Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic, Inc.

Konica Corporation

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta & Medical Graphic, Inc.

Mamoru Umeki

Kazuhiro Kido

Makoto Horiuchi

Makoto Sumi

Akira Taguchi

Kouji Amitani

Masaya Shimoji

Youichi Ono

Wataru Motoki

Masakazu Andou

Jiro Okuzawa

Masayuki Nakazawa

Sumiya Nagatsuka

Hisashi Yonekawa

Hirotaka Hara

Tomonori Gido

Mitsuo Kaburagi

Hiroshi Namekawa

Takehiro Shiraishi

Wataru Tachikawa

Yoshio Ochiai

The console selects one radiographing order information item from the radiographing order information list stored in the storing section. A step is taken to determine whether or not the one selected radiographing order information item has a predetermined relationship with the other radiographing order information, and the permission of additional selection is granted only to the radiographing order information having a predetermined relationship.

Radiation image radiographing system, control apparatus, radiation image detecting apparatus and management apparatus

A diagnosis aiding system that photographs an examination subject without a photographing order and generates image data of the examination subject, and thereafter links the image data with the examination subject, includes: an image generating unit that photographs an examination subject and generates data of a photographed image of the examination subject; a switching operation unit to input switching information on an examination subject; and a controller that stores one or more photographed images, of a single examination subject, generated by the image generating unit between input of preceding switching information and input of subsequent switching information via the switching operation unit, linking the one or more photographed images with examination subject information on the single examination subject.

Diagnosis aiding system

A control device of a breast image radiographing apparatus relating to the present invention controls a driving device, in response to a press-down of a position adjustment switch of an input device, so as to adjust the position of a subject table. The position of compression board is adjusted by the operator such as a radiographing technician, the subject H is pressed and fixed, and when the enlargement factor of the phase contrast radiographing is inputted through the input device, the control device controls a driving device according to the positions of the subject table and the compression board and the inputted enlargement factor, so as to make a holding member ascend and descend and thereby the relative distances of the subject table to a radiation source and to a radiation image detector are adjusted to distances satisfying the enlargement factor=(R+R)/R

Radiographic imaging apparatus

A radiographing system wherein, in the 'Receiving' state of having received the radiographing order from one control terminal apparatus, an FPD does not receive other radiographing reservation, or in the 'Receiving' state of having received the radiographing order from one control terminal apparatus, a management server does not receive any other radiographing order.

Radiographying system and radiation image detecting device

A diagnosis system includes an image generating apparatus for forming photographed image data and a control apparatus, wherein the image generating apparatus includes an FPD having an image generating device for forming the photographed data, an image memory capable of storing the photographed image data formed by the image generating device in order of photographing and a communication sectioncapable of transmitting the photographed image data stored in the image memory to the control apparatus, and the control apparatus includes a communication sectionfor receiving the photographed image data transmitted from the communication sectionand a CPU for correlating the photographed image data received by the communication sectionwith patient information of the patient corresponding to the photographed image data.

Diagnosis system including correlating radiographed image data with patient information

An image forming apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium according to an inputted diagnostic image signal, including: a recording medium loading section capable of loading plural types of recording media; an exposing device for forming latent images by exposing with predetermined plural test exposure values; a developing device to form developed images on the recording medium; a density measuring device for measuring densities of the developed images; a memory device for storing predetermined density values correlated to the predetermined plural test exposure values; a selecting device for selecting a predetermined number of images among the developed images; and a calibration section for creating LUT that determines a relationship between exposure values and input image signals, based on measured densities of the selected predetermined number of images and stored predetermined density values correlated to the test exposure values.

Image forming apparatus and method thereof

An image processing apparatus including an exposing device, a developing device, a density measuring device to measure a density value of the developed film sheet, a calibrating device to calibrate the density value based on measured density values of a test image by the density measuring device and by an external density measuring device, a condition change detecting device to detect a condition change of the density measuring device, a correcting device to correct the density value, according to a result of detection by the condition change detecting device and the characteristics variation table showing variations of unmeasured values due to a condition change of the density measuring device, and a controlling device to control at least one of the exposing device and the developing device to optimize a relationship between diagnostic image data and film density according to the corrected density value.

