KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130274608 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound toward a subject and a received signal obtained by receiving a reflected ultrasound from the subject, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a puncture needle position detection unit which obtains a puncture needle echo information indicating an angle and a position of the puncture needle from the plane-wave received signal, and an ultrasound image is displayed on the basis of the received signal, the transmission unit applies the driving signal to the ultrasound probe so that a plane-wave transmission ultrasound is output from the ultrasound probe, and the receiving unit receives a plane-wave received signal which is obtained in such a way that the plane-wave transmission ultrasound is transmitted from the ultrasound probe, reflected by a puncture needle to be the reflected ultrasound and received by the ultrasound probe. | 10-17-2013 |
20130259203 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CONSOLE - A radiation image capturing system and a console are described. The radiation image capturing system includes a radiation image capturing apparatus and a console. The console holds in advance a relationship between a number of the scanning line from which readout of the image data is started and an offset amount superimposed on the image data to be read out. When the preview image is displayed, the console modifies the relationship so that the starting point is moved to a position of the scanning line from which the radiation image capturing apparatus actually starts the readout, calculates the offset amount for each of the scanning lines, and displays the preview image based on a value obtained by subtracting the offset amount from the corresponding preview image data. | 10-03-2013 |
20130230135 | JOINT IMAGING APPARATUS - A joint imaging apparatus includes a subject table and a radiographic unit including a radiation generating section disposed above the subject table to irradiate a joint of a finger, and a detecting section disposed under the subject table to detect radiation passing through the joint. The subject table includes a base unit to fix the wrist, and a subject fixing unit to fix the joint to a predetermined position. The subject fixing unit includes a first fixing member to fix a part on the trunk side of the joint, and a second fixing member to fix a part on the side, opposite to the trunk side, of the joint. A position of the second fixing member is adjustable relative to that of the first fixing member. | 09-05-2013 |
20130201198 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGES AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method for displaying medical images and a medical image display system that do not require a medical practitioner to move his/her line of sight at the time of comparing/interpreting images and that can improve accuracy in diagnosis. According to the medical image display system of the present invention: an X-ray imaging device captures an image of a subject according to a first imaging mode by a fringe-scanning imaging device or a second imaging mode by a Fourier transform imaging device; a controller creates at least two images from among an X-ray absorption image, a differential phase image, and a small-angle scattering image on the basis of the captured moire image; and said at least two images that have been created are displayed in turn in the same position on a display section. | 08-08-2013 |
20130187059 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiation image capturing system which includes a radiation image capturing apparatus including a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of radiation detection elements, a scanning drive unit, switch units, reading circuits and a control unit and a console including a notification unit. In the system, the control unit of the radiation image capturing apparatus starts or continues a reset process of the radiation detection elements to discharge the electric charges remaining in the radiation detection elements from inside of each of the radiation detection elements for next radiation image capturing when a series of processes for obtaining the image data is finished. | 07-25-2013 |
20130161526 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - If a control unit of a radiation image capturing apparatus acquires dark image data before photographing and at the same time detects initiation of irradiation of radiation based on image data read out by carrying out a readout process of the image data, the control unit applies off-voltage to all the scanning lines and shifts to an electric charge accumulation mode, and after the irradiation is over, sequentially applies on-voltage to each of the scanning lines, causes the scanning lines to carry out readout process of main image data from each of radiation detection elements, and subsequently acquires offset data in a condition where radiation is not irradiated to correct the main image data read out by the photographing or main image data read out by a photographing carried out after the former photographing based on offset lag part calculated from the offset data and the dark image data. | 06-27-2013 |
20130157287 | BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE DETECTION METHOD - A biological substance detection method for detecting a biological substance specifically in a pathological specimen, comprising a step of immunologically staining the pathological specimen using a fluorescent label, a step of staining the pathological specimen with a staining reagent for morphology observation purposes (eosin) to observe the morphology of the pathological specimen, a step of irradiating the stained pathological specimen, with excited light to cause the emission of a fluorescent and detecting the biological substance in the pathological specimen. In the step of immunologically staining the pathological specimen, a special fluorescent particle for which the excitation wavelength appears in a region that is different from the excitation wavelength region of eosin is used as the fluorescent label. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156267 | DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a diagnosis assistance system. The system includes, an imaging unit, an analysis unit, an operation unit, and a display unit. The analysis unit extracts a subject region from each of the plurality of image frames generated by the imaging unit, divides the extracted subject region into a plurality of regions, and analyzes the divided regions correlated among the plurality of image frames, thereby calculating a predetermined feature quantity indicating motions of the divided regions. The operation unit allows a user to select a region serving as a display target of an analysis result by the analysis unit. The display unit displays the calculated feature quantity regarding the selected region. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156158 | THORACIC DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a thoracic diagnosis assistance system. The system includes, an imaging unit, an extracting unit, a region dividing unit, an analysis unit and a display unit. The extraction unit extracts a lung field region from the plurality of successive image frames generated by the imaging unit. The region dividing unit divides the lung field region extracted by the extraction unit into a plurality of sub-regions and correlates the sub-regions among the plurality of image frames. The analysis unit performs an analysis of the sub-regions to calculate an inspiratory feature quantity and an expiratory feature quantity and to calculate a value of a ratio of the calculated inspiratory feature quantity to expiratory feature quantity and creates a histogram of the calculated ratio value. The display unit displays the histogram. