Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110188630 | Radiographic image capturing apparatus and radiographic image capturing system - A radiographic image capturing apparatus has a radiation source device including a radiation source for outputting radiation, a detector device including a radiation detector for detecting radiation that is transmitted through a subject when the subject is irradiated with radiation by the radiation source, and converting the detected radiation into a radiographic image, and an electric power supply limiting unit limiting a route for supply of electric power at least between the radiation source device and the detector device, and supplying electric power between the radiation source device and the detector device. | 08-04-2011 |
20110233411 | Method of managing radiation detectors, radiographic image capturing apparatus, and radiographic image capturing system - A method of managing radiation detectors allows the radiation detectors to be assembled into a radiographic image capturing apparatus such that defective pixels of the radiation detectors are not disposed at the same pixel position (coordinates). The method comprises the steps of recognizing the positions of defective pixels of a plurality of manufactured radiation detectors, referring to the recognized positions of the defective pixels, and assembling at least two radiation detectors into the radiographic image capturing apparatus in a superposed relationship, such that the defective pixels of the radiation detectors are not superposed one on the other. | 09-29-2011 |
20110233415 | Radiographic image capturing apparatus and radiographic image capturing system - In a radiographic image capturing apparatus, by interfitting each of panel accommodating units by means of connecting sections so that portions of respective radiation conversion panels are superimposed, and that each of the irradiated surfaces thereof are repeated alternately in a sequence of a first irradiated surface and a second irradiated surface thereof, an image capturing surface of the radiographic image capturing apparatus, which is constituted to include respective image capturing regions, is maintained in a substantially planar condition. | 09-29-2011 |
20110305321 | Radiographic apparatus and method - A timing to acquire a still image signal is controlled such that a sum (Tst+Trd) of a storage period Tst and a readout period Trd for the still image signal is an integral multiple (Ts+Tr=Tck×n, where n is an integer of 2 or greater) of a cycle Tck of a moving image capturing mode, when a detector controller acquires the still image signal while acquiring a moving image signal from a radiation detector during the cycle Tck (Ts+Tr) of the moving image capturing mode. | 12-15-2011 |
20120126124 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a resetting light source, a switching filter, a photodetector substrate, and a scintillator, which are arranged successively in this order. If the switching filter is made permeable to resetting light from the resetting light source, the switching filter applies the resetting light to the photodetector substrate. If the switching filter is made impermeable to the resetting light, the switching filter reflects at least a fluorescence, which is converted from radiation by the scintillator, toward the photodetector substrate. | 05-24-2012 |
20120153171 | RADIATION DETECTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RADIATION DETECTOR, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS INCORPORATING RADIATION DETECTOR - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a housing and a radiation detector accommodated in the housing. The radiation detector includes a scintillator for converting radiation into visible light and photodiodes for converting the visible light into electric charges. If it is assumed that a temperature-dependent rate of change in sensitivity of the scintillator with respect to the radiation is represented by A [%/K] and a temperature-dependent rate of change in sensitivity of the photodiodes with respect to visible light is represented by B [%/K], a scintillator and photodiodes are selected having temperature-dependent rates of change A and B that satisfy the following inequality (1): | 06-21-2012 |
20130043400 | RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE, RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AFFIXING RADIATION CONVERSION PANEL IN RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed is a radiation imaging device configuring a radiation imaging system. Specifically disclosed is a radiation imaging device wherein external force action mechanisms are capable of applying external force to the peripheral sections of a radiation conversion panel, or applying the external force while being laminated on the radiation conversion panel, or pressing the radiation conversion panel against the inner wall of a panel containing unit, which contains the radiation conversion panel, at least in imaging when radiation is applied. | 02-21-2013 |
20130134316 | RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE - In this radiography device, the radiation conversion panel side of a scintillator is formed in a convex shape towards the radiation conversion panel, the end portions of columnar crystals are formed at said side, and the end portions of the columnar crystals can contact the radiation conversion panel. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142309 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE - A radiation imaging system that can continuously use sections of a radiation imaging device that has not been damaged and a radiation imaging device are provided. The radiation imaging system comprises: a radiation device that applies radiation; and the radiation imaging device with an imaging panel that captures images of the applied radiation. The radiation imaging device comprises: a failure cause detection unit that detects environmental noise or falls that cause failures in the radiation imaging device; a malfunction diagnostic unit that, in a case where a detected environmental noise value reaches a threshold value or in a case where a fall has been detected, diagnoses a malfunction in the radiation imaging device; and a function limiting unit that applies limits to the radiation imaging device functions that are used continuously, in accordance with the diagnosis results of the malfunction diagnostic unit. | 06-06-2013 |
20140233700 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RADIATION DETECTION DEVICE - A radiation detection device has: a scintillator for converting radiation into fluorescence; a photoelectric conversion unit for converting the fluorescence into an electric signal; and a reset light source unit for exposing reset light to the photoelectric conversion unit. A system control unit has an optical reset disabling unit for, based on a reset disabling instruction, disabling the exposure of the reset light output from the reset light source unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140276056 | MEDICAL SYSTEM - In a portable apparatus of a medical system, in a case where an operation unit receives an operation from a physician on the basis of the display contents of a display unit, the medical apparatus controlled as a result of the operation of the operation unit by an operator is defined by an operation control unit, and a signal in response to the operation contents received by the operation unit is transmitted from a transmission unit to the defined medical apparatus. | 09-18-2014 |