PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide means to accurately grasp and analyze the state of a urination function of a person to be examined by a noninvasive and simple method in the diagnosis of urination disorder and the evaluation of drug efficacy.SOLUTION: There is provided a data collection method for the diagnosis of urination disorder or the evaluation of urination disorder treatment medicine, which takes a tomographic image of a bladder of a patient suffering from urination disorder by X-ray CT, etc. Data showing the smoothness of a bladder lumen is created by image processing from the tomographic image of the bladder, and data for the diagnosis of urination disorder or the evaluation of urination disorder treatment medicine is acquired.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】排尿障害の診断や薬効評価において、被検者の排尿機能の状態を非侵襲かつ簡便な手法により、正確に把握し、解析しうる手段を提供する。【解決手段】X線CTなどにより排尿障害患者の膀胱の断層画像を撮像することを特徴とする、排尿障害の診断または排尿障害治療薬の評価のためのデータ収集方法。膀胱の断層画像から、画像処理により、膀胱内腔の滑らかさを示すデータを作成し、排尿障害の診断または排尿障害治療薬の評価のためのデータを得る。【選択図】図2