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154039 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR AND RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - The present invention provides a production method of a radiation image detector, comprising a scintillator panel preparation step, a composite rigid plate preparation step of bonding a flexible polymer film to a rigid plate with an adhesive to prepare the composite rigid plate, a preparation step of a scintillator panel provided with a composite rigid plate of bonding the composite rigid plate to a scintillator panel to prepare the scintillator panel provided with a composite rigid plate, and a preparation step of a radiation image detection member of opposing the surface of the photoelectric conversion base plate in which the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed to the surface of the side of the scintillator layer of the scintillator panel provided with the composite rigid plate and bonding the photoelectric conversion base plate to the scintillator panel to prepare a radiation image detection member; whereby there arc provided a production method of a radiation image detector which can he easily produced and results in superior image uniformity, and a radiation image detector obtained by the method. | 06-20-2013 |
20130153859 | SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLY - A semiconductor nanoparticle assembly including semiconductor nanoparticles having a core/shell structure, and wherein the semiconductor nanoparticles are bonded by means of amide bonds. | 06-20-2013 |
20130121556 | MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A medical imaging system includes: an image generating unit which captures an image of a subject and generates a medical image which is a still image; a region extracting unit which extracts a subject region from the medical image and extracts a local region which includes no edge from the subject region; a motion judging unit which extracts high spatial frequency components from the local region extracted by the region extracting unit and judges whether there is any motion in the subject during image capture based on the extracted high spatial frequency components; and a controlling unit which causes an outputting unit to output a judgment result made by the motion judging unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130111353 | MEDICAL COORDINATION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130099128 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - According to one implementation, a radiation image capturing system includes a radiation image capturing apparatus; and a radiation generating apparatus. The radiation image capturing apparatus includes: a plurality of radiation detecting elements defined by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines; a scanning driving section; a switch section; a reading circuit; and a control section. The control section detects a start of emission of radiation from a radiation source. The control section includes a notifying section which notifies that start of emission of radiation is detected when the start of emission of radiation is detected. | 04-25-2013 |
20130085390 | ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER, ULTRASOUND PROBE, AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - Object is that an output sound pressure at transmission or an output voltage at reception of a predetermined higher resonance component becomes higher than those of the primary resonance component. The piezoelectric material layer | 04-04-2013 |
20130082186 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiation image capturing system which includes a radiation image capturing apparatus including a detection part, a scan activation unit, switch units, a reading circuit, a control unit and a communication unit, a radiation generation apparatus and a console wherein the radiation image capturing apparatus switches an image capturing method between a cooperation method in which radiation image capturing is performed in cooperation with the radiation generation apparatus and a non-cooperation method in which radiation image capturing is performed without cooperation with the radiation generation apparatus, and the console switches standby time which is a time period after the radiation image capturing apparatus becomes able to perform radiation image capturing until the radiation source is allowed to emit radiation onto the radiation image capturing apparatus between the cooperation method and the non-cooperation method. | 04-04-2013 |
20130068961 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiation image capturing apparatus is provided with a scanning drive unit which sequentially applies ON voltage to respective scanning lines during a readout process to read out image data from radiation detection elements. From the time before radiation imaging, a controller controls the scanning drive unit to sequentially apply the ON voltage to the respective scanning lines and executes the readout process for the image data from the radiation detection elements. The controller detects start of the radioactive irradiation when the image data exceeds a threshold value, and controls that ON time, during which the ON voltage is applied to the scanning lines from the scanning drive unit during the readout process for the image data before radiation imaging, becomes longer than ON time during a readout process for the image data after finishing the radioactive irradiation. | 03-21-2013 |
20130068953 | FLAT PANEL DETECTOR - A flat panel radiation detector is disclosed, comprising a scintillator panel provided on a support with a phosphor layer comprising columnar crystals and a protective layer sequentially in this order, and the scintillator panel being coupled with a planar light receiving element having plural picture elements which are arranged two-dimensionally, in which the difference between to average void fraction of an edge portion of the phosphor layer and the average void fraction of a base portion is not less than 5% and not more than 25%, and the void fraction decreases from the base portion to the edge portion. There is provided a flat panel radiation detector with a phosphor layer which exhibits enhanced physical resistance to shock and is superior in sharpness and emission efficiency. | 03-21-2013 |
20130058557 | DYNAMIC IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - It is possible to improve a diagnostic performance by a dynamic image and in particular, to provide information effective for diagnosis of the lung ventilation function. Provided is a dynamic image capturing system ( | 03-07-2013 |
20130039468 | DYNAMIC RADIOGRAPHING SYSTEM - A dynamic radiographing system enables determination of an evaluation value of the heart function of a subject by plain radiography. The dynamic radiographing system comprises a radiographing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and a console for diagnosis. The radiographing apparatus dynamically radiographs the heart of a subject and creates radiographs in plural time phases (Step S | 02-14-2013 |
20130038738 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - According to one implementation of the present invention, there is provided a radiation image capturing system. The system includes, a radiation source; a plurality of radiation image capturing devices; and a console. The console manages which of the radiation image capturing devices is in a state where image capturing is possible. The console registers image capturing order information including information of which radiation image capturing device is used in the image capturing, or obtains the registered image capturing order information. When there is a radiation image capturing device in a state where image capturing is possible, regardless of a predetermined order, the console displays the icon corresponding to the image capturing order information including information of the radiation image capturing device in a manner different from the other icons. | 02-14-2013 |
