Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090189762 | Electronic device - During communication periods between transportable electronic cassette and an image reading device by laser light, laser light detection is carried out by peripheral light sensors provided at the periphery of laser light receiving regions of the electronic cassette and the image reading device. The detected value of the received light amount of the laser light by the peripheral light sensor is monitored to see whether or not the detected value exceeds a reference value, the detected value at the start of communication, by a specific value or greater. If the detected value of the received light amount exceeds the reference value by the specific value or greater, then it is concluded that there has been a relatively large change in the relative position of the electronic cassette and the image reading device, and emission is halted of the laser light from the electronic cassette and the image reading device. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190922 | Communication system - A communication system includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a first housing including a first guiding member, a modulator modulating a laser beam based on transmission information, and an emission unit emitting the laser beam that has been modulated. The second device includes a second housing including a light-receiving region on an outer surface of the second housing, a receiver that, when a relative position between the first and the second housings is adjusted to a communicable position at which the modulated laser beam is incident within the light-receiving region, receives the transmission information from the first device by detecting the modulated laser beam and demodulating the transmission information based on the detection result, and a second guiding member being disposed on the second housing and guides the first and the second housings to the communicable position by contacting the first guiding member. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190923 | Electronic apparatus - A system including a device equipped with a reception section, a reception condition detection section and a control section. A partner device emits laser light and modulates the laser light in accordance with transfer subject information. Relative positions of the partner device and the device are adjusted to a communication-possible position, at which the laser light from the partner device is incident in a light reception region of the device. In this state, the reception section receives the transmission subject information from the partner device by detecting the incident laser light and demodulating the transmission subject information therefrom. The reception condition detection section detects a deterioration in a reception condition. If a deterioration in the reception condition is detected, the control section produces a warning or stops emissions of laser light from the partner device. | 07-30-2009 |
20090214220 | Electronic device - The main power source unit of an image read-out device supplies power to an laser diode (LD) power supply unit of an electronic cassette through a contact. The LD power supply unit supplies the supplied power to a laser diode (LD), as power used for emitting laser light, and also supplies a portion of the supplied power to an LD power supply unit of the image read-out device through a contact. The power supplied to the LD power supply unit of the image read-out device is supplied as power for emitting laser light to an LD of the image read-out device. When there is a change in the relative position of the casings of the electronic cassette and the image read-out device, the contact and electrical continuation of the contacts breaks and laser light stops being emitted from the LDs. | 08-27-2009 |
20090220052 | Portable radiation image converting device - A portable radiation image converting device has: an image data generating unit that is sensitive to radiation, and that generates image data expressing a radiation image manifested by radiation that is transmitted through a subject and is irradiated onto an image-receiving surface; a storage unit storing image data generated by the image data generating unit; and one or more projecting units projecting, to a device exterior, various types of information including a radiation image expressed by image data that is stored in the storage unit. Various types of information including a radiation image that is generated by radiation, that has been transmitted through a subject and irradiated onto an image-receiving surface, and is stored in a memory, are projected to a device exterior by a projecting device. A portable radiation image converting device at which confirmation of a stored radiation image is easy to carry out is thereby provided. | 09-03-2009 |
20090278047 | Electronic device - A transportable electronic cassette and an image reading device carry out communication by laser light between themselves, with the separation distance to the casing of the opposing device detected by separation distance sensors provided respectively to the electronic cassette and the image reading device. The value of the separation distance detected is monitored to see whether or not the separation distance exceeds a reference value of the detected value at the start of communication by a specific value or more. Conclusion can be made that there has been a relatively large change in the relative position of the electronic cassette and the image reading device if the detected value of the separation distance becomes greater than the reference value by the specific value or more, and consequently emission is halted of the laser light from the electronic cassette and the image reading device. | 11-12-2009 |
20100252740 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND RADIATION IMAGING METHOD - Placement of a marker is performed efficiently, when performing a plurality of radiation imaging operations of a subject with different imaging angles. An operator inputs a region of interest within a subject on a bed, via an operating section. The region of interest and a peripheral region thereof are set as an irradiation range, and the marker is placed in the peripheral region. A radiation source control section causes a radiation source to emit radiation toward the subject within the set irradiation range. Radiation which passes through the subject is obtained by a radiation image detector as a radiation image. | 10-07-2010 |
