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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1999
Harry T. Garland, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
David D. Deer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and digital radiography system (,) detect type information concerning an anti-scatter grid (,), and store the information in a header (,) of a file (,) containing a digital x-ray image. A gleaning module (,) gleans relevant information from an identifier (,) on a physical medium (,) containing the anti-scatter grid (,). A retrieval module (,) retrieves an entry (,) corresponding to information gleaned from the identifier (,) and containing information concerning the anti-scatter grid (,) from a look-up table (,) in a computer memory (,). A storage module (,) stores the information in a header (,) of a file (,) containing the digital x-ray image. Additionally, a comparison module (,) compares type information concerning the identified anti-scatter grid (,) with type information for a correct anti-scatter grid for a procedure being performed. When the anti-scatter grid (,) being used is incorrect for the procedure, an alerting module (,) alerts an operator of the digital radiography system (,) of the error.