20130032696 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiation image capturing apparatus includes: a detecting section, a scanning drive unit, switch units, reading circuits, and a controller. The controller controls at least the scanning drive unit and the reading circuits and causes the same to execute data readout process from the radiation detection elements. The controller causes the reading circuits to periodically perform a readout operation before radiation image capturing operation in a state where each of the switch units is in an off state by applying the off voltage to all of the scanning lines from the scanning drive unit, causes the reading circuits to repeatedly execute a leaked data readout process in which the electric charges leaked from the radiation detection elements through the switch units are converted into leaked data, and detects initiation of irradiation at a point when the read-out leaked data exceeds a threshold value. | 02-07-2013 |
20130019462 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FLAT PANEL DETECTOR - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a flat panel detector such that the surface on the sale of a fluorescent body layer of a scintillator panel which has the fluorescent body layer comprising a column crystal on the supporting body, is coupled to the planar light receiving element surface of a light-receiving element, comprising: a step of manufacturing the scintillator panel which has a larger area than that of the planar light receiving element surface; a step of trimming the edges of the scintillator panel, obtained by the step of manufacturing the scintillator panel, to correspond to the area of the planar light receiving element surface; and a step of coupling the edge-trimmed scintillator panel to the planar light receiving element surface, thus providing a flat panel detector which has an excellent productivity and that can be made small in size without non-image area. | 01-24-2013 |
20130018266 | LAMINATED PIEZOELECTRIC BODY, LAMINATED PIEZOELECTRIC BODY MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE USING LAMINATED PIEZOELECTRIC BODYAANM Nishikubo; YuichiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Nishikubo; Yuichi Tokyo JPAANM Ohnuma; KenjiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Ohnuma; Kenji Tokyo JPAANM Morita; KiyokazuAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Morita; Kiyokazu Tokyo JPAANM Suzuki; KenjiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Suzuki; Kenji Tokyo JPAANM Kodama; HidekazuAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Kodama; Hidekazu Tokyo JPAANM Date; MunehiroAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Date; Munehiro Tokyo JP - In a laminated piezoelectric body, a laminated piezoelectric body manufacturing method, an ultrasound transducer, and an ultrasound diagnostic device according to the present invention, a plurality of mutually laminated piezoelectric bodies are electrically connected in parallel to each other, and each of the plurality of piezoelectric bodies arranges an orientation of residual polarization or a crystal axis that is related to an electrical displacement or a sign of an electric field due to a direct piezoelectric effect in a direction which reduces sensitivity in a first resonance mode and increases sensitivity in a second resonance mode of a higher order than the first resonance mode with respect to an axis of a first-level piezoelectric body on a fixed end-side. | 01-17-2013 |
20130015327 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUSAANM AMITANI; KoujiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP AMITANI; Kouji Tokyo JP - A control device of a radiation image capturing apparatus performs repeated reading of leak data prior to radiation image capturing operation and, when a threshold value has been exceeded by the leak data having been read out, said control device detects the start of irradiation. If there are periodic fluctuations in the leak data read out prior to radiation image capturing operation even though irradiation has not started, said control device determines whether or not a threshold value has been exceeded by a value obtained by subtracting a previously obtained fluctuation pattern of the leak data from the read-out leak data during a time period including at least a time period when the leak data fluctuates. | 01-17-2013 |
20130011040 | X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM - Disclosed in an x-ray imaging device, which uses a Talbot-Lau interferometer, eliminates the effects on image quality of a reconstructed image that arises in such cases as when the direction of a multi-slit or each lattice slit is altered and imaging is performed, and provides reconstructed images favorable for diagnosis. When a plurality of moire images imaged with an imaging subject loaded onto a imaging subject stand ( | 01-10-2013 |
20120323122 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An ultrasound image diagnostic device including: a transducer to output transmission ultrasound toward a subject by a drive signal and also to output a reception signal by receiving reflection ultrasound from the subject; a noise output section in which when the transducer receives the reflection ultrasound, a voltage containing noise is applied to the transducer to amplify the reception signal by a stochastic resonance phenomenon; a harmonic extracting section to extract a harmonic component from the reception signal; and an image processing section to generate ultrasound diagnostic image data of an interior of the subject based on the harmonic component extracted by the harmonic extracting section, wherein the noise output section applies a voltage containing noise such that the harmonic component is amplified by the stochastic resonance phenomenon to the transducer. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321047 | Radiographic System and Radiographic Apparatus - A radiographic system includes: a radiographic apparatus; a radiation generator that irradiates radiation to the radiographic apparatus; and a console which forms a radiation image based on an image data transmitted from the radiographic apparatus, wherein when a radiation image capturing is completed, a controller transmits thinned-out data in which read-out image data are thinned at a prescribed ratio, to the console, which displays a preview image on a display section based on the thinned-out data, when a rejection operation that rejects the preview image through an input section is conducted, the console transmits a stop signal that instructs the radiographic apparatus to stop a series of processing, and wherein when the controller receives the stop signal, the controller stops the series of processing currently in progress, and returns an operation state of each functional section to an operation state before the radiation image capturing is carried out. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321044 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A radiation image capturing system including a CR cassette and a FPD cassette, and the icon corresponding to the bucky device is displayed in a different manner according to the type of cassette loaded on the bucky device. When the icon of the bucky device showing that the FPD cassette is loaded is selected, the icon corresponding to the FPD cassette does not need to be selected. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321043 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A radiation image capturing system including a CR cassette and a FPD cassette, and when the radiation image capturing is started without either of the cassettes being loaded, the radiation generating apparatus is set for the CR cassette and when the icon of the FPD cassette is selected, the radiation generating apparatus is set for the FPD cassette. | 12-20-2012 |
