Radiation imaging system, power supplying apparatus, charging apparatus, and radiation imaging method

• US 8,265,225 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2010
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishino, Naoyuki, Yamazaki, Atsushi, Ohta, Yasunori, Katayama, Keizo
• Primary Examiner(s): Artman, Thomas R
• Application Number:
  US12/699,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20100202586A1
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: 378/91, 378/98, 378/98.5, 378/98.8, 378/102, 378/103, 378/165
• US Class Current: 378/98.5
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4283 characterised by a detector unit being housed in a cassette
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4291 the detector being combined with a grid or grating
• 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: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The present invention provides a radiation imaging system, a power supplying apparatus, a charging apparatus, and a radiation imaging method that can prevent misidentification of an imaging subject to be imaged without requiring a large-scale configuration. Namely, a power supplying apparatus which is detachably mounted to an electronic cassette is provided with a display section that displays imaging subject information associated with an imaging subject.

Claims

1. A radiation imaging system comprising:

a radiation imaging apparatus that images a radiation image represented by radiation that passes through an imaging subject; and

a power supplying apparatus, mounted detachably to the radiation imaging apparatus, and including a chargeable power supply section that supplies drive power to the radiation imaging apparatus, and a display section that displays an imaging subject information associated with the imaging subject.

2. The radiation imaging system according to claim 1, wherein the power supplying apparatus further includes a storing section that stores the imaging subject information, and

wherein the display section displays the stored imaging subject information.

3. The radiation imaging system according to claim 2, further comprising a charging apparatus including,

a charging section that charges the power supplying apparatus when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus, and

a writing section that writes the imaging subject information into the storing section when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus, before the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the radiation imaging apparatus.

4. The radiation imaging system according to claim 3, wherein the storing section further stores image information obtained by imaging performed by the radiation imaging apparatus, and

wherein the charging apparatus further includes a reading section that reads the stored image information when the power supplying apparatus is mounted.

5. The radiation imaging system according to claim 3, wherein the radiation imaging apparatus further comprises:

a transmitting section that, before the imaging subject is imaged, transmits the stored imaging subject information when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the radiation imaging apparatus;

a receiving section that receives the transmitted imaging subject information;

a determining section that determines whether the received imaging subject information is information that corresponds to the imaging subject; and

a process executing section that executes a predetermined process based on the result of the determination.

6. The radiation imaging system according to claim 5, wherein, when it is determined that the imaging subject information is not the information that corresponds to the imaging subject, the process execution section executes at least one of an imaging inhibition process or an occurrence of failure notification process as the predetermined process.

7. The radiation imaging system according to claim 5, wherein the determination section determines whether the received imaging subject information is the information that corresponds to the imaging subject by determining whether the imaging subject information matches with the imaging subject information written in the storing section.

8. The radiation imaging system according to claim 3, wherein the imaging subject information includes specific information for specifying the imaging subject.

9. The radiation imaging system according to claim 8, wherein the imaging subject information further includes information showing an imaging condition of the imaging subject.

10. The radiation imaging system according to claim 3, wherein the charging apparatus further includes a detachment inhibiting section that inhibits detachment of the power supplying apparatus when charging of the power supply section has not been completed when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus.

11. The radiation imaging system according to claim 3, wherein the charging apparatus further includes a communication section that performs communication through a power line of a commercial power source.

12. The radiation imaging system according to claim 1, wherein the radiation imaging apparatus is an electronic cassette.

13. A power supplying apparatus comprising:

a chargeable power supply section that supplies drive power to a radiation imaging apparatus that images a radiation image represented by radiation that passes through an imaging subject; and

a display section that displays imaging subject information associated with the imaging subject,

wherein the power supplying apparatus is mounted detachably to the radiation imaging apparatus.

14. A charging apparatus comprising:

a charging section that charges a chargeable power supply section of a power supplying apparatus when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus, the power supplying apparatus including,

the power supply section that supplies drive power to the radiation imaging apparatus that images a radiation image represented by radiation that passes through an imaging subject,

a display section that displays imaging subject information associated with the imaging subject,

a storing section that stores the imaging subject information; and

a writing section that writes the imaging subject information into the storing section when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus, before the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the radiation imaging apparatus.

15. A method for radiation imaging in a radiation imaging system including a radiation imaging apparatus that images a radiation image represented by radiation that passes through an imaging subject, a power supplying apparatus, mounted detachably to the radiation imaging apparatus, and including a chargeable power supply section that supplies drive power to the radiation imaging apparatus, a display section that displays imaging subject information associated with the imaging subject, and a storing section that stores the imaging subject information, a charging apparatus including a charging section that charges the power supplying section when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus, the method comprising:

writing the imaging subject information in the storing section by the charging apparatus when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the charging apparatus, before the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the radiation imaging apparatus;

transmitting the imaging subject information to the radiation imaging apparatus when the power supplying apparatus is mounted to the radiation imaging apparatus, before an imaging subject is imaged;

receiving the transmitted the imaging subject information;

determining whether the received imaging subject information corresponds to the imaging subject; and

executing a predetermined process based on a result of the determination.