pulsation cycle and a predetermined respiration phase range included in the respiration cycle overlap each other, out of a plurality of the input inner wall surface information.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a drive unit connected with an ultrasound element or an image sensor element, and an image processing unit that sequentially generates two-dimensional images of an organ, a blood vessel, or a medical instrument, based on information which is acquired by the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, and that generates a three-dimensional image based on the two-dimensional image. The image processing unit includes a storage unit that stores position correspondence information and/or image correspondence information, and a control unit that determines a position inside the three-dimensional image corresponding to a current position of the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, based on the position correspondence information or the image correspondence information, and that generates display information in real time, in which the determined position inside the three-dimensional image is identified and displayed inside the three-dimensional image.

Abstract: An imaging device capable of acquiring images of an internal structure of a living body highly accurately in a wide range. An imaging device has a first housing to which a proximal portion of an outer sheath is fixed, with a drive shaft for driving a imaging unit and an inner sheath extending through the first housing, and a second housing to which a proximal portion of the inner sheath is fixed and which holds the drive shaft rotatably therein. The first housing has a first port held in fluid communication with an inner lumen of the outer sheath, and the second housing is movable toward and away from the first housing. The imaging device also includes a first gap between the inner sheath and the outer sheath and a second gap between the inner sheath and the drive shaft.

Abstract: Provided is a medical device including: a first elongated body; an electrode that is fixed to the annular expansion portion of the first elongated body; a second elongated body that has a distal portion and a proximal portion, a first lumen communicating from the distal portion to the proximal portion, and a second lumen parallel to the first lumen at the distal portion; and an ultrasound element that is configured to move inside the first lumen of the second elongated body in an axial direction, in which the first elongated body is inserted into the second lumen, and the linear portion of the first elongated body is positioned in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the ultrasound element, and the ultrasound element receives ultrasound reflected from the first elongated body and ultrasound reflected from a body-cavity around the second elongated body.

Abstract: A contrast agent removing device configured to remove a contrast agent from blood vessels includes: an elongated outer tube 40; an inner tube 20 arranged in an interior of the outer tube 40; an expandable portion 30 interlocked with a distal portion of the inner tube 20 and configured to be capable of being stored within the outer tube 40 and to expand radially outward in a funnel shape opening in a distal direction by projecting from the outer tube in the distal direction; and a fixing portion 80 provided at the rim of the expandable portion 30 and configured to be capable of being fixed to a contact object.

Abstract: A contrast agent removing device configured to remove a contrast agent from blood vessels includes: an elongated outer tube 40; an inner tube 20 arranged in an interior of the outer tube 40; an expandable portion 30 interlocked with a distal portion of the inner tube 20 and configured to be capable of being stored within the outer tube 40 and to expand radially outward in a funnel shape opening in a distal direction by projecting from the outer tube in the distal direction; and a fixing portion 80 provided at the rim of the expandable portion 30 and configured to be capable of being fixed to a contact object.

Abstract: A medical device and a treatment method capable of effectively suppressing an inflow of a contrast agent injected into blood vessels into kidney are provided. The medical device for suppressing an inflow of a contrast agent into kidney can include: an elongated inner tube, and a discharging portion configured to be capable of discharging a fluid in a proximal direction from both sides of a distal portion of the inner tube with an axial center being interposed therebetween, wherein the discharging portion includes a plurality of discharging holes arranged in one direction.