Quality control system for medical diagnostic apparatus

• US 20030153814A1
• Filed: 03/27/2000
• Published: 08/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Eiji
• Granted Patent: US 6,934,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0271 using a remote monitoring unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• 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 6/56 Details of data transmission or power supply, e.g. use of slip rings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/566 involving communication between diagnostic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 1/1644 using an array of optically separate scintillation elements permitting direct location of scintillations G01T1/1645 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01T 1/2985 In depth localisation, e.g. using positron emitters; Tomographic imaging (longitudinal and transverse section imaging; apparatus for radiation diagnosis sequentially in different planes, steroscopic radiation diagnosis); using external radiation sources A61B6/02

Abstract

The quality control system includes a network, a plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses which exist on the network and have respective histories of evaluation results on specific items regarding quality of individual medical diagnostic apparatuses and a control device which exists on the network, stores all of the histories of the evaluation results that individual medical diagnostic apparatuses hold and controls them centrally. By this unified quality control system, quality control of a plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses connected to each other on the network can efficiently be performed.

Claims

1. A quality control system for medical diagnostic apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses having respective histories of evaluation results on specified items regarding quality of individual medical diagnostic apparatuses;

a control device which stores all of the histories of said evaluation results which respective medical diagnostic apparatuses hold to control the histories thereof centrally; and

a network onto which said plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses and said control device are connected.

2. The quality control system according to claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses comprises at least one of a medical image input device and a medical image output device.

3. A quality control system for medical diagnostic apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses;

a control device which stores all of histories of evaluation results on specified items regarding quality of individual medical diagnostic apparatuses to control the histories thereof centrally; and

a network onto which said plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses and said control device are connected.

4. The quality control system according to claim 3, wherein each of said plurality of medical diagnostic apparatuses comprises at least one of a medical image input device and a medical image output device.