To retrieve a desired image from plural types of successive images arranged based on various physical quantities, a cuboid object that is an assembly of multiple unit cells is displayed on a display device, a successive image group is arranged according to the physical quantities of the three axes of the cuboid object that are respectively the body-axis direction position, the first time phase intervals, and the second time phase intervals narrower than the first time phase intervals, and the respective images included in the successive image group and the respective unit cells are associated on one-to-one basis and stored in a main memory. When a three-dimensional position in the cuboid object is input by a mouse operation etc., the CPU retrieves one or multiple images associated with one or multiple unit cells determined according to the input three-dimensional position from the main memory and displays the images in an image display region.
