Network system for radiographing radiation-images

• US 20020152287A1
• Filed: 03/27/2002
• Published: 10/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Motoki, Wataru, Nakagawa, Masayuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,197,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4216 using storage phosphor screens
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32 Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device H04N1/38, H04N1/387 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device

Abstract

There is described a radiographic imaging system to read radiation image stored in a radiation-image storing sheet. The radiographic imaging system includes a plurality of controllers, each of which has an image-display section; a plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus to read a radiation image stored in a radiation-image storing sheet so as to generate image data; and a network to link the plurality of controllers and the plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus; wherein the controller requests a radiation-image reading apparatus to transmit the image data, read by the radiation-image reading apparatus, to the controller. The radiation-image reading apparatus reads a sheet-discrimination information in regard to each of the radiation-image storing sheets, and transmits the sheet-discrimination information to the plurality of controllers, and one of the controllers requests the radiation-image reading apparatus to transmit the image data to the controller, based on the sheet-discrimination information sent from the radiation-image reading apparatus.

Claims

1. A radiographic imaging system, comprising:

a plurality of controllers, each of which has an image-display section;

a plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus to read a radiation image stored in a radiation-image storing sheet so as to generate image data; and

a network to link said plurality of controllers and said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus;

wherein said controller requests a radiation-image reading apparatus to transmit said image data, read by said radiation-image reading apparatus, to said controller.

2. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus reads a sheet-discrimination information in regard to each of said radiation-image storing sheets, and transmits said sheet-discrimination information to said plurality of controllers, and one of said controllers requests said radiation-image reading apparatus to transmit said image data to said controller, based on said sheet-discrimination information sent from said radiation-image reading apparatus.

3. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein said controller receives an apparatus-discrimination information in regard to each of said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus, and said controller requests said radiation-image reading apparatus to transmit said image data to said controller, based on said apparatus-discrimination information sent from said radiation-image reading apparatus.

4. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein said controller reads each of sheet-discrimination information in regard to each of said radiation-image storing sheets, and each of said radiation-image reading apparatus correlates, stores and transmits each of said image data and said sheet-discrimination information read from said radiation-image storing sheet.

5. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus correlates and stores said image data and a sheet-discrimination information read from said radiation-image storing sheet;

and

wherein said controller searches out a radiation-image reading apparatus, which stores the image data correlated to the sheet-discrimination information as that read by said controller, from said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus, and then, said controller requests said radiation-image reading apparatus, searched out by said controller, to transmit said image data to said controller.

6. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein each of said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus transmits said image data to all of said plurality of controllers.

7. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein sheet-discrimination information is given to each of said radiation-image storing sheets;

and

wherein said controller reads and stores said sheet-discrimination information from said radiation-image storing sheets; and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus read said sheet-discrimination information from said radiation-image storing sheets; and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus correlates and stores said sheet-discrimination information read and said image data generated; and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus transmit said sheet-discrimination information and said image data to all of said plurality of controllers.

8. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein said plurality of controllers are prioritized in advance, and said radiation-image reading apparatus transmits said image data to a controller having a highest priority among receivable controllers within said plurality of controllers.

9. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus requested by said controller transmits said image data to the controller, which requested said image data to transmit.

10. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1, further comprising:

a server linked to the network;

wherein sheet-discrimination information is given to each of said radiation-image storing sheets; and

wherein said controller reads and stores said sheet-discrimination information from said radiation-image storing sheets; and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus read said sheet-discrimination information from said radiation-image storing sheets; and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus correlates and stores said sheet-discrimination information read and said image data generated; and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus transmit said sheet-discrimination information to said server;

wherein apparatus-discrimination information is given to each of said radiation-image reading apparatus; and

wherein said server correlates and stores said sheet-discrimination information and an apparatus-discrimination information in regard to said radiation-image reading apparatus which transmit said sheet-discrimination information; and

wherein said controller selects the radiation-image reading apparatus, which stores the image data which correlated to the sheet-discrimination information that is same to the sheet-discrimination information this controller read,on the basis of said sheet-discrimination information stored in this controller and sheet-discrimination information and apparatus-discrimination information stored in the server; and

wherein said controller requests the selected radiation-image reading apparatus to transmit the image data.

11. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1,

wherein any of the plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus can read the radiation-image storing sheet.

12. The radiographic imaging system of claim 1, further comprising:

a radiation-image reading apparatus of standing-posture or laying-posture type to includes a radiation-image storing sheet and to read radiation image stored in said radiation-image storing sheet so as to generate image data,

wherein the network further link to said radiation-image reading apparatus of standing-posture or laying-posture type.

14. The radiographic imaging system of claim 13,

wherein said server correlates and stores said image data and said apparatus-discrimination information in regard to each of said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus;

and

wherein said controller transmits an apparatus-discrimination information to said server, and requests said server to transmit said image data correlated with said apparatus-discrimination information to said controller.

15. The radiographic imaging system of claim 13,

wherein said image data and said apparatus-discrimination information are deleted after said image data is transmitted from said server to said controller.

16. The radiographic imaging system of claim 13,

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus reads sheet-discrimination information in regard to each of said radiation-image storing sheets;

and

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus correlates, stores and transmits said image data and said sheet-discrimination information, to said server; and

wherein said controller reads a sheet-discrimination information and transmits said sheet-discrimination information to said server; and

wherein said controller requests said server to transmit said image data to said controller.

17. The radiographic imaging system of claim 13,

wherein said image data and said sheet-discrimination information are deleted after said image data is transmitted from said server to said controller.

13. A radiographic imaging system, comprising:

a plurality of controllers, each of which has an image display section;

a plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus to read radiation image stroed in radiation-image storing sheets so as to generate image data;

a server to receive said image data transmitted from said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus and to store them; and

network to link said plurality of controllers, said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus and said server;

wherein the controller requests said server to transmit an image data to said controller.

18. A radiographic imaging system, comprising:

a plurality of controllers, each of which has an image display section;

a plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus to read radiation image stored in radiation-image storing sheets so as to generate image data and to read sheet-discrimination information corresponds to said radiation-image storing sheet;

a network to link said plurality of controllers and said plurality of radiation-image reading apparatus;

wherein said radiation-image reading apparatus correlates and stores said image data and said sheet-discrimination information;

wherein said controller reads sheet-discrimination information corresponds to said radiation-image storing sheet; and

wherein a controller get an image data transmitted from said network based on said sheet-discrimination information which are correlated to said image data and stored in said radiation-image reading apparatus and a sheet-discrimination information read by said controller, to said controller.