20100292538 | ENDOSCOPE - A front end rigid portion constitutes a front end of an endoscope insertion unit in an endoscope. The front end rigid portion is provided with an illumination optical system irradiating an observation target area with illumination light and an imaging optical system having an imaging element imaging the observation target area. The endoscope includes a heat emission member which is connected to the front end rigid portion and extends in the longitudinal direction of the endoscope insertion unit. The heat emission member is formed by mixing fiber-piece-shaped fillers with a resin material. | 11-18-2010 |
20100322376 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A plurality of radiation images of an object are acquired by iterating the steps of: beginning driving of a rotation driving unit at the time at which a breathing signal having been detected by a breathing sensor has come into a predetermined state, performing a radiation imaging operation with a set of a radiation source and a radiation detector at the time, at which the heart has come into a predetermined state, in accordance with a heartbeat signal having been detected by a heartbeat sensor within a rotation driving period, during which the rotation driving unit performs the rotation driving, and ceasing the rotation driving of the rotation driving unit at the time at which the breathing of the object has come into a state other than the predetermined state. | 12-23-2010 |
20110186741 | Radiographic image capturing apparatus, radiographic image capturing system, and method of supplying electric power to radiographic image capturing apparatus - A radiographic image capturing apparatus has a radiation source device including a radiation source for outputting radiation, and 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. At least one of the radiation source device and the detector device has an electric power supply limiting unit for limiting supply of electric power, and the electric power supply limiting unit controls supply of electric power between the radiation source device and the detector device, depending on timing of an image capturing process. | 08-04-2011 |
20110222758 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A radiographic image capturing system includes an image reconstructor for processing a plurality of radiographic images of a subject in order to reconstruct a radiographic tomographic image of the subject, and a monitor for displaying at least the radiographic tomographic image. The radiographic image capturing system also includes a region-of-interest setter for setting a region of interest of the subject on the radiographic images or the radiographic tomographic image, a radiographic image extractor for extracting, from among the radiographic images, two radiographic images for viewing the region of interest by way of stereographic vision, and a first stereographic vision display controller or a second stereographic vision display controller for controlling the monitor to display the extracted two radiographic images for stereographic vision. | 09-15-2011 |
20110261928 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - An electronic cassette includes a handle suspended on a cable, and a cassette main body suspended together with the handle on the cable when being mounted to the handle. The cassette main body has a power source for supplying electric power to various circuits and the like in the cassette main body when the cassette main body is removed from the handle, and an image memory for storing the image data. Image-taking can be performed in a state that the cassette main body is removed from the handle. | 10-27-2011 |
20120045110 | METHOD OF ENCODING A RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SIGNAL, METHOD OF DECODING A RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SIGNAL, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - From a radiation detecting unit for detecting a radiographic image of a subject by receiving radiation transmitted through the subject, a radiographic image signal representing the radiographic image is read out, and information about an imaging operation carried out to obtain the radiographic image of the subject is obtained. The radiographic image signal is encoded with using key information based on the obtained information about the imaging operation to generate an encoded radiographic image signal, and the encoded radiographic image signal is outputted as a radio communication signal. | 02-23-2012 |
20120073614 | ENDOSCOPE CLEANING SYSTEM AND ENDOSCOPE CLEANING METHOD - An endoscope cleaning system of one aspect of the subject matter includes: a first cleaning device configured to clean an endoscope; a second cleaning device configured to clean the endoscope according to a method different from that of the first cleaning device; and a cleaning evaluation device configured to determine whether or not a cleaning level of the endoscope cleaned by one of the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device satisfies a predetermined criterion, wherein one of the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device cleans the endoscope in accordance with a determination result of the cleaning evaluation device. | 03-29-2012 |
20120075293 | ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, ADJUSTMENT DEVICE USED THEREFORE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE USE THEREFORE - In an adjustment method of a stereoscopic display used for stereoscopic display and an adjustment device used therefore, the burden on an observer can be reduced. An adjustment method of a stereoscopic display having a light output unit for a right eye which outputs a light signal for the right eye and a light output unit for a left eye which outputs a light signal for the left eye includes: performing first measurement for measuring the luminance of the light signal for the right eye; performing second measurement for measuring the luminance of the light signal for the left eye; acquiring first and second representative luminance values corresponding to each other by the first and second measurements, respectively; and adjusting an output of the light output unit such that a difference between the first and second representative luminance values falls within a predetermined range. | 03-29-2012 |
20120126129 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a photodetector substrate, a scintillator, a switching filter, and a resetting light source, 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 allows resetting light to be applied to the photodetector substrate through the scintillator, whereas, 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 |
