| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7256392 |
Inspection method of radiation imaging system and medical image processing apparatus using the s |
August 14, 2007 |
| A phantom, adapted to be radiation-imaged to obtain a radiation image for evaluation in inspection of a radiation imaging system, is capable of performing both the quantitative evaluation and the visual evaluation of the radiation image easily with a low cost and increasing accuracy of t |
| 7250971 |
Charge read-out method and solid-state imaging device capable of shortening read-out time charge |
July 31, 2007 |
| A charge read-out method and a solid-state imaging device capable of shortening a read-out time of charges stored in a plurality of light receiving units arranged linearly are provided. The charge read-out method includes the steps of moving the charges, which are generated and store |
| 7250623 |
Method and apparatus for recording and reading out radiation images |
July 31, 2007 |
| One surface of a stimulable phosphor sheet supported at a position for image recording is exposed to radiation, and a radiation image is stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet. Image readout is performed from the side of the other surface of the stimulable phosphor sheet supported at |
| 7247873 |
Quality control system for irradiation apparatus |
July 24, 2007 |
| A quality control system for an irradiation apparatus includes a radiation image reading system. The radiation image reading system reads out a radiation image from a stimulable phosphor panel which is disposed in a predetermined position to receive irradiation of position check radiatio |
| 7112814 |
Method and apparatus for recording and reading out radiation images |
September 26, 2006 |
| One surface of a stimulable phosphor sheet supported at a position for image recording is exposed to radiation, and a radiation image is stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet. Image readout is performed from the side of the other surface of the stimulable phosphor sheet supported at |
| 7091512 |
Radiation image read-out apparatus |
August 15, 2006 |
| A radiation image read-out apparatus is provided with a line sensor which detects stimulated emission emitted from a radiation image convertor panel upon exposure to a line-like stimulating light beam extending in a main scanning direction and reads out a radiation image recorded on the |
| 7081632 |
Radiation image storage panel |
July 25, 2006 |
| A radiation image storage panel comprises a stimulable phosphor layer capable of emitting light when being exposed to stimulating rays, which cause the stimulable phosphor layer to emit the light in proportion to an amount of energy stored on the stimulable phosphor layer during exposure |
| 6927380 |
Radiation-image data readout apparatus and line sensor to be utilized therein |
August 9, 2005 |
| The charge read out efficiency of a line sensor utilizing a large photodiode is improved. A line sensor formed of a photoelectric converting portion utilizing a photodiode divided into a plurality of regions and having a potential inclination configuration wherein the potential wells |
| 6917026 |
Radiation-image readout apparatus and line sensor to be deployed therein |
July 12, 2005 |
| A radiation-image data readout apparatus in which the charge transferring time occurring during a readout operation utilizing a line sensor having a broad-width light-receiving portion is shortened is provided. A line sensor having two photodiode portions, each having a width of 100 um, |
| 6893157 |
Radiation image obtaining system and radiation image detector |
May 17, 2005 |
| A radiation image obtaining system that detects a radiation image of a subject by irradiation of radiation which has passed through the subject and a grid, in which a position of a radiation source with respect to a recording surface of a radiation image detector, and an angle of a centr |
| 6885020 |
Method and apparatus for image signal obtainment |
April 26, 2005 |
| In the obtainment of image signals by receiving emitted light, generated by a stimulable phosphor sheet due to irradiation thereof by an excitation light, at the light receiving surfaces of photoelectric conversion elements, then obtaining an electrical image signal based on the charges |
| 6861661 |
Radiation image read-out apparatus and image transmission apparatus |
March 1, 2005 |
| A linear stimulating ray source produces stimulating rays and linearly irradiates them to a portion of a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image has been stored. A photoelectric read-out system divides light, which is emitted from the portion of a front surface of the s |
| 6765226 |
Radiation image readout apparatus |
July 20, 2004 |
| A radiation image readout apparatus for reading out, by use of a line sensor formed of a plurality of photoelectric converting elements arranged in a straight line, a radiation image stored on a stimulable phosphor sheet etc., wherein the occurrence of a Moire effect in the final image i |
| 6740899 |
Method and apparatus for recording and reading out radiation images |
May 25, 2004 |
| One surface of a stimulable phosphor sheet supported at a position for image recording is exposed to radiation. A radiation image having thus been stored on the sheet is read out. Energy remaining on the sheet is released by irradiating erasing light to an entire area of the sheet with |
| 6724007 |
Radiation image read-out method and apparatus |
April 20, 2004 |
| Stimulating rays are linearly irradiated onto an area of a stimulable phosphor sheet, and light emitted by the sheet is detected with a CCD line sensor comprising photoelectric converting sections arrayed along the linear area of the sheet exposed to the linear stimulating rays. Accu |
| 6703637 |
Radiation image read-out method and apparatus |
March 9, 2004 |
| Stimulating rays are linearly irradiated onto an area of a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image has been stored by use of a stationary grid. Light emitted by the sheet is detected with a line sensor constituted such that a reciprocal of an array pitch of photoelectric |
| 6649918 |
Apparatus for reading radiation image information |
November 18, 2003 |
| Disclosed herein is a radiation image information reader equipped with two line detection sections. The photostimulated luminescent light emitted by irradiation of excitation light is detected by the two line detection sections. Also, the photostimulated luminescent light emitted from an |
| 6624439 |
Energy subtraction processing method and apparatus for data stored in stimulable phosphor materi |
September 23, 2003 |
| At least two stimulable phosphor sheets are superposed with an energy separation filter, which absorbs low energy components of radiation, intervening therebetween and are exposed to radiation carrying image information of an object, and radiation images of the object are stored on t |
| 6580525 |
Method of and system reading out image signal |
June 17, 2003 |
| A digital image signal is read out at a predetermined picture element density by causing a light beam to repeatedly scan a recording medium bearing thereon an image in a main scanning direction at a predetermined main scanning speed while moving the recording medium in a sub-scanning |
| 6528811 |
Method and apparatus for recording and reading out radiation images |
March 4, 2003 |
| A waiting time between when a radiation image of an object was stored on a stimulable phosphor sheet and when readout of the radiation image from the stimulable phosphor sheet is begun is set in accordance with an intensity of radiation after-glow, which continues to occur with the stimu |
| 6510194 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring transmitted-radiation image data |
January 21, 2003 |
| An entire detection area is divided into a plurality of division areas, and a single line sensor is disposed in each division area so that it is movable within each division area. While each line sensor is being moved within each division area by a moving unit, transmitted-radiation imag |
| 6455868 |
Radiation image storage panel read-out method and apparatus for performing method |
September 24, 2002 |
| A radiation image storage panel having rigidity, which is provided with a stimulable phosphor layer and on which a radiation image has been stored, is exposed to stimulating rays, which cause the radiation image storage panel to emit light in proportion to the amount of energy stored the |
| 6320930 |
Radiation tomography method and apparatus |
November 20, 2001 |
| A radiation tomography for photographing a radiation projected image of a subject by relatively rotating a radiation source which emits a conical radiation beam and a detector which detects the conical radiation beam transmitted through the subject, with respect to the subject. The r |
| 6278760 |
Radiation image forming method and apparatus |
August 21, 2001 |
| Cone-like radiation is irradiated from each of different directions of projection to an object, and projection image signals of different energy bands are acquired with respect to the object and each of the different directions of projection. Energy subtraction processing is performed on |
