Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Shinichi Yamada

Takuya Sakaguchi

Masayuki Nishiki

Michitaka Honda

Takehiro Ema

Takayuki Tomisaki

Kenichi Komatsu

Kunio Aoki

According to information input through a keyboard, an X-ray irradiation condition selecting portion selects an X-ray irradiation condition, retrieves a correspondence table according to this X-ray irradiation condition so as to read out a gain control state suitable for an irradiation condition, and drives an analog SW setting portion. According to a signal from the analog SW setting portion, an integration capacity of an initial stage integration amplifier is changed over. Further, according to other mode, accumulated electric charge Q of a picture element Cp is read out on a signal line and converted to a voltage Vo by the integration amplifier. By appropriately determining a sampling time by a sample/hold circuit after electric charge is read out, an influence of a switching element resistance can be excluded from a voltage Vx. Therefore, the voltage Vx can be sample held stably. Further, because the integration circuit has a characteristic of damping a high frequency noise generated in the integration amplifier, the S/N ratio of the voltage Vx can be improved.

Radiation detector, radiation detecting method and X-ray diagnosing

A main body of a diagnostic table apparatus holds a supporting body slidably. The supporting body holds an X-ray tube and an X-ray flat panel detector so as to face each other. A tabletop of the diagnostic table is fitted rotatably to the main body of the diagnostic table apparatus via a hinge as a diagnostic table withdrawing mechanism. In case a chest radiography is to be taken in a standing position, the tabletop of the diagnostic table is withdrawn, an X-ray is irradiated from the back of the subject who faces an X-ray flat panel detector and puts his or her chin on a chin holder.

R/F and chest radiography compatible X-ray imaging table

A picture archiving communication system for storing, transferring various digital image data in a single or a plurality of hospitals includes a modality, a data base, a workstation as a display unit, and a network for connecting these components. The modality includes various diagnosis apparatuses for generating medical digital images, such as a film digitizer, an angiography apparatus, a CT scanner, an MRI system, a nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, and an electric endoscope. An examination ordering system is connected to the network. The workstation outputs computer-aided diagnosis data obtained by analyzing medical image data by means of a computer. This computer-aided diagnosis data includes the location, the type, and the degree of abnormality. In order to alarm an abnormality, the workstation displays a marker pointing the portion of the abnormal portion on the image, a text sentence representing the details of the abnormality. The computer-aided diagnosis data is obtained before its output is requested. The computer-aided diagnosis data is stored in a semiconductor memory until its output is requested.

Computer-aided diagnosis system for medical use

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Tochigi, Japan

Shinichi Yamada