20120271105 | ENDOSCOPE INSERTION ASSISTING DEVICE - An insertion assisting device includes a rotary body formed in a toroidal shape, and a support and drive unit that rotatably supports and rotates the rotary body. The support and drive unit has two supports, a first support and a second support. The first support is formed in a substantially cylindrical shape, and rotatably supports the rotary body. The second support is formed in a substantially triangular tubular shape, is arranged inside the first support, and supports driving gears that transmit a driving force to the rotary body. The second support is shorter than the first support, and is arranged so that front and rear end portions thereof are located inside front and rear end portions of the first support. | 10-25-2012 |
20130053635 | DEVICE FOR STERILIZATION CHECK - A device for sterilization check for an endoscope, comprising: | 02-28-2013 |
20130082184 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention provides a radiographic imaging device that may image radiographic images with high sharpness while suppressing a drop in sensitivity. Namely, a radiation detector, in which a scintillator that generates light due to irradiation of radiation and a TFT substrate on which plural sensor portions configured including an organic photoelectric conversion material that generates electric charges by receiving light are disposed are sequentially layered, is positioned in such a way that radiation that has passed through a subject is made incident from the TFT substrate side. | 04-04-2013 |
20130096375 | HUMIDITY DETECTING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENDOSCOPE, AND ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A humidity state at a distal end portion of an endoscope internal space can be reliably estimated without enlarging the diameter of an endoscope insertion part. | 04-18-2013 |
20130119260 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - A radiographic imaging device has two radiation detectors | 05-16-2013 |
20130126743 | RADIATION DETECTOR - A radiation detector includes a scintillator layer, a first photoelectric conversion layer, a second photoelectric conversion layer, and one board or two boards. The scintillator layer, the first photoelectric conversion layer, the second photoelectric conversion layer, and the one board or two boards are layered. The first photoelectric conversion layer is constituted with one of a first organic material and an inorganic material with a wider radiation absorption wavelength range than the first organic material. The first photoelectric conversion layer absorbs at least light of a first wavelength and converts the light to charges. The second photoelectric conversion layer is constituted with a second organic material that is different from the first organic material. The second photoelectric conversion layer absorbs more of light of a second wavelength than of light of the first wavelength and converts the light to charges. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126850 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND RADIATION DETECTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A radiation detector that includes a first scintillator layer, an organic photoelectric conversion layer and a substrate is provided. The first scintillator layer, the organic photoelectric conversion layer and the substrate are layered along a radiation incident direction. The first scintillator layer contains a blend of a first phosphor material that is mainly sensitive to low energy radiation in incident radiation and converts the radiation into light of a first wavelength, and a second phosphor material that is more sensitive to high energy than low energy radiation in the radiation and converts the radiation into light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The organic photoelectric conversion layer is configured by disposing a plurality of first light detection sensors and a plurality of second light detection sensors in the same plane. | 05-23-2013 |
20130140464 | RADIATION DETECTION PANEL - A radiation detection panel includes a single light emitting section, a first detection section and a second detection section. The single light emitting section absorbs radiation that has been transmitted through an imaging subject and that emits light. The first detection section detects light emitted from the light emitting section as an image. The second detection section that is formed from an organic photoelectric conversion material and that detects light emitted from the light emitting section. The light emitting section, the first detection section and the second detection section are stacked in layers along a radiation incident direction. | 06-06-2013 |
20130228694 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - A radiographic imaging device that may detect irradiation states of radiation is provided. Pixels for radiation detection that are provided in a radiation detector of an electronic cassette are configured with characteristics thereof being alterable. The characteristics are set in accordance with the imaging conditions of a radiation image by a cassette control section of the electronic cassette. | 09-05-2013 |
20130300737 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM - At least one of parallax images for left and right eyes to be fusionally displayed to perform stereopsis using binocular parallax is generated at low resolution or low sharpness of such a degree that a subject in the parallax image is observable as a stereoscopic image when an observer observes the subject in an observation mode in which the two fusionally displayed parallax images are stereoscopically viewable, and also of such a degree that the subject is recognizable as a plane image when an observer observes the subject in an observation mode in which the two fusionally displayed parallax images are not stereoscopically viewable. | 11-14-2013 |
20130331682 | BREAST IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - In a breast image capturing apparatus having an arm section for moving a radiation source in a left-right direction in front of a subject, providing a shielding member for preventing radiation from being applied to the face of the subject on an arm section, and supporting the shielding member movably relative to the arm section when the face of the subject is abutted to the shielding member and fixedly relative to the arm section when the face of the subject is not abutted to the shielding member. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336444 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS - In a case where a series of operations of an imaging sequence are continuously performed when an imaging switch is continuously in ON state, if the imaging switch is turned into OFF state only for a given period and the given period is not more than a predetermined threshold value, control is exerted such that part of the operations of the imaging sequence is continuously performed. | 12-19-2013 |
