Portable radiographic imaging apparatus and radiographic image management apparatus

• US 8,107,590 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2009
• Issued: 01/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishino, Naoyuki, Ohta, Yasunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Allen C.
• Application Number:
  US12/545,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20100054417A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: 378/98.8, 378/189, 378/62, 250/370, 250/370.09, 250/9
• US Class Current: 378/98.8
• 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 6/4233 using matrix detectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4464 the source unit or the detector unit being mounted to ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/462 characterised by constructional features of the display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/463 characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 42/04 Holders for X-ray films
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS

Abstract

There is provided a portable radiographic imaging apparatus including: an image output unit which detects a radiation which penetrates an object to be imaged and is irradiated on a surface to be irradiated of a casing, and outputs data of a radiographic image which represents a distribution of an amount of irradiated radiation; a first storage unit which stores the data of the radiographic image output from the image output unit; a display unit which displays an image; and a display control unit which allows the display unit to display a previously captured radiographic image which is associated with a current imaging, before the object to be imaged is imaged.

Claims

1. A portable radiographic imaging apparatus comprising:

an image output unit which detects a radiation which penetrates an object to be imaged and is irradiated onto a surface of a casing of the portable radiographic imaging apparatus, and outputs data of a radiographic image which represents a distribution of an amount of irradiated radiation;

a first storage unit which stores the data of the radiographic image output from the image output unit;

a display unit which displays an image; and

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a previously captured radiographic image associated with a current imaging, before the object to be imaged is imaged, after receiving a request to display the previously captured radiographic image,

wherein data of previously captured radiographic images is stored in the first storage unit, and wherein the display control unit searches the data of the previously captured radiographic images stored in the first storage unit for the data of the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging, reads out from the first storage unit the data of the previously captured radiographic image extracted by the searching, and causes the display unit to display the read out data as the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging.

2. The portable radiographic imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display control unit sets a condition of the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging based on attribute information indicating an attribute of the current imaging, and searches for the data of the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging based on the set condition.

3. The portable radiographic imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging is obtained by previously imaging the same imaged portion of the same object to be imaged as that of the current imaging.

4. The portable radiographic imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the previously-captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging is obtained by previously imaging the same imaged portion of an object to be imaged as that of the current imaging.

5. The portable radiographic imaging apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an input unit for inputting information, wherein when there are a plurality of previously captured radiographic images associated with the current imaging, the display control unit causes the display unit to reduce respective sizes of the plurality of previously captured radiographic images and to display the plurality of previously captured radiographic images in parallel, and if information is input via the input unit that indicates that one of the plurality of previously captured radiographic images displayed in parallel is selected, the display control unit causes the display unit to magnify and display the selected previously captured radiographic image.

6. The portable radiographic imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display unit has a display surface that is configured to display an image and that is expandable outside the casing, and wherein the display unit is disposed with respect to the casing so that the display surface can be accommodated inside the casing or folded up.

7. The portable radiographic imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display unit is a projecting unit that emits a projecting light for projecting and displaying information of an object to be displayed, so that the information of the object to be displayed is projected and displayed on an object irradiated with the projecting light.

8. A portable radiographic imaging apparatus comprising:

an image output unit which detects a radiation which penetrates an object to be imaged and is irradiated onto a surface of a casing of the portable radiographic imaging apparatus, and outputs data of a radiographic image which represents a distribution of an amount of irradiated radiation;

a first storage unit which stores the data of the radiographic image output from the image output unit;

a display unit which displays an image;

a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a previously captured radiographic image associated with a current imaging, before the object to be imaged is imaged, after receiving a request to display the previously captured radiographic image; and

a communication unit configured to communicate with a radiographic image management apparatus having a second storage unit which stores data of previously captured radiographic images,

wherein the display control unit sets a condition of the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging based on attribute information indicating an attribute of the current imaging, notifies the radiographic image management apparatus of the set condition via the communication unit, and requests the radiographic image management apparatus to transmit the data of the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging, and

wherein the display control unit receives, from the radiographic image management apparatus via the communication unit, data of the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging from among the data of the previously captured radiographic images stored in the management apparatus, and causes the display unit to display the received data as the previously captured radiographic image associated with the current imaging.