Method and apparatus for storing X-ray data in X-ray detection module

• US 9,597,052 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2014
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Sang-min, Park, Sung-kyu, Cho, Min-kook, Kang, Ji-hoon, Oh, Jin-hwan, Crocco, Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): SONG, HOON K
• Application Number:
  US14/314,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20150182184A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4233 using matrix detectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/488 involving pre-scan acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/544 dependent on patient size
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/566 involving communication between diagnostic systems

Abstract

A method for storing X-ray data includes acquiring the X-ray data by using an X-ray detection module; and transmitting all or some of the acquired X-ray data to other X-ray detection module which is different from the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data.

Claims

1. A method of storing X-ray data of an object, acquired from mutually communicable X-ray detection modules, the method comprising:

acquiring the X-ray data by using an X-ray detection module of the X-ray detection modules;

transmitting all or some of the acquired X-ray data to other X-ray detection module, of the X-ray detection modules, that is different from the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data; and

storing the all or some of the acquired X-ray data in a storage device of the other X-ray detection module.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

activating the X-ray detection module,

wherein the acquiring comprises acquiring the X-ray data by using the activated X-ray detection module, and

the transmitting comprises transmitting the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the other X-ray detection module which is an X-ray detection module different from the activated X-ray detection module.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the activating comprises:

activating the X-ray detection module which is included in a predetermined X-ray-detectable range depending on a size of the object.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the activating comprises storing some of the acquired X-ray data in a storage device of the activated X-ray detection module.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting comprises:

selecting the other X-ray detection module from the X-ray detection modules; and

transmitting the some or all of the acquired X-ray data to the other X-ray detection module, based on the selecting.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

grouping the X-ray detection modules into a plurality of groups, prior to the transmitting; and

selecting a group, from the plurality of groups, that does not include the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the acquired X-ray data to the selected group, the selected group including the other X-ray detection module.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

grouping the X-ray detection modules into a plurality of groups, prior to the transmitting, based on an external input; and

selecting a group from the plurality of groups, that does not include the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the selected group, the selected group including the other X-ray detection module.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

randomly grouping the X-ray detection modules into a plurality of groups, prior to the transmitting; and

selecting a group, from the plurality of groups, that does not include the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the selected group, the selected group including the other X-ray detection module.

9. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

outputting the acquired X-ray data from at least one among the activated X-ray detection module and the other X-ray detection module.

10. An apparatus for storing X-ray data of an object, acquired from mutually communicable X-ray detection modules, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to acquire the X-ray data by using an X-ray detection module, of the X-ray detection modules, transmit all or some of the acquired X-ray data to other X-ray detection module, of the X-ray detection modules, that is different from the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data, and store the all or some of the acquired X-ray data in a storage device of the other X-ray detection module.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to activate the X-ray detection module, prior to X-ray data acquisition, acquire the X-ray data by using the activated X-ray detection module, and transmit the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the other X-ray detection module which is an X-ray module different from the activated X-ray detection module.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to activate the X-ray detection module included in a predetermined X-ray-detectable range, depending on a size of the object.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to store some of the acquired X-ray data in a storage device of the X-ray detection module.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to select the other X-ray detection module from the X-ray detection modules, and transmit the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the other X-ray detection module which has been selected.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to group the X-ray detection modules into a plurality of groups prior to a transmission of the acquired X-ray data, select a group, from the plurality of groups, that does not include the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data, and transmit the acquired X-ray data to the selected group, the selected group including the other X-ray detection module.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to group the X-ray detection modules into a plurality of groups prior to a transmission of the acquired X-ray data, based on an external input, select a group from the plurality of groups, that does not include the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data, and transmit the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the selected group, the selected group including the other X-ray detection module.

17. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to randomly group the X-ray detection modules into a plurality of groups prior to a transmission of the acquired X-ray data, select a group from the plurality of groups, that does not include the X-ray detection module that has acquired the X-ray data, and transmit the all or some of the acquired X-ray data to the selected group, the selected group including the other X-ray detection module.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

an output device configured to output the acquired X-ray data from at least one among the activated X-ray detection module and the other X-ray detection module.