Hitachi Medical Corporation

Akira Kuba

Hironori Ueki

Ken Ueda

Rika Baba

Hiroyuki Kawai

Takashi Ishiguro

Koichi Koike

Ken Ishikawa

Nobuhisa Kasagima

Between an X-ray generating system and an X-ray image detecting system arranged opposite to the X-ray generating system, an examination object supporting system is arranged and contains a straight movement table provided on a rotary table supported by a rotary table supporting member, and an examination object supporting member for supporting the examination object under either a standing position or a sitting position on the straight movement table. While the examination object is rotated by the rotary table, the examination object is continuously moved (reciprocating movement) by the straight movement table along a direction parallel to the rotation plane, and X-ray images of the examination object are acquired along a plurality of directions during both the rotating operation and the moving operation. As a result, both an X-ray tomographic image and a three-dimensional image (stereoscopic image) of a wider area than a viewing field of an X-ray I.I. can be acquired. Since the viewing fields of the X-ray tomographic image and of the 3-dimensional image can be employed, both diagnostic performance and also a diagnostic efficiency with respect to a large organ such as a lung can be improved.

X-ray examination apparatus and imaging method of X-ray image

An X-ray apparatus in which a mean value of a weighted histogram obtained by multiplying a histogram of numbers of data corresponding to image intensities in a reference image which is an X-ray image picked up in an X-ray fluoroscopy mode and a weighting function whose variable depends on the image intensities is arithmetically determined for controlling an output power of an X-ray tube so that the mean value of the integrated histogram approaches a predetermined value.

X-ray control method and x-ray apparatus

An X-ray apparatus acquires an X-ray image of an object by radiating X-rays to the object and includes an X-ray radiator for radiating X-rays to an object. An imager acquires an X-ray image of the object and radiation dose controller controls the radiation dose so as to acquire an X-ray image having a predetermined X-ray relative noise level on the basis of an image level of a predetermined area in the X-ray image.

X-ray apparatus

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Nagareyama, Japan

Akira Kuba