20140012086 | SELF-PROPELLING DEVICE - A self-propelling device includes a turning unit and a supporter. The supporter includes a first support sleeve, a second support sleeve and a cover formed respectively cylindrically. A drive wheel is secured to the first support sleeve in a rotatable manner. A pair of follower rollers are secured to the second support sleeve together. The cover is fitted on an outer surface of the second support sleeve externally, and disposed in the turning unit together with the second support sleeve. The turning unit is pressed by the follower rollers to the drive wheel. When the drive wheel rotates, the turning unit is circulated around the second support sleeve in a longitudinal direction of the first support sleeve. An inner wall of a body cavity will not be damaged, as the follower rollers are covered by the cover and do not appear externally even if the turning unit breaks. | 01-09-2014 |
20140022247 | RADIOLOGICAL BREAST IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, RADIOLOGICAL BREAST IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - Generating a right-eye image by combining a right-side capturing image (4° capturing image) of a right breast with a left-side capturing image (0° capturing image) of a left breast rotated by 180° such that the chest walls of the breasts face to each other and a left-eye image by combining a left-side capturing image (0° capturing image) of the right breast with a right-side capturing image (4° capturing image) of the left breast rotated by 180° such that the chest walls of the breasts face to each other. Based on the right-eye and left-eye images generated in the manner described above, displaying a stereoscopic image on a monitor. | 01-23-2014 |
20140027650 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD, RADIATION DETECTOR AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A radiation detector for detecting irradiated radiation that includes: a converting layer for converting radiation irradiated from a radiation source capable of irradiating radiation from two imaging directions, which are different from each other, into electric charges; and a plurality of pixel electrodes for collecting the converted charges. In the radiation detector, when at least one of the two imaging directions forms a specified angle θ with respect to the direction that is orthogonal to the detector plane of the radiation detector, the thickness d of the converting layer and the sizes p of the pixel electrodes satisfy the condition: d·tan θ01-30-2014 | |
20140046133 | SELF-PROPELLING DEVICE - A self-propelling device includes a drive unit and a toroid unit supported thereabout. The toroid unit includes a track structure of a toroid shape and a roller support sleeve inside the track structure. Three belt portions are provided in the track structure with high rigidity. The drive unit includes an inner sleeve for mounting on an introducer of an endoscope, and an outer sleeve supported around the inner sleeve. An inner surface of the roller support sleeve and an outer surface of the outer sleeve extend triangularly. Drive wheels are disposed upstream and downstream of respectively flat portions of the outer sleeve. Two follower rollers are disposed on respectively each of flat portions of the roller support sleeve. The drive wheels and follower rollers nip the belt portions of the track structure to move the track structure endlessly. | 02-13-2014 |
20140056409 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, RADIATION DETECTING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING BASE AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A radiation image capturing system includes a first image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject, a second image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of the subject, the second image capturing apparatus having a specification different from that of the first image capturing apparatus, an image correcting device for correcting the radiation image of the subject which is captured by the second image capturing apparatus such that the radiation image of the subject which is captured by the second image capturing apparatus has the same magnification as that of the radiation image of the subject which is captured by the first image capturing apparatus, and a display unit for displaying the corrected radiation image. The radiation images captured by the image capturing apparatus of different specifications are corrected to have the same magnification. | 02-27-2014 |
20140061496 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: a radiation detector including plural radiographic image acquisition pixels that are arranged in a matrix in an imaging region for capturing a radiographic image and that acquire image information representing the radiographic image by converting applied radiation into electric charges and storing the electric charges and plural radiation detection pixels that are arranged in the imaging region, that have mutually different characteristics, and that detect the applied radiation by converting the applied radiation into electric charges and storing the electric charges; and a detecting unit that uses the radiation detection pixels selectively according to the characteristics to detect a state of application of the radiation. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064638 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL SUPPORT - A resize process is performed on an examination image to produce a high quality image and a low quality image. Image quality of the low quality image is lower than that of the high quality image. A distribution controller transmits the high quality image to a support terminal of a registered support medical staff who provides medical support based on the examination image. The distribution controller transmits the low quality image to a support terminal of a registered support medical staff who does not provide the medical support based on the examination image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067409 | Apparatus and method for providing medical support - A decline notification receiving section of a management server of a medical support apparatus receives a decline notification from an external support terminal of a medical support staff (decliner) who declines or stops participating in medical support. A substitute medical staff requesting section accesses a medical support staff database in which data of medical support staffs is stored, creates a candidate list of substitute medical staffs capable of providing the medical support in place of the decliner, and transmits the candidate list to the decliner's external support terminal. The decliner selects a substitute medical staff from the candidate list and transmits data of the selected substitute medical staff to a substitute medical staff data receiving section. A terminal management section starts managing an external substitute terminal of the selected substitute medical staff as a terminal for providing the medical support to an in-hospital terminal. