Bed for capturing radiation image and radiation image capturing system

• US 8,113,712 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanabe, Tsuyoshi, Kito, Eiichi, Yoshimi, Takuya, Kuwabara, Takeshi, Ueta, Kazuharu, Iriuchijima, Makoto, Ohta, Yasunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Midkiff, Anastasia
• Application Number:
  US12/659,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20100208871A1
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• Field of Search: 378/98.8, 378/189, 378/190, 378/208, 378/209, 560/0, 560/1, 250580-584, 250/370.01, 250/370.08, 250/370.09, 250/371
• US Class Current: 378/189
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/548 Remote control of the apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 13/00 Operating tables; Auxiliary appliances therefor illumination of operating tables F21L, F21S or F21V ; adjustability of tables in general A47B9/00; tables for radiation diagnosis A61B6/04, drainage or irrigation pans, bags, or attachments A61G7/02, A61G7/0503
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2210/50 for radiography
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 42/04 Holders for X-ray films
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 31/49 Pick-up adapted for an input of electromagnetic radiation other than visible light and having an electric output, e.g. for an input of X-rays, for an input of infrared radiation

Abstract

A radiation detecting cassette is disposed in a desired position between a bed and a patient in an operating room. After a detector-side connector and a bed-side connector are connected to each other by a cable, an image capturing apparatus captures and records radiation image information of the patient in a radiation detector. The recorded radiation image information is transmitted from a transceiver of the bed to a console by way of wireless communications in a communication range selected by a selector of the bed, then processed by the console, and transmitted to a display device, which displays a radiation image based on the supplied radiation image information.

Claims

1. A bed for capturing a radiation image of a subject, comprising:

a bed-side connector for being connected by a wired link to a detector-side connector of a radiation detector for detecting radiation image information of the subject;

a communicating unit for receiving the radiation image information detected by the radiation detector through said detector-side connector and said bed-side connector which are connected to each other; and

a wireless communicating unit for transmitting the radiation image information received by said communicating unit to an external device by way of wireless communications, wherein

the bed comprises the wireless communicating unit and a selector which selects a communication range establishing communication between the wireless communicating unit and the external device, and

the radiation image information is transmitted from the wireless communicating unit to the external device in the selected communication range.

2. A bed according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communicating unit comprises a directional antenna rotatable around a shaft or a phased array antenna capable of being controlled to have directionality in the communication range.

3. A bed according to claim 1, wherein the bed comprises a base disposed on a floor of an operating room, a support standing upright on the base, and a top panel which is supported by the support and on which the subject is set, and

the wireless communicating unit is disposed on the support.

4. A bed according to claim 3, wherein the support is positioned inside the top panel in a plan view.

5. A radiation image capturing system comprising:

a radiation detector for detecting radiation image information of a subject;

a bed for capturing a radiation image of the subject, said bed including a bed-side connector for being connected by a wired link to a detector-side connector of said radiation detector;

a communicating unit disposed on said bed for receiving the radiation image information detected by said radiation detector through said detector-side connector and said bed-side connector which are connected to each other;

a wireless communicating unit disposed on said bed for transmitting the radiation image information received by said communicating unit to an external device by way of wireless communications; and

a processor, provided as said external device, for receiving and processing the radiation image information transmitted from said wireless communicating unit, wherein

the bed comprises the wireless communicating unit, and a selector which selects a communication range establishing communication between the wireless communicating unit and the external device, and

the radiation image information is transmitted from the wireless communicating unit to the external device in the selected communication range.

6. A radiation image capturing system according to claim 5, wherein the wireless communicating unit comprises a directional antenna rotatable around a shaft or a phased array antenna capable of being controlled to have directionality in the communication range.

7. A radiation image capturing system according to claim 5, wherein the bed comprises a base disposed on a floor of an operating room, a support standing upright on the base, and a top panel which is supported by the support and on which the subject is set, and

the wireless communicating unit is disposed on the support.

8. A radiation image capturing system according to claim 7, wherein the support is positioned inside the top panel in a plan view.