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US 12,761,379 B2Granted
Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMotoki Tagawa
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Abstract
A radiation imaging apparatus includes: a notification device configured to notify a receptor field used in radiation imaging among a plurality of receptor fields capable of monitoring an irradiation radiation dose; and one or more controllers configured to, in a case where the irradiation radiation dose satisfies predetermined condition corresponding to the selected state of the receptor fields notified by the notification device, output a signal for stopping irradiation.
Claims15
A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC), the radiation imaging apparatus comprising:
- a flat panel radiation detector including an effective imaging area in which a plurality of radiation detection pixels are arranged;
- a display device provided on an outer surface of a housing of the radiation imaging apparatus, in a region different from a region corresponding to the effective imaging area on a radiation incident surface of the housing;
- and
- one or more controllers configured to control information displayed by the display device to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the display device is provided on the radiation incident surface of the housing, in an edge region outside a region corresponding to the effective imaging area.
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A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC), the radiation imaging apparatus comprising:
- a flat panel radiation detector including an effective imaging area in which a plurality of radiation detection pixels are arranged;
- a display device provided on an outer surface of a housing of the radiation imaging apparatus, in a region different from a region corresponding to the effective imaging area on a radiation incident surface of the housing;
- a plurality of markers provided on the radiation incident surface of the housing and respectively corresponding to the plurality of receptor fields, each of the plurality of markers being provided with identification information for identifying a corresponding receptor field;
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- one or more controllers configured to control information displayed by the display device to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the one or more controllers control the display device to display the identification information corresponding to a receptor field selected for AEC among the plurality of receptor fields.
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A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC), the radiation imaging apparatus comprising:
- a flat panel radiation detector including an effective imaging area in which a plurality of radiation detection pixels are arranged;
- a display device provided on an outer surface of a housing of the radiation imaging apparatus, in a region different from a region corresponding to the effective imaging area on a radiation incident surface of the housing;
- and
- one or more controllers configured to control information displayed by the display device to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the information about the AEC includes information about the plurality of receptor fields, and
- wherein the display device includes a plurality of display portions corresponding to the plurality of receptor fields, respectively, and
- wherein the one or more controllers control the display device such that only one or more of the plurality of display portions corresponding to at least one receptor field selected for AEC are lit while remaining display portions are extinguished.
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A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC), the radiation imaging apparatus comprising:
- a flat panel radiation detector including an effective imaging area in which a plurality of radiation detection pixels are arranged;
- a display device provided on an outer surface of a housing of the radiation imaging apparatus, in a region different from a region corresponding to the effective imaging area on a radiation incident surface of the housing, the display device being a touch panel display;
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- one or more controllers configured to control information displayed by the display device to display information about the AEC,
- wherein, in response to a touch operation on the display device indicating a desired receptor field, the one or more controllers change a receptor field selected for AEC among the plurality of receptor fields to select the desired receptor field.
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A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC), the radiation imaging apparatus comprising:
- a flat panel radiation detector including an effective imaging area in which a plurality of radiation detection pixels are arranged;
- a display device provided on an outer surface of a housing of the radiation imaging apparatus, in a region different from a region corresponding to the effective imaging area on a radiation incident surface of the housing;
- an operation device;
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- one or more controllers configured to control information displayed by the display device to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the one or more controllers sequentially change a receptor field selected for AEC among the plurality of receptor fields in accordance with an operation input to the operation device, and
- wherein the receptor field selected for AEC is changed by cycling through a plurality of predetermined selection states.
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A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC), the radiation imaging apparatus comprising:
- a flat panel radiation detector including an effective imaging area in which a plurality of radiation detection pixels are arranged;
- a display device provided on an outer surface of a housing of the radiation imaging apparatus, in a region different from a region corresponding to the effective imaging area on a radiation incident surface of the housing;
- a detection unit configured to detect an orientation of the radiation imaging apparatus;
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- one or more controllers configured to control information displayed by the display device to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the one or more controllers control the information displayed by the display device based on a detection result of the detection unit, and
- wherein the one or more controllers change the information displayed by the display device based on a detection result of a change of the orientation of the radiation imaging apparatus in a vertical direction.
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A radiation imaging system comprising:
- a radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC);
- a radiation imaging control apparatus configured to control radiation imaging;
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- an external terminal configured to communicate with at least one of the radiation imaging apparatus and the radiation imaging control apparatus via a communication unit, and to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the information about the AEC includes information about the plurality of receptor fields, and
- wherein the external terminal displays the information about the plurality of receptor fields in a manner that enables identifying each of the plurality of receptor fields.
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A radiation imaging system comprising:
- a radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC);
- a radiation imaging control apparatus configured to control radiation imaging;
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- an external terminal configured to communicate with at least one of the radiation imaging apparatus and the radiation imaging control apparatus via a communication unit, and to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the external terminal is configured to change a display content of the information about the AEC based on orientation information of the radiation imaging apparatus.
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A radiation imaging system comprising:
- a radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of receptor fields for automatic exposure control (AEC);
- a radiation imaging control apparatus configured to control radiation imaging;
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- an external terminal configured to communicate with at least one of the radiation imaging apparatus and the radiation imaging control apparatus via a communication unit, and to display information about the AEC,
- wherein the external terminal is configured to display the information about the AEC and to accept an operation input for changing a receptor field used for AEC among the plurality of receptor fields, and
- wherein the external terminal is configured to transmit, via the communication unit, information indicating the change of the receptor field to at least one of the radiation imaging apparatus and the radiation imaging control apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.