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067410 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL SUPPORT - When a support request comment is transmitted from an in-hospital terminal of a primary care physician, a distribution server transmits a support request including initial data to each support terminal which a support medical staff uses. A time limit is set on the initial data. After the transmission of the support request, remarks of participants in a medical support consultation and examination images are distributed only to the participants' support terminals. The time limit for the initial data transmitted to the each participant's support terminal is extended. The time limit for the initial data transmitted to the support terminal of a nonparticipant is not extended. Access to the initial data on the support terminal is disabled when the time limit is reached. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067419 | MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A medical support device distributes medical information of a patient to external terminals of supporters and a hospital terminal of a doctor in charge of the patient, and shares the medical information and comments to support diagnosis and treatment of the doctor. An information sending section distributes the medial information to the external and hospital terminals. An information receiving section receives response information made by the supporter in response to the distribution information. A relation display controller displays the distribution and response information in a related manner. An importance determining section determines the degree of importance of the distribution and response information. A display style changer changes a display style of the distribution and response information in the external and hospital terminals in accordance with the degree of importance to emphasize the important information. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067420 | MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A medical support device distributes medical information of a patient to external terminals the supporters have, and shares comments from the supporters to support diagnosis and treatment of a doctor in charge of the patient. In the medical support device, an information sending section distributes the information to the external terminals. An information receiving section receives response information sent from the doctor or the supporter in response to the distributed information. A relation display controller displays the distributed and response information in a related manner. An importance determining section determines the degree of importance of the distributed information. When the degree of importance of the distributed information equals or exceeds a threshold value, a reception state setting section suspends transmission of new information from the external terminals and a hospital terminal and puts the terminals in a ready-to-receive state. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068653 | REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGE - In a remote diagnostic system, one remote service provider among plural remote service providers is requested by a health care provider (service requester) to diagnose a medical image, and the image is transmitted thereto. Attribute information constituted by at least one of an object region and symptom information of an object in the image is input for the request of diagnosis. The one remote service provider is selected among the plural remote service providers, to transmit the image and the attribute information to the selected remote service provider. It is checked whether the object region or symptom information of the image corresponds to an available specialty of the selected remote service provider by use of a specialty database component. If it is judged in authorization control that the object region or symptom information of the image does not correspond to the available specialty, distribution of the image is rejected. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072103 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an FPD and short-circuited pixels. The FPD has pixels arranged in arrays for detecting an X-ray image. The short-circuited pixels detect a radiation dose of X-rays in the FPD. The X-ray imaging apparatus is changed over between first and second operating modes. The first operating mode is selected in case of combining with an X-ray generating apparatus with communication compatibility, and performs an exposure control for controlling a total radiation dose according to a detection signal from the short-circuited pixels. The second operating mode is selected in case of combining with an X-ray generating apparatus with communication incompatibility, and performs control of start synchronization for synchronizing operation of the FPD with the emission start of X-rays according to a detection signal from the short-circuited pixels. Thus, control of the X-ray imaging apparatus is changed over appropriately. | 03-13-2014 |
20140079310 | RADIATION EXPOSURE DOSE OBTAINING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a case where a radiation exposure dose of a subject is obtained in a radiation exposure dose obtaining apparatus based on a radiation image signal of each frame detected by a radiation image detector by continuously performing radiological imaging of the subject due to the continuous radiological imaging, an area corresponding to a region of the subject is set in an image represented by the radiation image signal and a radiation exposure dose is obtained for each set area. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086390 | RADIATION EXPOSURE DOSE OBTAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - In the case where a radiation exposure dose of a human body that includes an artificial object is obtained based on a radiation image signal detected by a radiation image detector through the application of radiation transmitted through the human body, information of the artificial object included in the human body is obtained and, in the case where information indicating that an artificial object is included in the human body is obtained as the information of the artificial object, a correction is performed to increase the radiation exposure dose, which is based on the radiation image signal, by a predetermined correction radiation exposure dose. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086391 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An X-ray image detecting device has an FPD having a matrix of pixels each for accumulating signal charge in accordance with an X-ray irradiation amount. An imaging area of the FPD is partitioned into a plurality of divided sections A to I. Each of the divided sections A to I has a short pixel for detecting X-ray irradiation. In a synchronization control for controlling the FPD in synchronization with detection of a start of X-ray emission from an X-ray source, a control unit for controlling the X-ray image detecting device uses all the divided sections A to I. In an automatic exposure control for stopping the X-ray emission from the X-ray source by detecting a total X-ray irradiation amount, the control unit uses part of the divided sections, e.g. the short pixels of the divided sections that are judged to be opposed to an object in the synchronization control. | 03-27-2014 |
