Radiographic image reading apparatus and diagnosis system

• US 20070253531A1
• Filed: 03/28/2007
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Umeki, Mamoru, Okuzawa, Jiro, Motoki, Wataru
• Application Number:
  US11/729,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20070253531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/62
• 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 6/465 adapted to display user selection data, e.g. graphical user interface, icons or menus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/467 characterised by special input means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/468 allowing annotation or message recording
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/469 for selecting a region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4416 related to combined acquisition of different diagnostic modalities, e.g. combination of ultrasound and X-ray acquisitions
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10116 X-ray image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/40 using histogram techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/92 based on global image properties

Abstract

According to a reading apparatus relating to the present invention, when keys of a ten-key pad of an operation section are pressed and a search ID is inputted, body part icon is displayed on a display section. When one part is selected from the displayed body part icon and a cassette is set, radiographic image recorded on a stimulable phosphor plate built in the cassette is read by an image generating section, and image data are generated at a sampling pitch predetermined according to the imaging part, and image processes such as an ROI extraction process and a gradation process are performed for the generated image data according to the imaging part. The processed image data, after information of the imaging part is written into a header portion, is transmitted to a control apparatus by a communication section.

Claims

1. A radiographic image reading apparatus which is used for a small-scale diagnosis system in which radiographing of a patient is conducted by using a cassette containing a stimulable phosphor plate without radiographing order information, and radiographic image of the patient, which is recorded in the stimulable phosphor plate in the cassette, is read by the radiographic image reading apparatus so as to generate a photographed image, and then the generated photographed image is correlated with patient information of the patient, the radiographic image reading apparatus comprising:

a displaying device for displaying a human body part icon indicating respective parts of a human body on a display screen;

a selecting device for selecting and inputting a part corresponding to a photographed part of the patient from the displayed body part icon;

a reading device for reading the radiographic image of the patient, which is recorded in the stimulable phosphor plate in the cassette and obtaining a photographed image; and

a processing device for processing the photographed image read by the reading device based on the part selected by the selecting device.

2. The radiographic image reading apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the processing device performs image processing including at least one of a ROI extraction process and a gradation process for the photographed image according to the part selected by the selecting device.

3. The radiographic image reading apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the processing device performs a process of writing information of the part selected by the selecting device as a supplementary information of the photographed image.

4. The radiographic image reading apparatus of claim 1,

wherein a touch panel is overlaid on the display screen of the displaying device and the selecting device includes the human body part icon displayed on the displaying device and the touch panel.

5. The radiographic image reading apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

a reduced image generating device for generating reduced image data based on the photographed image data generated by the processing device, and

a reduced image displaying device for displaying a reduced image based on the reduced image data generated by the reduced image generating device.

6. A diagnosis system in which radiographing of a patient is conducted by using a cassette containing a stimulable phosphor plate without radiographing order information, and radiographic image of the patient, which is recorded in the stimulable phosphor plate in the cassette, is read by a radiographic image reading apparatus so as to generate a photographed image, and then the generated photographed image is correlated with patient information of the patient, the diagnosis system comprising,

a radiographic image reading apparatus which is used for a small-scale diagnosis system, the radiographic image reading apparatus including:

a displaying device for displaying a human body part icon indicating respective parts of a human body on a display screen;

a selecting device for selecting and inputting a part corresponding to a photographed part of the patient from the displayed body part icon;

a reading device for reading the radiographic image of the patient, which is recorded in the stimulable phosphor plate in the cassette and obtaining a photographed image; and

a processing device for processing the photographed image read by the reading device based on the part selected by the selecting device,

the diagnosis system further comprising

a control apparatus,

wherein the reading apparatus further comprises;

a transmission instruction input device for inputting a transmission instruction to transmit the photographed image data to the control apparatus; and

a transmitting device for transmitting the photographed image data to the control apparatus according to the transmission instruction from the transmission instruction input device;

wherein the control apparatus comprises;

a receiving device for receiving the photographed image data transmitted by the transmitting device; and

a correlating device for correlating the photographed image data received by the receiving device with patient information of the patient corresponding to the photographed image data.

7. The diagnosis system of claim 6,

wherein a touch panel is overlaid on the display screen of the displaying device and the selecting device includes the human body part icon displayed on the displaying device and the touch panel.