20120318994 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - The control device allows a step of reading the leak data and a step of resetting each radiation detection element to be executed alternately before radiation image capturing. When the data exceed a threshold value, the irradiation start is detected and electric charge is accumulated. Then, the step of reading the image data is executed. After this, the control device further allows a step of reading the leak data and a step of resetting each radiation detection element to be performed alternately at the same cycle time as that in the step of reading the leak data and the step of resetting each radiation detection element performed before detecting the irradiation start. After transfer to the electric charge accumulation state, the control device further permits a step of reading the offset data to be executed at the same cycle time as that in the step of reading the image data. | 12-20-2012 |
20120316443 | ULTRASOUND PROBE - An ultrasound probe includes a receiving section to receive ultrasound waves from an object and to acquire a receiving signal of each of multiple channels; a beam forming section to adjust a phase of the receiving signal of each of multiple channels and to sum the receiving signals; an image producing section to produce image data to display an ultrasound diagnostic image based on the receiving signals summed by the beam forming section; a transmission target selecting section to select one from at least two of the receiving signal for each of multiple channels, the receiving signals summed by the beam forming section, and the image data as a transmission target; and a transmitting section to transmit the transmission target selected by the transmission target selecting section. | 12-13-2012 |
20120310091 | ULTRASOUND IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - The transmitting section of an ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus outputs a square pulse signal to allow a transducer to generate transmission ultrasound. The transmitting section sets the duty ratio of a pulse signal so that one of peaks of the first step response of the transducer which is generated when a change is made to voltage of the pulse signal overlaps with one of peaks of the second step response of the transducer which is generated when another change is made to the voltage of the pulse signal. | 12-06-2012 |
20120302886 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: an ultrasound probe to acquire a received signal via transmitting and receiving an ultrasound to and from a subject; an image generating section to generate an ultrasound image data based on the received signal acquired via said ultrasound probe; an output image generating section to generate output image data in such a manner that the output image data becomes a predetermined output size, by performing an image size changing process with respect to the ultrasound image data; a comparison image generating section to generate comparison image data by changing an image size of the output image data so that the comparison image data has an image size same as an image based on the ultrasound image data; and an image correction section to perform correction of the output image data, based on a difference between the comparison image data and the ultrasound image data | 11-29-2012 |
20120294425 | RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL AND RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR USING SAME - Disclosed is a radiation image conversion panel wherein luminance is improved by preventing the disorder of the structure of phosphor columnar crystals, thereby eliminating the scattering and refraction of optical elements which is emitted by an X-ray-irradiated phosphor and propagated in the direction of a photoelectric conversion element. Moreover disclosed is a radiation image detector using the same. The radiation image conversion panel is characterized in that the radiation image conversion panel comprises a phosphor layer on the substrate, that the phosphor layer is configured of the phosphor columnar crystals formed from a phosphor matrix compound and an activator by vapor deposition, and that the degree of the orientation of the surface of the phosphor columnar crystals, the degree of the orientation being based on X-ray diffraction spectrum and the surface having a fixed mirror index, is in the range of 80 to 100% without regard to the position in the direction of the thickness of the layer from the root near the substrate to the tip of the phosphor columnar crystals of the phosphor layer. | 11-22-2012 |
20120286167 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM AND CONTROL DEVICE - A radiographic image photographing system and its control device surely correlates radiographing order information with radiographic image data and facilitates radiographing work. A control section of a tag reader reads out inherent information stored in a tag in a radiation image detecting device. A control section of a radiographing operation apparatus receives the inherent information of the radiation image detecting device from the tag and stores it in a storing section. In response to an input from an input operation section, the control section correlates each piece of radiographing order information with a cassette ID of the radiation image detecting device and stores this correlation information in the storing section. | 11-15-2012 |
20120277589 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An ultrasound diagnostic device includes: an ultrasound probe which transmits ultrasound toward a tested subject by a plurality of transducers and obtains a received signal; a beam forming section for adding the received signal for each of the transducers with matching a phase of the received signal; an image processing section which generates an image data; a coherent factor calculation section which calculates a coherent factor which represents a ratio of a coherent sum to an incoherent sum; a coherent factor correction section which corrects the coherent factor so as not to be smaller than a predetermined value; and a signal correction section which correct the received signal after having been subject to the adding, by multiplying the received signal after having been subject to the adding by the coherent factor corrected by the coherent factor correction section as a coefficient. | 11-01-2012 |
20120256521 | LAMINATED PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, ULTRASOUND PROBE, AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - A laminated piezoelectric material has a four-layered piezoelectric material and electrode layers for applying a voltage to each layer of the four-layered piezoelectric material. Each piezoelectric material has an inorganic piezoelectric material with a remanent polarization in a thickness direction. The layers are laminated so that a direction of an electric field is counter to a direction of the remanent polarization in one of the layers and the direction of the electric field coincides with the direction of the remanent polarization in the other three layers, or the direction of the electric field coincides with the direction of the remanent polarization in one of the layers and the direction of the electric field is counter to the direction of remanent polarization in the other three layers, when a voltage is applied to each piezoelectric material of the four-layered piezoelectric material via electrode layers. | 10-11-2012 |
