Fujifilm Corporation

Tomoki Inoue

Hiroki Nakayama

Kaku Irisawa

Katsuya Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Okada

Keiji Tsubota

Takeyasu Kobayashi

Takahisa Arai

Takashi Aoki

Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Tomoyuki Kawai

Shinji Otokuni

Yasunori Ohta

Naoto Iwakiri

Seiji Tanaka

Hiromi Ishikawa

Dai Murakoshi

Atsushi Hashimoto

Hisashi Endo

Tetsuro Ashida

Masakazu Fukuyo

Takehiro Kouguchi

Kenji Takada

Haruyasu Nakatsugawa

Mikio Watanabe

Ryosuke Ogura

Hiroshi Endo

Hiroaki Yamamoto

Masato Hattori

Masafumi Inuiya

Tomonari Sendai

Yukiya Miyachi

Fumito Nariyuki

Nobuhiko Ogura

Yuzo Aoshima

Atsushi Osawa

Shinsuke Noguchi

Shinji Uya

Masayoshi Matsuura

Rika Tashiro

Atsuhiko Ishihara

Noriko Kawamura

Tetsurou Ebata

Takatsugu Wada

Hiroyasu Ishii

Kenji Takata

Kazuoki Komiyama

Takeshi Okubo

Kousuke Takahashi

Takahiko Mizusawa

Riki Igarashi

A radiography system includes a radiography apparatus, a distance measurement device, and a processor. The processor generates subject posture information indicating a posture of a subject based on distance measurement information generated by the distance measurement device, generates positional relationship estimation information indicating a position, a posture, and/or an orientation of the subject with respect to the radiography apparatus by using the subject posture information and apparatus posture information indicating a posture of the radiography apparatus, and performs notification control of giving notification about capturing of the radiation image and/or imaging apparatus control with respect to the radiography apparatus based on the positional relationship estimation information.

Radiography system, operation method of radiography system, and radiography control apparatus

In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (), a normal screen display mode in which an ultrasound image and an operation panel for operating the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () are displayed on a monitor () is set until a first voice is recognized, and a transition mode for transition from the normal screen display mode to a full-screen display mode in which an operation of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () using a voice is possible and only the ultrasound image is displayed on the monitor () is set in a case where the first voice is recognized. Further, the full-screen display mode is set in a case where the voice is recognized in the transition mode. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () is returned from the full-screen display mode to the normal screen display mode in a case where a predetermined second voice different from the first voice is recognized in the full-screen display mode.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and processor for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a blood vessel extraction unit extracts a short-axis image of a blood vessel from an ultrasound image, an emphasis display unit displays in an emphasized manner the short-axis image of the blood vessel in the ultrasound image displayed on a monitor, and a movement amount detection unit detects a movement amount of the ultrasound image between adjacent frames on the basis of the ultrasound image. In a case where the movement amount is equal to or greater than a first threshold value after the emphasis display of the short-axis image of the blood vessel by the emphasis display unit is started, the apparatus control unit stops the emphasis display of the short-axis image of the blood vessel by the emphasis display unit. As a result, the short-axis image of the blood vessel included in the ultrasound image can be displayed in an emphasized manner without causing a user to feel discomfort even in a case where the entire ultrasound image is moved.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () performs switching between a normal screen display mode and a full-screen display mode by performing a mode switching operation on a diagnostic apparatus main body () or an ultrasound probe (), the normal screen display mode being a mode in which an ultrasound image generated by an image generation unit () and an operation panel for operating the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () are displayed on a monitor () and an operation of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () is performed via the operation panel, and the full-screen display mode being a mode in which only the ultrasound image generated by the image generation unit () is displayed on the monitor () and an operation of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () by using a voice is possible.

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which can accurately observe a target site regardless of a user' skill level even in a case where gas is accumulated in an intestine of a subject. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that performs transmission and reception of ultrasound beams using the ultrasound probe, and acquires a plurality of frames of ultrasound images which are continuous in time and in which a lower abdomen of a subject is imaged; a gas specifying unit that specifies a gas region or a gas condition on the basis of the ultrasound image; a gas change measurement unit that measures a change of the gas region or the gas condition specified by the gas specifying unit in a case where the ultrasound probe is pressed against the subject; and an imaging guide unit that provides guidance on ultrasound image capturing on the basis of the change of the gas region or the gas condition measured by the gas change measurement unit.

An ultrasound system () includes an ultrasound probe (), a mobile information terminal (), and an external apparatus (). The ultrasound probe () includes a transmission and reception circuit () that transmits an ultrasonic wave from a transducer array () and generates a sound ray signal, and a reception data generation unit that generates reception data before imaging based on the sound ray signal. The mobile information terminal () includes a camera unit () that acquires a view image. The external apparatus () includes a display controller () that displays an ultrasound image generated based on the reception data and the view image on an external monitor (), and an input device (). In a case where a probe freeze instruction is input from the input device (), the transmission of the ultrasonic wave from the transducer array () is stopped.

