Reproduction test service apparatus for medical systems, maintenance support information management apparatus, x-ray CT system, and maintenance service center apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorAkira Adachi
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Abstract
In order to reproduce the past operations of a medical system, a reproduction test service apparatus stores a plurality of past log files directly or indirectly supplied from the medical system in a log file storage unit and reproduces the past operations of the medical system on a pseudo X-ray CT system in accordance with the stored log files.
Claims21
A reproduction test service apparatus which reproduces past operations of a medical system, comprising:
- a unit configured to receive a plurality of past log files directly or indirectly from the medical system;
- a unit configured to store the plurality of log files;
- a pseudo medical system;
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- a control unit configured to control the pseudo medical system based on the log files so as to allow a plurality of past operations of the medical system to be reproduced on the pseudo medical system.
A maintenance support information management apparatus connected to a plurality of medical systems and at least one maintenance service apparatus through electronic communications circuits, comprising:
- a unit configured to receive a plurality of log files representing a record of operations from each of the medical systems;
- a unit configured to store the log files;
- a unit configured to analyze the stored log files and determine the frequency of use of each operation;
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- a unit configured to provide the frequency of use of each operation or information obtained therefrom as requested by the maintenance service apparatus.
An X-ray CT system comprising:
- a gantry unit configured to collect data from a subject under examination;
- a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct image data based on the collected data;
- a unit configured to store data collected at the occurrence of a fault and reconstruction conditions at the time of the fault;
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- a control unit configured to allow the reconstruction unit to reproduce the same operation as at the time of the fault under the same reconstruction conditions as the stored reconstruction conditions using the stored data, at the occurrence of the fault.
An X-ray CT system comprising:
- a gantry unit configured to collect data from a subject under examination;
- a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct image data based on the collected data;
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- a control unit configured to, in the event of a fault, diagnose the gantry unit and the reconstruction unit in order to determine the seriousness of the fault and restrict the operation of the gantry unit or the reconstruction unit based on the seriousness of the fault.
An X-ray CT system comprising:
- a gantry unit configured to collect data from a subject under examination;
- a preprocessing unit configured to preprocess the collected data;
- a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct image data based on the preprocessed data;
- a data transfer unit configured to transfer data between the gantry unit and the preprocessing unit and between the preprocessing unit and the reconstruction unit;
- a diagnostic unit configured to make a diagnosis of whether each of the data transfer unit, the preprocessing unit and the reconstruction unit is operating properly;
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- a unit configured to store diagnostic data similar to the data collected by the gantry unit and used for diagnosis by the diagnostic unit.
A maintenance service center apparatus connected with a plurality of medical systems by electronic communications circuits, comprising:
- a unit configured to receive log files containing faulty conditions from the medical systems;
- a unit configured to analyze the log files to determine the seriousness of faults and determine restrictions on the operation of the medical systems based on the seriousness of faults;
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- a unit configured to transfer the restrictions on the operation to the medical systems.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.