20120256335 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a scintillator panel having excellent sharpness and graininess. In the scintillator panel, the scintillator panel and a surface of a planar light receiving element can be brought into uniform contact with each other within the surface, and deterioration of sharpness between the scintillator panel surface and the surface of the planar light receiving element is reduced. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing such scintillator panel is also provided. The scintillator panel is provided by arranging a phosphor layer composed of phosphor columnar crystal on a polymer film substrate. A leading end portion of the phosphor columnar crystal is flattened by pressurized thermal processing. | 10-11-2012 |
20120252140 | FLUORESCENT SUBSTANCE-CONTAINING SILICA NANOPARTICLES AND BIOSUBSTANCE LABELING AGENT - Disclosed are fluorescent substance-containing silica nanoparticles containing a fluorescent substance therein featured in that the surface of the silica nanoparticles is coated with a material having a bulk refractive index of from 1.60 to 4.00. The invention can provide fluorescent substance-containing silica nanoparticles excellent in long term storage stability and a biosubstance labeling agent employing the same. | 10-04-2012 |
20120242682 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - An image display apparatus includes a display unit; a determination unit to determine, based on a predetermined condition, whether or not a conversion process for converting image data from monochrome to color is to be executed to image data of a monochrome medical image; and a display controller to execute the conversion process to the image data, when the determination unit determines execution of the conversion process, to display a colored medical image on the display unit based on processed image data obtained through the conversion process. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242666 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - An image display apparatus includes: a display unit having a display area for displaying a medical image; a determination unit for determining whether or not to generate bitmap data of a thinned image generated by thinning pixels from the medical image, based on first numbers of pixels in first two orthogonal directions that constitute the medical image and second numbers of pixels in second two orthogonal directions that constitute the display area and correspond to the first two orthogonal directions, respectively; and a display controller for, when the determination unit determines to generate the bitmap data of the thinned image, generating the bitmap data of the thinned image, displaying the thinned image on the display unit, generating a bitmap data of an original image of the medical image without thinning pixels therefrom, and displaying the original image alternative to the thinned image being displayed on the display unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120239431 | MEDICAL-INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A medical-information management system includes: an operation unit; a first storage unit that stores medical information; a display unit; and a control unit that determines whether an operation is performed through the operation unit, the operation including (a) acquiring the medical information from one of a second storage unit and a recording medium, (b) storing the acquired medical information in the first storage unit, and (c) displaying the medical information stored in the first storage unit on the display unit; and that grants an operator of the operation unit authority to delete the medical information, acquired in the operation, from the first storage unit when it is determined that the operation is performed. | 09-20-2012 |
20120224670 | X-RAY IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM AND X-RAY IMAGE CREATION METHOD - Disclosed is a novel X-ray image capturing apparatus to which the Talbot-Lau interferometer is applied. The apparatus includes: an X-ray source a multi slits element a first grating; a second grating; a driving section; a subject placing plate: and an X-ray detector, in which conversion elements to convert intensities of X-rays received thereby to electric signals, are arranged in a two-dimensional pattern so as to read the electric signals as image signals. The driving section moves the multi slits element relative to both the first grating and the second grating in a first direction orthogonal to a second direction of irradiating the X-rays, so that the X-ray detector repeats a processing for reading the electric signals converted from the intensities of X-rays received thereby, every time when the multi slits element moves at predetermined intervals so as to acquire the image signals representing Moire images captured at the predetermined intervals. | 09-06-2012 |
20120220872 | ULTRASOUND PROBE AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An ultrasound probe includes a piezoelectric section to transmit and receive ultrasound, wherein the piezoelectric section includes a plurality of laminated piezoelectric layers each of which includes piezoelectric members and non-piezoelectric members both of which are arranged alternately in parallel to each other in an arrangement direction, and wherein the arrangement direction of the piezoelectric members and the non-piezoelectric members in at least one piezoelectric layer of the plurality of laminated piezoelectric layers is different from that in other one piezoelectric layer of the plurality of laminated piezoelectric layers. | 08-30-2012 |
20120217410 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A radiation image capturing system includes: a detecting section provided with a plurality of radiation detection elements arranged two-dimensionally in small regions each partitioned by a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines, wherein, prior to radiation image capturing operation, processing of reading out leak data from the radiation detection elements is repeated, a start of irradiation is detected when any one of values calculated by calculation of the leak data using a plurality of mutually differing calculation methods exceeds a corresponding set threshold value among the threshold values set to the plurality of the calculation methods, a scope of the image data containing a defect based on information of the calculation method is identified, and then the image data in the identified scope is repaired with a reparation method corresponding to the calculation method. | 08-30-2012 |
20120211669 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, FLAT PANEL DETECTOR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a scintillator panel provided with on a support a phosphor layer comprising columnar crystals and a protective layer sequentially in this order, wherein degraded areas on lateral surfaces of columnar crystals at an end of the phosphor layer and produced by a cutting treatment account for not less than 0% and not more than 40% of an area of all of the side surfaces of the columnar (irystals A production method of the scintillator panel is also disclosed. | 08-23-2012 |
20120211666 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - In a radiation image capturing system, prior to radiation image capturing operation, the radiation image capturing apparatus repeats on an alternate basis, a step of reading leak data and a step of resetting each of the radiation detection elements, wherein the step of reading leak data is performed by turning off all switch units, allowing a reading circuit to perform cyclic reading operations under this condition and converting electric charge leaking out of radiation detection elements through the switch units into the leak data, thereby detecting a start of irradiation based on the leak data having been read out. The image processing apparatus analyzes a profile of image data along the extension of signal lines of the radiation image capturing apparatus, and identifies a range of the image data where a defect has occurred, whereby the image data in the identified range is corrected. | 08-23-2012 |