Image processing apparatus, method, and program

A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed includes a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate, formed by a deposition method, having a thickness of 20 &#x3bc;m to 2 mm. The sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated in a space between a front member and a back member of the cassette, such that the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object through the front member, and the back member is positioned opposite and attached to the front member. The back and front members are attachable to each other and detachable from each other along a direction that is substantially the same as a growing direction of the needle imaging plate. The recording medium is coupled to the back member such that the recording medium and the base member move with respect to each other when the back member deforms.

Cassette reading processing device, cassette reading processing method and cassette

The present invention provides a heat developing method and a heat developing apparatus for stabilizing density and making image quality stable when executing a heat developing process by a rapid process of 10 seconds or less. The heat developing method is a method for heating a film with a heat developing photosensitive material coated on one side of a support base thereof for a heating time of 10 seconds or less and then cooling it, which opens the face side of the film with the heat developing photosensitive material coated, heats it from the support base side, and cools it from the supports base side by opening the side of the film where the heat developing photosensitive material is coated.

Heat developing method and heat developing apparatus

A photo-thermographic recording apparatus, comprises a film loading device capable of loading a sheet type photo-thermographic film, a conveyance device for conveying the photo-thermographic film from the film loading device, an exposing device for forming a latent image corresponding to an image signal onto the sheet type photo-thermographic film conveyed by the conveyance device, and a thermal developing device for visualizing the latent image formed onto the sheet type photo-thermographic film while heating the sheet type photo-thermographic, the thermal developing device including a heating device therein and a plurality of opposed rollers arranged opposite to the heating device so as to press the sheet type photo-thermographic film onto the thermal developing device, herein the plurality of opposed rollers is structured so that a foreign matter originating from an edge portion of the sheet type photo-thermographic film does not affect an image formed on the sheet type photo-thermographic film.

Photo-thermographic recording apparatus

A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed, is provided with a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate having a thickness of 20 &#x3bc;m to 2 mm, wherein the needle imaging plate are formed by a deposition method; a front member through which the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object; and a back member positioned opposite to the front member; wherein the front and back members are relatively attached to each other so as to form an accommodation space in which the sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated or detached from each other and the attaching or detaching direction of the front and back members is substantially the same direction with a growing direction of the needle imaging plate.

A density adjustment method for adjusting a density of a diagnostic image, having the steps of; exposing an image; developing the latent image; measuring a density of the developed image; creating a lookup table for relating the diagnostic image data and amount of exposure so as to form a density specified by the diagnostic image data; and correcting at least one of an exposure condition and a development condition to ensure that the next film has the optimized density, based on the difference between the measured density of a partial area of the film, and a density for comparison; wherein, a density of a prescribed area in a test exposure image is used as the density for comparison; while the exposure amount is used for exposing the partial area of the film at the time of forming a diagnostic image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program

An image forming apparatus includes an exposure portion having a light source, for forming a latent image on a photothermographic imaging material by exposing a light beam, a thermal development portion having a heating portion for thermally developing by heating the photothermographic imaging material on which the latent image is formed, and a cooling and conveying portion for conveying and cooling the thermally developed photothermographic imaging material, a temperature detecting member for detecting at least one of a temperature of a predetermined portion concerning the cooling and conveying portion, and a temperature in a vicinity of the exposure portion, and a control unit for controlling a factor relating to thermal development on a basis of the temperature detected by the temperature detecting member.

Thermal developing image forming apparatus and method for photothermographic imaging material

The problem of the present invention is to clear the packaging material and the presence/absence detecting method of the residual photothermographic image recording sheet, which are improved so that the concave section or the notched section provided on the bottom plate does not exercise a bad influence, caused by the exhalation of the organic solvent, on the recording sheet stacked on the lowermost position. Packaging material of the recording sheets, having a detecting means of the recording sheet, wherein there is provided the concave section or the notched section on a section where a part of a vacuum head comes into contact with a bottom plate located on a bottom section of the packaging material, and wherein there is arranged a filler formed with a soft material having air permeability and neither absorbs nor transmits organic solvent, in the concave section or the notched section.

Packaging material of photothermographic image recording sheet and detecting method of presence/absence of residual photothermographic image recording sheet

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Mamoru Umeki