Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kazuhiro Katada

Toshihiro Rifu

Kiyoshi Nagata

By providing an apparatus unit replacement assisting method, in which, upon receipt of a request from a first user to replace a first unit comprising part of an apparatus with a second unit, the second unit is offered to the first user at a price after the deduction of the trade-in price of the first unit, and maintenance is performed on the first unit taken from the first user for trade-in, so that the first unit in maintenance status is offered to a second user who wishes replacement with the first unit at a price lower than the price of the first unit when newly purchased, it is possible to reduce the cost incurred when replacing a unit in a CT apparatus or the like on the part of the user, such as a hospital, and facilitate the management of the production line of the apparatus and the dispatch of service persons on the part of the manufacturer while making a contribution to environmental improvement.

Apparatus unit replacement assisting method and system

An X-ray computer tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a data collection apparatus that collects X-ray signals from the X-ray detector repeatedly, a shutter mechanism that is arranged between the X-ray tube and a subject in order to convert an X-ray into a pulse-like X-ray and is constituted such that a ratio of a shutter open period and a shutter close period is variable, a restructuring unit that restructures image data on the basis of the collected X-ray signals, and a control unit that controls the shutter mechanism in order to change the ratio of a shutter open period and a shutter close period during a helical scan.

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Aichi-gun, Japan

Kazuhiro Katada