Ultrasound system and method of controlling ultrasound system

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () includes a urinary bladder extraction unit (), a feature quantity calculation unit (), a candidate frame extraction unit (), and a urine volume measurement unit (). The urinary bladder extraction unit () extracts a urinary bladder region from ultrasound images of a plurality of frames. The feature quantity calculation unit () calculates a feature quantity related to the bladder region. The candidate frame extraction unit () extracts, from the ultrasound images of the plurality of frames, an ultrasound image of a frame for which the feature quantity becomes a local maximum, as an ultrasound image of at least one candidate frame that serves as a candidate subjected to measurement. The urine volume measurement unit () analyzes an ultrasound image of a measurement frame selected from the ultrasound image of the at least one candidate frame to measure a urine volume.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, method for controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and processor for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

A puncture needle includes a shaft-part, a needle-tip-part disposed at a tip of the shaft-part, and processed-parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft-part along a length direction of the shaft-part and form an arithmetic progression in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle-tip-part, wherein among the processed-parts, an arrangement interval between a first-processed-part which is separated from the needle-tip-part by a predetermined distance and is closest to the needle-tip-part and a second-processed-part which is second closest to the needle-tip-part is equal to or less than a tolerance of the arithmetic progression, or a distance from the needle-tip-part to the first-processed-part which is closest to the needle-tip-part is equal to or less than the tolerance of the arithmetic progression and equal to a difference between the arrangement interval between the first-processed-part and the second-processed-part which is second closest to the needle-tip-part and the tolerance.

Puncture needle, ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

A puncture needle includes a shaft part, a needle tip part disposed at a tip of the shaft part, and a plurality of processed parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft part along a length direction of the shaft part and form a geometric progression with a geometric ratio of 2 in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle tip part, in which a distance between a reference point which is located on a needle tip part side from a first processed part closest to the needle tip part among the plurality of processed parts and is located at a predetermined distance from the needle tip part and the first processed part is equal to an arrangement interval between the first processed part and a second processed part which is second closest to the needle tip part.

An acoustic wave device includes: an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator; an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a reception signal of an acoustic wave from the photoacoustic wave generator; a first signal width detector that detects a first signal width of a portion of a predetermined signal strength in the insertion object image signal; and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates, in a case where the first signal width is larger than a second signal width, an insertion object display image signal of a width having a center at a peak position of the insertion object image signal and corresponding to the second signal width, and generates, in a case where the first signal width is smaller than the second signal width, an insertion object display image signal having a width smaller than the second signal width.

Acoustic wave device and control method of acoustic wave device

An ultrasound diagnostic system includes an ultrasound diagnostic device that creates test images of an intima-media thickness of a blood vessel, a workstation connected to the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a database that sequentially stores the test images created by the ultrasound diagnostic device. The workstation includes an input unit for allowing a user to input various kinds of information, a display unit, a workstation control unit that retrieves test images in past tests for the patient as past images from the test images stored in the database to make the display unit display the past images stored in the database as thumbnails, after a current image that is a test image of a current test are created for the patient by the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a test report creation unit that automatically creates a test report on the basis of the current image, and at least one past image selected by the user via the input unit from the past images displayed as the thumbnails on the display unit.

Ultrasound diagnostic system and method of controlling ultrasound diagnostic system

A control device including: wherein the processor controls a mammography apparatus that a breast, with radiation from a radiation source to capture a radiographic image of the breast such that normal imaging which emits the radiation with first energy from an irradiation position where an irradiation angle is 0 degrees to capture a normal radiographic image and tomosynthesis imaging which emits the radiation with either the first energy or second energy higher than the first energy at each of a plurality of irradiation positions having different irradiation angles and emits the radiation with the second energy at the irradiation position where the irradiation angle is 0 degrees to capture a plurality of low-energy projection images and a plurality of high-energy projection images are performed in a state in which the breast is compressed by the compression member.

Control device, control method, and control program

A control device includes a processor that controls a mammography apparatus that irradiates a breast with radiation to capture a radiographic image of the breast such that the radiation with either first energy or second energy higher than the first energy is emitted at each of irradiation positions having different irradiation angles while a radiation source is being moved to capture low-energy projection images with the first energy and high-energy projection images with the second energy, an irradiation time for which the radiation with the second energy is emitted is longer than an irradiation time for which the radiation with the first energy is emitted, and a focus size of the radiation source in a case in which the radiation with the first energy is emitted is larger than a focus size of the radiation source in a case in which the radiation with the second energy is emitted.

An ultrasound probeincludes a housinghaving a transducer array accommodation portionand a battery storage portionB, a transducer array accommodated in the transducer array accommodation portion, and a batterystored in the battery storage portionB. The housinghas an attachable and detachable battery coverthat covers the battery storage portionB, a nameplateis disposed on an inside or an outside of the battery storage portionB with respect to the battery coverin a visible manner, and a waterproof structure for restraining water from entering the nameplateis provided.

Ultrasound probe

An acoustic wave device includes an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator, a light source that irradiates the photoacoustic wave generator with light, an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a photoacoustic wave reception signal from the photoacoustic wave generator, and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates an insertion object display image signal having a center at a peak position where a signal strength of the insertion object image signal becomes a peak value, having a maximum width corresponding to a predetermined reference signal width, and having a signal strength corresponding to the peak value at the center.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoki Inoue