20120211661 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SCINTILLATOR PANEL, SCINTILLATOR PANEL AND FLAT PANEL DETECTOR - Provided is a method for producing a scintillator panel containing a first support having thereon a phosphor layer, and a protective layer on the phosphor layer, the method comprising the steps of (1) dividing a first scintillator panel comprising the first support having thereon the phosphor layer into a plurality of second scintillator panels; (2) providing an adsorbing member between a side of the first support of each of the plurality of the second scintillator panels and a side of a second support; and allowing to adsorb the plurality of the second scintillator panels onto the second support; (3) forming a protective layer on a whole surface of the plurality of the second scintillator panels except a portion of the second scintillator panels which is contacted with the adsorbing member. | 08-23-2012 |
20120207278 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a radiographic imaging system which is provided with: a plurality of radiographing chambers equipped with a registration device; a console; and a management device for associating and managing the identification information of a portable radiographic imaging device with the identification information of the radiographing chambers. When the identification information of the portable radiographic imaging device is notified by the registration device of a radiographing chamber, the console displays an icon corresponding to the imaging device on a selection screen. When the identification information of the portable radiographic imaging device, as notified by the registration device, is associated with the identification information of another radiographing chamber, the management device discards the association and deletes the icon corresponding to the portable radiographic imaging device from the selection screen of the console, which is associated with said other radiographing chamber. | 08-16-2012 |
20120168626 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DETECTION CASSETTE - A case constituting a cassette-type detector has a first lid member which closes an opening of the case arranged therein. An exterior wall hole is provided to a corner section of the first lid member. This makes it possible to detect appropriate radiological images all the time since even if an unexpected shock is applied to the corner section, the shock is absorbed by the deformation of the corner section to prevent the damage of the built-in detection unit of the cassette-type detector. | 07-05-2012 |
20120153172 | CASSETTE TYPE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SOLID-STATE DETECTOR - A cassette type radiographic image solid-state detector includes: a detector unit having a scintillator for converting incident radiation into light and a detection section which receives and converts the light converted by the scintillator into electric signals; and a housing containing the detector unit, the housing having a rectangular tubular housing body which has openings at both ends and is formed in a rectangular tube shape using carbon fiber, and a first cover member and a second cover member for covering the openings of the rectangular tubular housing body, wherein a wall of the rectangular tubular housing body facing to a direction perpendicular to an incident direction of radiation is thicker than a wall of the rectangular tubular housing body facing to the incident direction of radiation. | 06-21-2012 |
20120145914 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an radiographic image capturing system, which makes it possible to establish second β*-correction data for the replacement-use radiographic image capturing apparatus, even if a console is busy. The system includes: a radiographic image capturing apparatus provided with radiation detecting elements two dimensionally arranged, to output image data representing a radiographic image; a radiation source to emit radiation; a cradle provided in an image capturing room; and a console to create a radiographic image based on the image data. When the replacement-use radiographic image capturing apparatus is inserted into the cradle, the cradle reads out first β-correction data, therefrom, and then, based on the first β-correction data, the first α-correction data and second α*-correction data, the cradle calculates second β*-correction data corresponding to the radiation source currently residing in the image capturing room, so as to establish the second β*-correction data above-calculated for the replacement-use radiographic image capturing apparatus. | 06-14-2012 |
20120133339 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A radiographic image capturing system having, a low-current electric power feeding section, a high-current electric power feeding section, and a cassette-type radiographic image detection device having a battery which feeds electric power, the radiographic image detection device including: a power receiving side connection section receiving electric power from an electric power feeding section having been connected; a first charging path converting electric power fed from the power feeding section into charging electric power which is fed to the battery; a second charging path feeding the electric power to the battery without the conversion; and a charging path switching section switching when the low-current electric power feeding section has been connected to the power receiving side connection section, electric power is fed via the first charging path and when the high-current electric power feeding section has been connected, electric power is fed via the second charging path. | 05-31-2012 |
20120132825 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - Disclosed is a radiation image capturing device including a control section which detects at least a start of irradiation based on a current value of a current detected by a current detection section, wherein the control section applies an ON-state voltage having a predetermined voltage value from a scan driving section to a switch section via each of scan lines simultaneously so as to perform reset processing of each of radiation detection elements before radiation image capturing, and thereafter, decreases the voltage value of the ON-state voltage simultaneously, monitors the current value outputted from the current detection section while keeping the decreased voltage value of the ON-state voltage, and waits for the start of the irradiation. | 05-31-2012 |
20120130238 | DYNAMIC DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT INFORMATION GENERATION SYSTEM - A dynamic diagnosis support information generation system includes: a radiation generator capable of irradiating a pulsed radiation; a radiation detector which is provided with a plurality of detecting elements arranged in two-dimension, detects the pulsed radiation irradiated from the radiation generator at each of the plurality of detecting elements and generates frame images successively; and an analysis section which calculates and outputs a feature value relating to a dynamic image of a subject based on a plurality of frame images generated by radiographing the subject by using the radiation generator and the radiation detector, wherein the analysis section calculates the feature value relating to the dynamic image of the subject by corresponding pixels to each others representing outputs of a detecting element at a same position in the radiation detector among the plurality of the frame images. | 05-24-2012 |