20140088993 | GRAPH GENERATION DEVICE, GRAPH GENERATION METHOD AND GRAPH GENERATION PROGRAM - Test intervals respectively corresponding to a plurality of medical tests for diagnosis or treatment are obtained, and a period to be displayed on a time series graph showing test results of the medical tests is determined such that the period to be displayed is not shorter than the longest test interval of the obtained test intervals. Then, the time series graph is generated based on the determined period to be displayed and test results of the medical tests performed on a given subject. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093043 | RADIATION EXPOSURE DOSE OBTAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - In the case where radiological imaging of a subject to be injected with a contrast agent is performed continuously and a radiation exposure dose of the subject due to the continuous radiological imaging is obtained based on a radiation image signal of each frame detected by a radiation image detector through the continuous radiological imaging, identifying a frame which includes an image signal representing an image of the contrast agent as a contrast agent frame from the radiation image signal of each frame, and correcting the radiation exposure dose based on information of the contrast agent frame and obtaining a radiation exposure dose of the subject for the radiological imaging of the contrast agent frame. | 04-03-2014 |
20140094661 | CLINICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A clinical information display apparatus in which a plurality of clinical information items is classified into display and non-display targets and clinical information corresponding to a clinical information item classified as the display target is displayed on a display unit, including an anomaly detection unit for detecting an anomaly in clinical information corresponding to a clinical information item classified as the non-display target, and a notification unit for, when an anomaly is detected by the anomaly detection unit, making a notification to that effect. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095202 | MEDICATION EFFECT PREDICTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - When a notice of medication completion, which indicates completion of medication to a patient, is transmitted from an electronic medical chart server, a medication effect information transmission device collects medication effect information relating to a medication effect on the patient from an image server and an electronic medical chart server. The medication effect information transmission device transmits and stores the collected medication effect information to a medication effect information database. A client terminal searches a medication effect information server on a basis of a drug's name and attribute data of the patient. The medication effect information server transmits average medication effect information, which represents an average medication effect of the designated drug, to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the average medication effect information in a time series on a monitor. | 04-03-2014 |
20140103220 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - An electronic cassette includes a first radiation detector for still imaging and a second radiation detector for fluoroscopic imaging. The first radiation detector includes a first photo detection device and a luminous device. The luminous device generates visible light by absorbing radiation transmitted through the first photo detection device. The first radiation detector detects the visible light generated by the luminous device. The second radiation detector is constituted by the luminous device and a second photo detection device disposed downstream of the luminous device in an optical path direction of the radiation. The second photo detection device detects the visible light generated by the luminous device. The second radiation detector is changed over to the first radiation detector, so that still imaging can be started by rapid setting during operation of fluoroscopic imaging. | 04-17-2014 |
20140103222 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - This radiation imaging system has a radiation source, a case, and a radiation detection device which is housed in the case, and is equipped with a radiation detector having a conversion unit that converts radiation from the radiation source, which has passed through at least a subject, to radiation image information, wherein a prediction is made as to whether the afterimage phenomenon has occurred in the conversion unit, and if it is predicted that the phenomenon has occurred, at least the conversion unit is moved. | 04-17-2014 |
20140107419 | ASSIST ASSEMBLY FOR PROPULSION OF ENDOSCOPE - An assist assembly for propulsion of a tip device of an endoscope in a body cavity includes an attachment sleeve and a support sleeve. A deformable circulation device is disposed to extend over inner and outer surfaces of the support sleeve, for endlessly moving in an axial direction of the tip device. Plural rollers are disposed on the support sleeve in a rotatable manner, for pressing an inner surface of the circulation device. An alignment projection is formed on the inner surface of the circulation device to project at a height L | 04-17-2014 |
20140107463 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A radiation image capturing system and a radiation image capturing method, wherein this radiation image capturing system comprises a radiation source, a radiation detection device provided with a radiation detector for converting radiation that has been transmitted through at least a subject from the radiation source into radiation image information, a photographing sequence setting unit for setting the photographing sequence of radiation photographing when successive radiation photographing is performed, and a photographing sequence display unit (a display device, a cassette display unit, a terminal display unit) for displaying the set photographing sequence. | 04-17-2014 |
