摘要:
Digital image signals are detected from radiation images of an object constituted of bones and soft tissues. A subtraction process is carried out with a predetermined parameter on the digital image signals, and a difference signal representing an image of part of the object is obtained. Each of images of a phantom, which has part exhibiting an equivalent radiation absorption coefficient to bones and/or part exhibiting an equivalent radiation absorption coefficient to soft tissues, is read out together with each object image. A value of the parameter is found, with which the image of either part of the phantom becomes erased in a subtraction image of the phantom obtained from subtraction processing. The value of the parameter, which has thus been found, is determined as an optimum value of the parameter. Subtraction processing is then carried out by using the optimum value of the parameter.
摘要:
Shading is eliminated in an image read-out apparatus for scanning a light beam on a recording medium carrying an image recorded thereon, obtaining light which carries the image by the scanning, and detecting the light by use of a photomultiplier to obtain read-out signals carrying the image. A shading elimination method comprises the steps of detecting the shading characteristics in the direction of main scanning of the light beam by changing the level of high voltage applied to the photomultiplier to a plurality of levels prior to the detection of the light, and storing the shading characteristics to correspond to the levels of the high voltage in a memory. The level of the high voltage is detected at the time of the detection of the light, and the shading characteristics that correspond to the detected level of the high voltage are read from the memory. The read-out signals are corrected in accordance with the shading characteristics read from the memory so that changes in the output of the photomultiplier caused by the shading are eliminated.
摘要:
A method of correcting unevenness in scanning lines in a light beam scanning apparatus having a mechanical scanning light beam deflector which rotates about a rotational axis to deflect a scanning light beam in a main scanning direction and a correcting light beam deflector for deflecting the scanning light beam in a sub-scanning direction, comprising steps of continuously detecting deflection of the rotational axis of the scanning light beam deflector to obtain nonperiodic deviation of the scanning light beam in the sub-scanning direction, storing the difference between a position of the scanning light beam detected at a starting point immediately before the effective scanning range and the nonperiodic deviation of the scanning light beam as a starting point deviation, storing the difference between a position of the scanning light beam detected at an end point immediately behind the effective scanning range and the nonperiodic deviation of the scanning light beam as an end point deviation, successively calculating deviation of the scanning light beam from a target scanning position in the middle of straight scanning on the basis of the stored starting point deviation, the stored end point deviation and the rotating angle of the scanning light beam deflector as periodic deviation, and determining the amount by which the scanning light beam is to be deflected in the sub-scanning direction by the correcting light beam deflector on the basis of the sum of the nonperiodic deviation and the periodic deviation.
摘要:
A sheet carrying an image stored therein is scanned by a light beam emitted by a light source. Light which is obtained by the scanning of the sheet and which carries the image is detected by use of a photomultiplier. When the level of output current of the photomultiplier becomes higher than a predetermined standard level, the intensity of the light beam is decreased so that the level of the output current of the photomultiplier does not exceed the predetermined standard level, thereby preventing the photomultiplier from being broken by light of high intensity.
摘要:
A light beam scanning recording apparatus for recording information on a recording material by modulating a laser beam emitted by a semiconductor laser and scanning the recording material with the modulated laser beam is constituted to modulate the laser beam by combining pulse number modulation or pulse width modulation with intensity modulation. Intensity modulation of the laser beam is conducted by controlling the drive current of the semiconductor laser. A plurality of semiconductor lasers may be provided for scanning with a coalesced laser beam obtained by coalescing laser beams emitted by the semiconductor lasers, and intensity modulation may be conducted by changing the number of the laser beams which are coalesced.
摘要:
A brushless motor includes a plurality of stator armature windings having winding frames with spaces defined therein, respectively, a rotor mounted on a rotatable shaft and having field poles rotatable with respect to the armature windings, and a plurality of rotor position detectors such as Hall-effect devices disposed in the spaces, respectively, and having output terminals connected respectively to the input terminals of other armature windings, for continuously varying the currents flowing through the other armature windings dependent on signals indicative of the magnetic fluxes from the field poles as detected by the rotor position detectors.
摘要:
In a light beam scanning apparatus, two photodetectors are positioned in spaced relation by a predetermined distance within a scanning region in a main scanning direction. The start and the end of scanning in the main scanning direction are detected by the photodetectors. The scanning speed of a main scanning means is controlled so that a predetermined number of pulses of a pulse signal having a predetermined period are input within the time between the start and the end of scanning in the main scanning direction. Or, a single photodetector is positioned within the scanning region, and the scanning time from the start of scanning to the photodetector is detected by use of the photodetector. The initial position of scanning is controlled so that a predetermined number of pulses of the pulse signal having a predetermined period are input within the scanning time.
摘要:
A metal mount of a galvanometer is secured to a plate made of an electrically conductive material via a thin insulating layer in electrically insulated relation to the plate. The thin insulating layer has a thickness within the range of about 10 .mu.m to about 500 .mu.m. The metal mount and the thin insulating layer are cylindrical and are secured to a cylindrical through hole formed in the plate. Or, the metal mount has an L-shaped cross-section. One section of the L-shaped metal mount is secured to the plate by use of bolts, and the other section thereof is secured to the galvanometer by use of screws. In this case, an insulation sheet is positioned between the one section of the L-shaped metal mount and the plate.
摘要:
In a system provided with a plurality of photomultipliers, the sensitivities of the photomultipliers relative to one another are detected by comparing the outputs of the photomultipliers generated under irradiation by light emitted from the same light source. The difference between the detected sensitivities relative to one another and predetermined sensitivities relative to one another is calculated, and the sensitivities of the respective photomultipliers are corrected so that the difference becomes zero.
摘要:
In a radiation image recording and read-out system in which a stimulable phosphor sheet is repeatedly used for recording radiation images, and noise developing due to residual radiation energy on the phosphor sheet is eliminated by exposing the phosphor sheet to erasing light prior to radiation image recording step, the level of residual radiation energy is detected, and the amount of exposure of the phosphor sheet to erasing light is controlled according to the detected level of residual radiation energy. The exposure amount is controlled to erase residual radiation energy to a level within the range between 0.01 and 0.0001 with the maximum of the originally stored radiation energy taken as 100.