20120119100 | RADIOGRAPHIC-IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC-IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - The radiographic-image capturing device is provided with: a detecting unit that has multiple scanning lines and multiple signal lines arranged so as to intersect with each other, and has multiple radiation detection elements arranged two-dimensionally at each of the areas partitioned by the multiple scanning lines and multiple signal lines; a reading circuit that reads electric charges from the radiation detection elements via the signal lines, and converts the electric charges to electric signals, and outputs the electric signals as image data, for each of the radiation detection elements; and compressing means for compressing image data of each of the radiation detection elements. The compressing means creates difference data between the image data of adjacent radiation detection elements, for each of the image data outputted from multiple radiation detection elements connected to the same signal line, and compresses this difference data. | 05-17-2012 |
20120116228 | PIEZOELECTRIC BODY, ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER, MEDICAL ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, AND NONDESTRUCTIVE ULTRASOUND TEST SYSTEM - Disclosed is a piezoelectric body having both broad band property and improved piezoelectricity, which can be suitably used for a sensor, an actuator, an ultrasound transducer and the like. The piezoelectric body is featured in that (a) it comprises a laminate structure which is represented by the following general formula, | 05-10-2012 |
20120112081 | RADIATION IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - A radiation image photographing apparatus is provided with a bias source to apply a bias voltage via bias lines to radiation detecting elements arranged in a two dimensional form in regions divided by scanning lines and signal lines. The bias lines are connected to the radiation detecting elements with a ratio of one bias line to the radiation detecting elements arranged on one column in an extension direction of the signal line, and the bias lines are connected per a predetermined number of bias lines to either one of a plurality of connection lines. The bias voltage is applied from the bias source to the connection lines via the bias lines so that the bias voltage is applied to the radiation detecting elements via the bias lines connected to the connection lines. | 05-10-2012 |
20120108974 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; a transmission section which supplies the probe with a drive signal; a receiving section which receives a reception signal sent from the probe; an image generation section which generates frame image data obtained by converting the reception signal; an intermediate image generation section which detects a moved image, identifies a move source and a move destination of the detected image based on a plurality of frame image data, and generates intermediate image data which allocates the moved image at a position obtained by intermediating the identified move source and the identified move destination of the detected image; and a display section which displays the ultrasound diagnosis image, wherein the display section displays the ultrasound diagnosis image so that intermediate image is inserted and displayed in a chronological order into image based on the frame image data. | 05-03-2012 |
20120107831 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AFFERENT LYMPH VESSEL INFLOW REGIONS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC CELLS - Regions where metastatic cancer cells can exist are detected with high accuracy in a sentinel lymph node. Quantum dots are injected into the vicinity of a cancer in a living body, thereby identifying the location of the sentinel lymph node by means of fluorescence. Subsequently, the sentinel lymph node is extracted. With respect to the sentinel lymph node extracted with quantum dots injected, structural analysis is conducted by means of precision fluorescence measurement which uses a confocal fluorescence microscope for monomolecular observation. Specifically, the fluorescence intensity is measured with respect to each of multiple areas in the sentinel lymph nodes, and out of the multiple areas measured, one or more areas are detected as afferent lymph vessel inflow regions in descending order of fluorescence intensity. | 05-03-2012 |
20120101379 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - The ultrasound probe includes an error correcting code generating unit to generate error correcting codes corresponding to the ultrasound data, adds the error correcting codes generated by the error correcting code generating unit to the ultrasound data so as to produce transmission data, and transmits the transmission data to the processing unit. The processing unit includes an error correcting unit to perform error correction processing for the ultrasound data based on the error correcting codes contained in the transmission data, and an error ratio detecting unit to detect an error ratio of data in the ultrasound data contained in the transmission data, and transmits information corresponding to the error ratio detected by the error ratio detecting unit to the ultrasound probe. The error correcting code generating unit changes a ratio of error correcting codes to the ultrasound data in accordance with the error ratio received by the ultrasound probe. | 04-26-2012 |
20120097860 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is a radiographic imaging apparatus capable of obtaining more suitable radiological images by reducing the influence of noise generated at a current detecting section which detects current carried by applying radiation. The radiographic imaging apparatus includes a plurality of radiation detection elements two-dimensionally arranged in each region defined by a scanning line and a signal line, a switch section the state of which is switched between on and off states depending on voltage applied to the connected scanning line, a scan drive means having a gate driver that applies on voltage and off voltage to the switch section through the scanning line and a power supply circuit that supplies on voltage and off voltage to the gate driver, a current detecting section for detecting current flowing between the power supply circuit and the gate driver or current flowing through the scanning line, and a control section for detecting at least the start of applying radiation on the basis of the value of the current detected by the current detecting section. | 04-26-2012 |
20120097855 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL, METHOD OF PRODUCING SCINTILLATOR PANEL, RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR AND METHOD OF PRODUCING RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - A scintillator panel which has achieved enhanced sharpness and sensitivity is disclosed, comprising on a first support a phosphor layer comprising phosphor columnar crystals formed by a process of vapor phase deposition and containing a parent component of cesium iodide (CsI) and an activator of thallium (Tl), and the phosphor layer comprising a first layer of a CsI layer which is in the bottom portion of the phosphor layer and does not contain any activator of thallium, and on the first layer, a second layer of a CsI—Tl layer which contains the activator of thallium and exhibits not more than 32% of a coefficient of variation of concentration of thallium in the direction of thickness. | 04-26-2012 |
20120068074 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SCINTILLATOR PANEL, SCINTILLATOR PANEL, AND RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - A method of manufacturing a scintillator panel in which no dust is generated when improving protrusions on the phosphor surface, resulting in no generation of image defects caused by the dust, to-provide a scintillator panel exhibiting excellent image quality and a radiation image detector thereof. The scintillator panel includes a support having a phosphor layer formed thereon. The method includes forming the phosphor layer on the support, and subsequently heat-treating the support and the phosphor layer which are sandwiched by two rigid plates under applied pressure. | 03-22-2012 |