20140110595 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RADIATION IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE - A determination section of an FPD checks external information against a determination table and determines whether detection of a rise of X-ray pulses is allowed based on an output voltage from a short-circuited pixel. The FPD detects X-ray images. The external information is transmitted from an imaging control device. The X-ray pulses are sequentially generated by an X-ray generating apparatus. A controller selects a pulse irradiation mode in a case where the detection of the rise of the X-ray pulse is allowed. If not, a successive irradiation mode is selected. In the pulse irradiation mode, the rise and the fall of the X-ray pulse are detected and timing of storage operation is synchronized with the detected timing of the rise. In the successive irradiation mode, the storage operation is performed at predetermined time intervals without the detection of the rise and the fall of the X-ray pulse. | 04-24-2014 |
20140161228 | RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND RADIOGRAPHY METHOD - In a radiography system and radiography method according to the present invention, the radiography system comprises: a radiography device further comprising a radiation device further comprising a radiation source, and a radiation detection device which converts radiation which passes through a radiography subject into radiography information; and a system control portion which controls the radiography device to execute radiography at a set frame rate. The system control portion further comprises: a radiation emission disabling portion which interrupts the irradiation of radiation from the radiation source at least in a case where an error occurs with the radiography device; and a recovery processing portion which implements control so as to set the irradiation energy of the radiation source to a preset low irradiation energy and execute the radiography in a case where recovering from the error state. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161341 | IMAGE REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FILE GENERATING APPARATUS - With respect to two images of an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye constituting a stereoscopic image, and which have been obtained at a mammography apparatus, a computer sets one of the two images, as a main image, and the remaining image as a sub-image. Further, a password releasable exclusively by an image reproducing terminal that copes with reproduction of a stereoscopic image file is set for the sub-image, and the two images are stored in a stereoscopic image file. | 06-12-2014 |
20140209806 | RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND RADIOGRAPHY METHOD - The present invention pertains to a radiography system and a radiography method. A radiation output device has a plurality of radiation sources disposed along a predetermined plane. Also, in accordance with whether an imaging state is a still image mode or a moving picture mode, at least one of the radiation sources that outputs radiation among the plurality of radiation sources is selected. | 07-31-2014 |
20140213895 | RADIATION IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - Two radiation images are acquired by emitting radiation to a subject from two imaging directions that form a first imaging angle, and two radiation images are acquired imaged from two imaging directions that form a second imaging angle. The radiation images of the first imaging angle are displayed as two-dimensional images while the radiation images of the second imaging angle are displayed as a stereoscopic image. Designation of a predetermined position in the radiation images that are displayed as two-dimensional images is received to obtain position information. The obtained position information in the radiation images of the first imaging angle is projected onto the radiation images of the second imaging angle based on the position information and three-dimensional position information is obtained. Based on the three-dimension position information, markers are displayed on the radiation images of the second imaging angle which are displayed as a stereoscopic image. | 07-31-2014 |
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20140275954 | RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM - This radiography system has a switching processing unit that switches the device that controls a radiation source and a radiography device to a control device or a portable apparatus. In a case where penetrative imaging has started, the switching processing unit switches the device that controls the radiation source and the radiography device from the control device to the portable apparatus. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285525 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS WITH DISPLAY UNIT - In a mobile terminal apparatus, a display unit displays a diagnostic image read from an image storage device. The image storage device stores plural image groups, each of which includes plural diagnostic images. Movement of the display unit is detected. Assuming that the display unit is moved in a mode of transverse movement while a first diagnostic image included in a first image group is displayed on the display unit, then changeover is carried out to display a second diagnostic image being included in the first image group and different from the first diagnostic image. Assuming that the display unit is moved in a mode of a single shake different from the mode of transverse movement while the first diagnostic image is displayed on the display unit, then changeover is carried out to display a third diagnostic image being included in an image group different from the first image group. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285647 | PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A portable terminal apparatus for imaging diagnosis includes an object recognition unit for selectively specifying one object (body part or anatomical region) in a body, so as to output object information. A region of the object is changeable according to a terminal position or terminal orientation relative to the body. An image acquisition device acquires a medical image from a server apparatus with relevancy to the object according to the object information. A display unit displays the medical image. Preferably, furthermore, an optical camera optically images the object to create a local image. The object recognition unit specifies the object by image analysis of the local image. Also, the object recognition unit compares the local image with an optical body image created by optically imaging the body wholly in the optical camera, to detect the object in the local image. | 09-25-2014 |
