Abstract:
A mammography apparatus includes an imaging table, in which the imaging table is configured to attachably and detachably mount therein a scattered ray removal grid that removes scattered rays generated by the radiation transmitting through the breast, and in a case in which, in the imaging table, a direction connecting a chest wall side on which a chest wall of the subject is located and a side opposite to the chest wall is defined as a front-rear direction and a direction orthogonal to the front-rear direction is defined as a left-right direction, an opening for attaching and detaching the scattered ray removal grid is provided in the imaging table on at least any one of a left side surface or a right side surface of the imaging table.
Abstract:
A CT apparatus includes a plurality of imaging units, a rotation mechanism, and a CPU. The imaging unit includes a radiation source and a radiation detector. The rotation mechanism rotates the plurality of imaging units around a body axis of the subject while maintaining a disposition interval. An imaging control unit of the CPU controls operations of the plurality of imaging units and the rotation mechanism. An angular interval that is determined by a frame rate of the radiation detector and a rotation speed of the imaging unit and that defines an acquisition time of a projection image based on the radiation is the same for the plurality of imaging units. The plurality of imaging units have different phases in a rotation direction, and positions where the plurality of imaging units acquire the projection images are separated by a set angle that is less than the angular interval.
Abstract:
A radiographic imaging system includes a portable information terminal 16 and a console 18 which are plural control devices of which each one performs a control relating to imaging of a radiographic image and of which at least one is selectively used; and a terminal control unit 30 of the portable information terminal 16 and a control unit 50 of the console 18 that respectively function as a setting unit that sets, with respect to at least one of usage control devices which is control device to be selectively used, control content based on one usage control device in a case where the number of usage control devices is one, and sets control content based on a combination of plural usage control devices in a case where the number of usage control devices is plural.
Abstract:
An overall controller of a console acquires a radiation image of an imaging subject captured by a radiation image capture device for radiographic imaging. The overall controller also acquires body thickness information indicating a body thickness of the imaging subject in a direction in which radiation passes through. The overall controller also adds to the radiation image an assist line image that have would be expected to be obtained if a predetermined member had been disposed and captured at a position inside the imaging subject determined based on the acquired body thickness information, or at a position between the imaging subject and the radiation image capture device.
Abstract:
In an image analysis device, an image analysis method, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, it is determined whether a radiographic image is captured by rocking a rocking imaging grid. The image analysis device includes: a radiographic image acquisition section; a dosage data acquisition section that acquires dosage data indicating, in a time-series manner, a dosage of radiation rays exposed to a specific position in an imaging area in a specific period; and a determining section that determines whether the dosage data has a first feature indicating a dosage variation as a plurality of radiation absorbing bodies and a radiation transmitting body disposed between adjacent radiation absorbing bodies pass through a space between the specific position and a radiation source, and determines that the radiographic image corresponding to the dosage data determined to have the first feature is a rocking grid use image captured by rocking a rocking imaging grid.
Abstract:
An abnormal shadow detection section detects an abnormal shadow from each of two radiation images for displaying a stereoscopic image, obtained by imaging a subject from two different directions. A display control section determines all available combinations of abnormal shadows as abnormal shadows corresponding to each other between two radiation images in the case that a plurality of abnormal shadows are detected and for sequentially applying cursors to abnormal shadows of the determined combinations in two radiation images to sequentially display stereoscopic images marked with the cursors, in which the abnormal shadows are marked with the cursors, on the display section based on two radiation images marked with the cursors.
Abstract:
When displaying a stereo image of radiographic images, troublesome work for indicating an abnormal shadow with a three-dimensional cursor is reduced. An abnormal shadow detection unit 8c detects abnormal shadows from radiographic images for left and right eyes for displaying a stereo image. When a plurality of abnormal shadows are detected, an abnormal shadow specification unit 8d specifies abnormal shadows corresponding to each other in two radiographic images. A display control unit 8e gives a three-dimensional cursor to a predetermined abnormal shadow of the plurality of abnormal shadows, and displays a stereo image using the radiographic images for left and right eyes.
Abstract:
An X-ray imaging system performs pre-exposure and main exposure to take a single X-ray image. In the pre-exposure, an AEC circuit reads out a dose detection signal outputted from a detection pixel, and compares an integral value of the dose detection signal with a threshold value. When the integral value has reached the threshold value, the AEC circuit stops X-ray emission. A main exposure condition determination unit determines main irradiation time, being one item of a main exposure condition, based on irradiation time in the pre-exposure, an integral dose in the pre-exposure, and a necessary dose required for production of the X-ray image. After that, the main exposure is performed immediately with the determined main irradiation time. Normal pixels perform a charge accumulation operation continuously from the start of the pre-exposure to the end of the main exposure, and the X-ray image is produced from accumulated electric charge.
Abstract:
Besides normal pixels, a plurality detection pixels are arranged in an imaging surface of an FPD. In preliminary imaging, X-rays are emitted to an imaged body portion of a patient. The detection pixels receive the X-rays passed through the body portion, and output AEC detection signals. If an integral value of the AEC detection signals has reached a threshold value, X-ray emission is stopped and the preliminary imaging is completed. A main exposure condition determination unit determines a main irradiation time, being an irradiation time with the X-rays during the main imaging, based on an irradiation time with the X-rays during the preliminary imaging and the integral value of the AEC detection signals. The main imaging is performed using the main irradiation time. The normal pixels continue a charge accumulation operation over the preliminary imaging and the main imaging to produce an X-ray image for use in diagnosis.
Abstract:
A calibration jig is attached to a biopsy apparatus used in combination with a mammography apparatus, and that is for performing calibration to match three-dimensional coordinate systems of the mammography apparatus and the biopsy apparatus, and the calibration jig includes a pseudo biopsy needle that is a pseudo needle of a biopsy needle that is actually used in the biopsy apparatus; and a marker that has a plurality of parts each of which a positional relationship with a needle tip of the pseudo biopsy needle is known.