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Apparatus and method for processing radiation image

AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation

InventorsYoshitaka Yamaguchi, Sadato Akahori, Kazuharu Ueta, Yasunori Ohta, Atsushi Fukuda

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Abstract

A radiation image processing apparatus includes a radiation source for irradiating the subject with the radiation, the subject being applied with a fixation material, a radiation source controller for controlling the radiation source in accordance with different image capturing conditions, a radiation converting panel for converting the radiation into one of the pieces of radiation image information, a processing condition memory for storing a plurality of processing conditions, each including the image capturing conditions that correspond to a type of the fixation material, a processing condition selector for selecting one of the processing conditions, the selected one of the processing conditions corresponding to the type of the fixation material, and an image processor for processing in accordance with the selected processing condition the plurality of pieces of radiation image information that are provided by the radiation converting panel under the different image capturing conditions, respectively.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A radiation image processing apparatus for producing a piece of radiation image information of a desired image capturing site by processing a plurality of pieces of radiation image information that are obtained by irradiation of a subject with radiation of different energies, respectively, the apparatus comprising:

a radiation source for irradiating the subject with the radiation, the subject being applied with a fixation material;
a radiation source controller for controlling the radiation source in sequence in accordance with preset two different image capturing conditions;
a processing condition memory for storing a plurality of processing conditions, each including the two different image capturing conditions and an image processing condition that correspond to a type of the fixation material and an image capturing site;
a processing condition readout unit for reading out one of the processing conditions that correspond to the type of the fixation material with which the subject is applied and the image capturing site;
an image capturing condition setting unit for setting the two different image capturing conditions that correspond to the type of the fixation material and the image capturing site included in the read out one of the processing conditions to the radiation source controller, and making the radiation source controller control the radiation source in sequence in accordance with the two different image capturing conditions that correspond to the type of the fixation material and the image capturing site;
a radiation converting panel for receiving and converting the radiation that has passed through the fixation material and the subject into one of the pieces of radiation image information;
and
an image processor for processing two pieces of radiation image information that are provided by the radiation converting panel under the two different image capturing conditions in accordance with the image processing condition included in the read out one of the processing conditions.

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A radiation image processing method used in a radiation image processing apparatus for producing a piece of radiation image information of a desired image capturing site by processing a plurality of pieces of radiation image information that are obtained by irradiation of a subject with radiation of different energies, respectively, the radiation image processing apparatus comprising a radiation source for irradiating the subject with the radiation, the subject being applied with a fixation material, a radiation source controller for controlling the radiation source in sequence in accordance with preset two different image capturing conditions, a radiation converting panel for receiving and converting the radiation that has passed through the fixation material and the subject into one of the pieces of radiation image information, and a processing condition memory for storing a plurality of processing conditions, each including the two different image capturing conditions and an image processing condition that correspond to a type of the fixation material and an image capturing site, the method comprising the steps of:

reading out from the processing condition memory one of the processing conditions that correspond to the type of the fixation material with which the subject is applied and the image capturing site;
setting the two different image capturing conditions that correspond to the type of the fixation material and the image capturing site included in the read out one of the processing conditions to the radiation source controller, and controlling the radiation source in sequence in accordance with the two different image capturing conditions that correspond to the type of the fixation material and the image capturing site;
and
performing image processing of the two pieces of radiation image information that are provided by the radiation converting panel under the two different image capturing conditions in accordance with the image processing condition included in the read out one of the processing conditions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/238,721Filed 26 Sep 2008
Priority: JP 2007-25245427 Sep 2007
Published: US 2009/0087069 A12 Apr 2009
Granted: 30 Oct 2012
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Classification11 codes

G06T 5/50
Image enhancement or restoration: using two or more images, e.g. averaging or subtraction
A61B 6/482
Diagnostic techniques: involving multiple energy imaging
A61B 6/505
Specially adapted for specific body parts; specially adapted for specific clinical applications: for diagnosis of bone
A61B 6/545
Control of apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis: involving automatic set-up of acquisition parameters