Abstract: A shared object is newly created in a unified format with respect to past medical information that is effective in a photographing step or a report creating step. Since the shared object can include a position determination image, unique object information, body coordinates information, a photographing condition, a image creating condition, and key image information, it is possible to automatically set the same photographing condition, photographing range, a tomographic position to be photographed, and image creating condition as those in a past test by using the information described above.

Abstract: A medical image display apparatus includes a device for storing image data for each study, acquired from a subject by a medical modality, and additional information thereof; a device for displaying list information about the study on a monitor based on the additional information; a device for selecting a study from the list information displayed on the monitor, in accordance with designated information; and a device for presenting volume data corresponding to the selected study and included in the image data, as information for collectively showing the presence of the volume data, i.e., as one-line list or thumbnails of a representative slice. With these features, it is possible to show that the designated study is accompanied with the acquired volume data, on a monitor screen in a simple and accurate manner, without the need to display information about all slices constituting the volume data.