20140287718 | DATA SECURITY APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINAL - In an information sharing system, a data security apparatus includes a location acquisition device for acquiring GPS location information of a current location of a mobile terminal apparatus. A location evaluator checks whether the mobile terminal apparatus is located within a zone area according to the location information. A storage device stores association information of a relationship between the zone area and medical data of a medical chart allowed to be read within the zone area by authorization. A cancellation signal generator generates a cancellation signal for instructing cancellation of the medical data in case the location evaluator judges that the mobile terminal apparatus is moved out of the zone area. Furthermore, a data distributer transmits the medical data to the mobile terminal apparatus. In case the location evaluator judges that the mobile terminal apparatus has entered the zone area, the data distributer starts transmitting the medical data. | 09-25-2014 |
20140292777 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS HAVING RADIO COMMUNICATION INTERFACE - A mobile terminal apparatus having a radio communication interface for radio communication includes a touchscreen device. A program receiver receives program from a server apparatus storing plural sets of program, for communication access to an imaging apparatus. A controller functions according to the received program, drives the touchscreen device to display a user interface view, and causes the radio communication interface to perform the communication access to the imaging apparatus. Preferably, the controller transmits a signal to and receives a signal from the imaging apparatus by the communication access. Furthermore, the touchscreen device as an information input device inputs modality information for recognition of the imaging apparatus. The program receiver transmits the input modality information to the server apparatus, and acquires the program according to the modality information from the server apparatus. | 10-02-2014 |
20140353512 | SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGE READOUT APPARATUS - A scanning optical system includes: a galvanometer mirror that reflects and deflects a light beam emitted from a light source, and an fθ lens that focuses the deflected light beam on a scanning target surface. The fθ lens is constituted by a first lens, which is a spherical lens having a positive power, a second lens, which is a spherical lens having a negative power, a third lens, which is a spherical lens, and a fourth lens, which is a spherical lens having a positive power, provided in this order from the side of the galvanometer mirror. The scanning optical system satisfies Conditional Formula (1) below: | 12-04-2014 |
20150060679 | SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGE READOUT APPARATUS - A scanning optical system includes: a galvanometer mirror that reflects and deflects a light beam emitted from a light source, and an fθ lens that focuses the deflected light beam on a scanning target surface. The fθ lens is constituted by a first lens, which is a spherical lens having a positive power, a second lens, which is a spherical lens having a negative power, a third lens, which is a spherical lens having a negative power, a fourth lens, which is a spherical lens having a positive power or a negative power, and a fifth lens, which is a spherical lens having a positive power, provided in this order from the side of the galvanometer mirror. The scanning optical system satisfies Conditional Formula (1) below: | 03-05-2015 |
20150078522 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND ACCESS CONTROLLER FOR COMMUNICATION ACCESS - An X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray imaging apparatus and an access controller, which controls communication access of the X-ray imaging apparatus having an electronic cassette for forming an X-ray image and wirelessly transmitting the X-ray image. Before the electronic cassette starts transmitting the X-ray image, a priority request signal for priority of the first radio communication channel to the electronic cassette over a portable terminal device of radio communication is received. Upon receiving the priority request signal, presence of the portable terminal device is checked, in which a radio communication channel of overlap of frequency on the first radio communication channel is used. In presence of the portable terminal device with the overlap, the portable terminal device is regulated in communication regulation while the electronic cassette transmits the X-ray image. Also, the X-ray imaging apparatus is communicable by use of a communication network in wireless communication connection. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078529 | PORTABLE RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND PORTABLE RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - A portable X-ray imaging apparatus has an electronic cassette and a console capable of receiving an imaging order. The console has a wireless communication section, a trigger signal obtaining section, a connection determining section, a switching section, and a delivery requesting section. The wireless communication section receives radio waves and connects itself to an access point (AP). The trigger signal obtaining section obtains a trigger signal while the mobile radiography unit stands still. At the time of obtaining the trigger signal, the connection determining section determines one of the APs as an appropriate AP based on field intensity. The switching section switches the connection to the appropriate AP. Then, the delivery requesting section transmits a delivery request for the imaging order. | 03-19-2015 |
20150087978 | COMPLEX DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, COMPLEX DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND COMPLEX DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE-GENERATING METHOD - An optimal value calculator calculates, based on angle information obtained from a first angle sensor provided in an ultrasound probe, the direction of transmission of an ultrasonic beam transmitted from the ultrasound probe, and the radiation source optimal angle of a radiation source at which the direction of radiation from the radiation source is substantially parallel to the calculated direction of transmission of the ultrasonic beam and the optimal detection angle of a radiographic image generator at which the normal of a detection surface of the radiographic image generator is substantially parallel to the calculated direction of transmission of the ultrasonic beam. | 03-26-2015 |