Radiation image capturing system

• US 8,295,439 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2009
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Yonekawa, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Song, Hoon
• Application Number:
  US12/993,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20110069814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,331 Days
• Field of Search: 378/116, 378/115, 378/62, 378/189, 378/196, 378197-198
• US Class Current: 378/116
• 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 6/4216 using storage phosphor screens
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4233 using matrix detectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4283 characterised by a detector unit being housed in a cassette
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/467 characterised by special input means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/542 involving control of exposure
• 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

Abstract

Provided is a radiation image capturing system wherein image capturing conditions can be appropriately set up for a radiation generating apparatus associated with a bucky device in an environment ready for capturing images by inserting either a CR cassette or an FPD cassette into the bucky device which can accept both a CR cassette and an FPD cassette. The radiation image capturing system is equipped with a radiation generating apparatus, a bucky device a portable FPD cassette, a CR cassette, and a console having a display section for displaying icons corresponding to the usable bucky device and the portable FPD cassette.

Claims

1. A radiation image capturing system comprising:

a radiation generating apparatus to emit radiation;

a bucky device associated with the radiation generating apparatus in advance;

a portable FPD cassette which can capture a plurality of radiation images of an object successively in a state loaded on the bucky device or by itself;

a CR cassette which can store a radiation image of an object in a state loaded on the bucky device or by itself; and

a console including a display section to display each icon corresponding to each of the usable bucky device and portable FPD cassette, the console which can communicate with the bucky device, the portable FPD cassette, and the radiation generating device, wherein

the bucky device notifies the console the type of cassette loaded when either one of the cassette of the portable FPD cassette or the CR cassette is loaded; and

when the icon corresponding to the bucky device is selected from the icon displayed on the display section, the console starts the radiation generating apparatus associated with the selected bucky device and controls the radiation generating apparatus to emit radiation from the radiation generating apparatus with a different emission amount according to the type of the loaded cassette notified from the bucky device.

2. The radiation image capturing system of claim 1, wherein the console displays the icon corresponding to the bucky device in a different manner according to whether or not the portable FPD cassette is loaded on the bucky device based on the notification and to control the radiation generating apparatus to emit radiation from the radiation generating apparatus with a different emission amount according to whether or not the portable FPD cassette is loaded on the bucky device.

3. The radiation image capturing system of claim 2, wherein when the icon corresponding to the portable FPD cassette is selected in a state where another icon corresponding to the bucky device in which the portable FPD cassette is not loaded is selected, the console controls the radiation generating apparatus associated with the bucky device to emit radiation of an emission amount to be emitted when the portable FPD cassette is loaded on the bucky device.

4. The radiation image capturing system of claim 2, wherein when the icon corresponding to the portable FPD cassette is not selected after a predetermined amount of time passes in a state where another icon corresponding to the bucky device in which the portable FPD cassette is not loaded is selected, the console controls the radiation generating apparatus associated with the bucky device to emit radiation of an emission amount to be emitted when the CR cassette is loaded on the bucky device.

5. The radiation image capturing system of claim 1, further comprising,

a storage section to store capturing order information including information of a patient to be an object of radiation image capturing and capturing condition, wherein

the console obtains at least one piece of the capturing order information from the storage section to display on the display section and when one piece of the capturing order information is selected, the console displays the icon on the display section.

6. The radiation image capturing system of claim 5 wherein the console adjusts the emission amount of radiation emitted from the radiation generating apparatus associated with the bucky device corresponding to the selected icon based on the capturing condition included in the selected capturing order information.

7. The radiation image capturing system of claim 1, wherein the console includes a warning section to give a warning when the icon is displayed and an icon corresponding to the bucky device is selected from the icon, but the type of cassette loaded on the selected bucky device and the set capturing condition do not match.

8. The radiation image capturing system of claim 7, further comprising,

a storage section to store capturing order information including the capturing condition, wherein

the console includes a warning section to give a warning, wherein the console obtains at least one piece of the capturing order information from the storage section to display on the display section, and when one piece of the capturing order information is selected, the console displays the icon and when the icon corresponding to the bucky device is selected from the icon, the warning section gives a warning when the type of cassette loaded on the selected bucky device and the capturing condition set in the capturing order information do not match.

9. The radiation image capturing system of claim 7 wherein the warning section is provided in the console.

10. The radiation image capturing system of claim 7 wherein the bucky device includes the warning section.