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| 20100080438 | Radiation image diagnosing system - A radiation image diagnosing system includes a tomosynthesis image capturing assembly for acquiring the data of a plurality of tomosynthetic sectional images. The acquired data of the tomosynthetic sectional images are processed to reconstruct a shift-and-add image by a shift-and-add processor. The acquired data of the tomosynthetic sectional images are also processed to reconstruct an FBP image by an FBP processor. The shift-and-add image and the FBP image are displayed parallel to each other on a display unit. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100119116 | Radiographic tomography apparatus - A radiographic tomography apparatus includes a tomosynthetic image capturing section for applying radiation from a radiation source to an examinee at a plurality of different angles, and detecting the radiation transmitted through the examinee with a radiation conversion panel to capture a plurality of tomosynthetic tomography images of the examinee. The radiographic tomography apparatus further includes a still image capturing section for capturing a plurality of still images of the examinee in one image capturing position at different times, and a body motion detector for detecting a body motion of the examinee based on the still images captured by the still image capturing section. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100124311 | Tomographic image capturing apparatus - A tomographic image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of radiation sources movable along a predetermined path, for applying respective radiation to a subject at different angles and at different times while moving along the predetermined path, a dose adjuster for adjusting the radiation sources to equalize doses of the radiation emitted from the radiation sources, a radiation detector for detecting radiation transmitted through the subject while the radiation sources move along the predetermined path, and converting the detected radiation into respective items of radiographic image information, and a tomographic image generator for generating a tomographic image of the subject based on the items of radiographic image information converted from the radiation and detected by the radiation detector. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100124312 | Tomographic image capturing apparatus - A tomographic image capturing apparatus includes a radiation source movable along a predetermined path, for applying radiation to a subject at different angles, a dose adjuster for adjusting the radiation source to make constant the dose of the radiation emitted from the radiation source independently of irradiation angles of the radiation with respect to the subject, a radiation detector for detecting the radiation transmitted through the subject while the radiation source moves along the predetermined path and converting the detected radiation into radiographic image information, and a tomographic image generator for generating a tomographic image of the subject based on the radiographic image information converted from the radiation detected by the radiation detector. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100171822 | Tomographic image capturing apparatus and tomographic image capturing method - A tomographic image capturing apparatus comprises a radiation source for applying radiation to a subject at a plurality of different angles with respect to the subject, a radiation detector for detecting the radiation which has passed through the subject at each of the different angles and converting the detected radiation into image data, a tomographic image reconstructing unit for processing the image data into a reconstructed tomographic image, and an image capturing continuation determining unit for determining whether image-capturing of the subject is continued or not based on the reconstructed tomographic image. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100172465 | Tomographic image capturing apparatus and tomographic image capturing method - A tomographic image capturing apparatus includes a radiation source for applying radiation to a subject at a plurality of different angles with respect to the subject, a radiation detector for detecting the radiation which has passed through the subject at each of the different angles and converting the detected radiation into image data, a tomographic image reconstructing unit for processing the image data into a reconstructed tomographic image, and an image capturing sequence setting section for establishing an image capturing sequence of a tomosynthesis image capturing process and a simple image capturing process based on ordering information which represents the tomosynthesis image capturing process for acquiring the reconstructed tomographic image and the simple image capturing process for acquiring a simple captured image. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100189330 | Radiographic tomography image generating apparatus - A radiographic tomography image generating apparatus includes a radiographic image acquiring assembly for moving a radiation applicator, which is disposed in confronting relation to a radiation detecting device, successively to a plurality of positions, controlling the radiation applicator to apply radiation to a subject disposed over the radiation detecting device in different directions while the radiation applicator moves successively to the plurality of positions, and storing a plurality of radiographic images output successively from the radiation detecting device in an image memory. The radiographic tomography image generating apparatus also includes an image reconstructor for processing the radiographic images stored in the image memory in order to reconstruct a diagnostic tomography image of the subject according to a reconstructing process, and a preview display unit for displaying preview images on a display monitor based on the radiographic images output successively from the radiation detecting device. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100195789 | Radiographic image capturing system and radiographic image capturing method - Tomographic image data acquired by a tomosynthesis image capturing assembly are output from an image output unit to an image processor, and are processed for generating a reconstructed tomographic image. In this case, a part of data is selectively and step by step output from the image output unit to the image processor for reconstruction. Before generating a complete tomographic image, the interim result of the tomographic image is displayed on a display unit. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110075793 | Radiography apparatus - When a subject is irradiated with radiation, and the radiation that has passed through the subject is detected, body thickness information about the subject is obtained. Further, a slice image obtainment condition representing a range in which a slice image is obtained in the subject is set based on the body thickness information. Further, the slice image is obtained based on the slice image obtainment condition. | 03-31-2011 |
