Hitachi Medical Corporation

Mitsuru Ikeda

Hisatake Yokouchi

Yoichi Onodera

Fumitaka Takahashi

Koichi Koike

Ken Ishikawa

Shigeru Watanabe

Isao Horiba

Yoshihiko Iida

A digital radiography system having an X-ray source irradiating an object to be inspected with X-ray, an X-ray image intensifier tube which receives the X-rays which pass through the object and converts the received X-rays into an optical image, a video camera which picks up the output image and has different modes, an optical system including a plurality of lenses and disposed between the X-ray image intensifier tube and the video camera, an image processor which converts an output from the video camera into a digital image data, and an image display for displaying an X-ray image by reading out the digital image data from the image processor.

Digital radiography system having an X-ray image intensifier tube

A digital radiography system obtaining x-ray images of a patient body through an X-ray image intensifier tube and a video camera optically coupled with the X-ray image intensifier tube. The diameter of an input imaged size of the X-ray image intensifier tube is ranged from 254 to 457 mm, the diameter of an output image size of the X-ray image intensifier tube is ranged from 50 to 90 mm, and the ratio of the diameter of the output image size against the diameter of the input image size is ranged from 4 to 8.

A digital radiography system obtaining X-ray images of a patient body through an X-ray image intensifier tube and a video camera optically coupled with the X-ray image intensifier tube. The diameter of an input imaged size of the X-ray image intensifier tube is ranged from 254 to 457 mm, the diameter of an output image size of the X-ray image intensifier tube is ranged from 50 to 90 mm, and the ratio of the diameter of the output image size against the diameter of the input image size is ranged from 4 to 8.

In a picture image reading system having a scanning system for scanning the surface of a picture image medium with light beams, an optical system for condensing the light beams transmitted through or reflected from the picture image medium and dividing the light beam into a plurality of light beams, and a plurality of density readers respectively responsive to the plurality of light beam where each density reader reads a predetermined ranges of density signals different from the ranges read by the remaining density readers, the improvement comprising a device for so establishing the density signal ranges read by the readers that adjacent density signal ranges partially overlap one another; a detecting device responsive to the density signals from the plurality of readers for detecting density signals occurring in overlapping portions where the density signal ranges of adjacent readers overlap and providing an overlap signal indicative of the occurrence; and a synthesizing device responsive to the density signals read from the plurality of readers and the overlap signal for connecting the density signals from the plurality of readers to synthesize a composite density signal corresponding to the entire density range of the picture.

Picture image reading system

An image reader having a high sensitive detection system for detecting a variation in a first light quantity to generate a first output, a low sensitive detection system for detecting a variation in a second light quantity to generate a second output where the second light quantity is greater than the said first light quantity, and a signal composing circuit for receiving the outputs of the high and low sensitive detection systems, each of the detection systems being so disposed as to detect simultaneously or substantially simultaneously a ray bundle from a picture element of a picture, and the output of the signal composing circuit being (a) the output of the high sensitive detection system when the received light quantity is smaller than a threshold light quantity which can be detected with substantially the same degree of accuracy by both the detection systems or (b) the sum of (i) the output of the low sensitive detection system and (ii) the difference between the outputs of the detection systems at the threshold light quantity whereby a time-serial output of wide dynamic range is obtained.

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Mitsuru Ikeda