Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomohiro Kawanishi

Hironori Yamashita

Keiko Uehara

Masaya Kawai

Yuichi Nishii

Hikaru Tanaka

Kenta Endoh

An apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a display control unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire information about an orientation of a detector. The detector is configured to capture a radiation image by detecting radiation, and includes a plurality of receptor fields for performing automatic exposure control and a mark enabling identification of the orientation of the detector. The display control unit is configured to display an icon related to the detector on a display unit based on the acquired information about the orientation of the detector.

Control apparatus, control method, radiation imaging system, and storage medium

A radiographing system includes a radiation generation apparatus emitting a radiation, a radiation detection apparatus detecting the radiation to generate a radiographic image, and a radiographing apparatus controlling operation of the radiation detection apparatus by communicating with the radiation detection apparatus. The radiographing system further includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about the radiation detection apparatus, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the radiation detection apparatus includes an automatic exposure control (AEC) function, based on the information about the radiation detection apparatus acquired by the acquisition unit.

Radiographing system, radiographing method, and storage medium

A control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect switching between a plurality of radiation detection apparatuses, each of the plurality of radiation detection apparatuses being configured to capture a radiographic image through detection of radiation and including a plurality of receptor fields for performing automatic exposure control, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding one of the plurality of radiation detection apparatuses to be used for image capturing in a case where switching to the one of the plurality of radiation detection apparatuses has been detected, and a selection unit configured to select one or more of the plurality of receptor fields of the one of the plurality of radiation detection apparatuses to be used for the image capturing based on the acquired information and information of a subject as an image capturing target and information of a part of the subject to be imaged.

Control apparatus, control method, radiographic imaging system, and storage medium

A radiation imaging system operable to generate a plurality of radiation images based on different radiation energies, comprises: a communication unit configured to obtain at set communication intervals a temperature of a radiation tube by communication with a radiation generating unit; and a control unit configured to control, based on comparison of the temperature obtained at the communication intervals and a change rate of the temperature and respectively set threshold ranges, an operation for maintaining a driving state of the radiation tube or execution of image processing for obtaining a substance amount of a substance that forms an object using the plurality of radiation images.

Radiation imaging system, control apparatus, control method of radiation imaging system, and storage medium

A radiation imaging system comprises a plurality of imaging apparatuses configured to generate images based on radiation emitted from a radiation generator, and a control apparatus configured to communicate with the plurality of imaging apparatuses. Each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses generates imaging information with a smaller data size than an image obtained by an imaging operation based on the image. The control apparatus acquires the imaging information from each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and selects, from the plurality of imaging apparatuses based on the imaging information, an imaging apparatus from which an image obtained by an imaging operation is acquired.

Radiation imaging system, imaging apparatus, control apparatus, and methods of controlling the same

A radiation imaging system including an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a radiographic image based on radiation, an image processing setting unit configured to set multiple types of image processing for a specific imaging procedure, an image processing unit configured to perform the multiple of types of image processing set by the image processing setting unit on a radiographic image acquired in the specific imaging procedure to generate multiple radiographic images, and an association setting unit configured to set whether the multiple radiographic images generated by the image processing unit are to be associated with one another.

Radiation imaging system, radiation imaging method, control apparatus, and computer-readable medium

A radiation imaging system includes a plurality of imaging apparatuses configured to generate images based on radiation emitted from radiation generating apparatuses configured to perform radiation irradiation and a control apparatus configured to communicate with the plurality of the imaging apparatuses. The control apparatus comprises: an obtainment unit configured to obtain imaging information from each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select one imaging apparatus from the plurality of imaging apparatuses based on the imaging information obtained by the obtainment unit, and an image obtainment unit configured to obtain an image from the imaging apparatus selected by the selection unit, and the control apparatus further comprises a setting unit configured to set an imaging apparatus from which imaging information is obtained by the obtainment unit.

Radiation imaging system, method of controlling the same, control apparatus, and storage medium

Provided is a radiographing system that can efficiently generate a plurality of radiographic images having undergone plural types of image processing and can separately store the plurality of radiographic images. The radiographing system includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a radiographic image based on radiation transmitted through a subject, an image processing setting unit that sets plural types of image processing to a specific imaging procedure, an image processing unit that executes the plural types of image processing set by the image processing setting unit on a radiographic image acquired by the specific imaging procedure to generate a plurality of radiographic images, and an output unit that outputs, to a storage device, the plurality of radiographic images generated by the image processing unit separately according to a type of the image processing.

Radiographing system, radiographing method, control apparatus, and storage medium

A control apparatus includes a changing unit which changes the sequence of a plurality of imaging examination information, based on a user operation, displayed based on an imaging sequence on an imaging control screen, and a control unit which controls at least one of a radiation detector and a radiation generation unit which are associated with imaging examination information as an imaging target based on the sequence changed by the changing unit.

Control apparatus, operation method for control apparatus, and storage medium

To provide a technique which can reduce a working load and a mistake of the operation when introducing a radiation detector, a control apparatus has: a display control unit for causing a display unit to display a selecting screen for presenting a list of registered radiation detectors and receiving a selection from the list; and an associating unit for associating in such a manner that when an unregistered radiation detector is registered, imaging information regarding a radiation imaging associated with the radiation detector selected through the selecting screen is associated with the unregistered radiation detector.

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Tachikawa, Japan

Tomohiro Kawanishi