20120068073 | CASSETTE TYPE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SOLID-STATE DETECTOR - A cassette type radiographic image detector may include a housing including a first surface on which radiation enters and a second surface as a back surface opposite to the first surface, and a detection panel housed within the housing which detects radiation transmitted through the first surface. The housing may be configured to disperse an external force by transmitting a vertical component of the external force from one of the first or second surface to the other of the first or second surface. | 03-22-2012 |
20120065516 | ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER, ULTRASOUND PROBE, AND ULTRASOUND MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material which has excellent piezoelectric characteristics and excellent handling properties. Also disclosed are an ultrasound transducer using the organic piezoelectric material, an ultrasound probe, and an ultrasound medical diagnostic imaging system. Specifically disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material which contains a base material that is formed from a resin, and a specific compound (1) that has at least one linking group selected from among specific linking groups. The organic piezoelectric material is characterized in that the relation shown below is satisfied when the CLogP values of the specific compound (1) and the base material are respectively represented by CLogP(1) and CLogP(base material). Relation: |CLogP(1)−CLogP(base material)|≦3.0. | 03-15-2012 |
20120045850 | SILICA NANOPARTICLE EMBEDDING QUANTUM DOTS, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND BIOSUBSTANCE LABELING AGENT BY USE THEREOF - Disclosed is a quantum dot-embedded silica nanoparticle having plural quantum dots embedded within the silica nanoparticle, wherein the number of quantum dots existing in a concentric area within 10% of a radius from a center of the silica nanoparticle accounts for 10 to 70% of the number of total quantum dots embedded in the silica nanoparticle. | 02-23-2012 |
20120041785 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE GROUPING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A medical image processing apparatus includes a control unit for grouping input medical images from every same examination of a same patient by using accompanying information of the input medical images, and for saving the grouped medical images in a storage unit. When a medical image is newly input, the control unit collates accompanying information of the newly input medical image with the accompanying information of the grouped medical images to thereby judge whether the newly input medical image has been obtained by additional radiography or by re-radiography. The control unit regroups the newly input medical image and the grouped medical images from a same examination of a same patient by using the accompanying information, when the control unit judges that the newly input medical image has been obtained by either additional radiography or re-radiography. | 02-16-2012 |
20120029943 | REPORT GENERATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A report generation management device includes a storage unit which stores interpretation report information, and a control unit. The control unit generates a plurality of pieces of interpretation report information for one examination, stores the generated pieces of the interpretation report information in the storage unit, and manages the generated pieces of the interpretation report information by correlating the generated pieces of the interpretation report information with the examination. | 02-02-2012 |
20120022378 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An ultrasonic probe includes at least one transmission element layer for transmitting ultrasonic waves, at least one reception element layer for receiving ultrasonic waves and which is provided with an electrode on each of both surfaces opposed in a direction of a thickness thereof, and at least one matching layer for matching acoustic impedance. These layers are arranged in this order in a direction of transmitting the ultrasonic waves. The reception element layer is provided with a projecting portion projecting in a direction of elevation from upper and lower layers which sandwich the two electrodes respectively formed on both surfaces of the reception element layer, and at least one of the electrodes is formed by extending to the projecting portion. | 01-26-2012 |
20120018633 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTING CASSETTE - Disclosed is a radiation image detecting cassette, which makes it possible to continuously conduct operations for detecting appropriate radiation images without making the glass substrate fall into the breakage failure. The cassette includes: a detecting section to detects radiation being incident thereon; a glass base plate onto which the detecting section is installed; a substrate to support the glass base plate; a housing that incorporates the detecting section, the glass base plate and the substrate, therein; and a buffer member that is installed between an end portion of the substrate and an inner wall of the housing. A side wall is formed at the end portion of the substrate, and the glass base plate is supported by the substrate in such a state that the glass base plate is adhered onto the substrate. A gap is provided between an end portion of the glass base plate and the side wall. | 01-26-2012 |
20120016241 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - In an ultrasonic diagnostic device S according to the present invention, a reference signal generation unit | 01-19-2012 |
20120009375 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL - A scintillator panel exhibiting enhanced moisture resistance is disclosed, comprising a scintillator sheet provided on a substrate with a scintillator layer, and the whole of the scintillator sheet is covered with a protective layer and a space in which gas is capable of flowing is provided between the protective layer and the scintillator sheet. | 01-12-2012 |
20120006994 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTING SYSTEM - Provided is a radiation image detecting system including a cassette type radiation image detecting apparatus capable of being driven by electric power supplied from a built-in battery; a charge controlling circuit to control charging of the battery; a cradle supplying electric power to the radiation image detecting apparatus; and a cable supplying electric power to the radiation image detecting apparatus, wherein the radiation image detecting apparatus includes a connection section being electrically connected to each of the cradle and the cable to receive the electric power; the battery is charged by the cradle being connected to the connection section and by the cable being connected to the connection section; and the charge controlling circuit switches a charging current between a time when the cradle is connected to the connection section and a time when the cable is connected to the connection section. | 01-12-2012 |
20120004555 | METHOD OF STRETCHING ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER, ULTRASONIC WAVE PROBE AND ULTRASONIC WAVE MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS DEVICE - Provided is a stretching method of an organic piezoelectric material which sequentially performs a primary stretching step for carrying out primary stretching of an organic piezoelectric material which has not been stretched, a heat treatment step for heat treating the organic piezoelectric material subjected to primary stretching, and a cooling step for carrying out secondary stretching of the heat treated organic piezoelectric material while the organic piezoelectric material is cooled down to the room temperature, and is characterized in that tension is applied continuously to the organic piezoelectric material from the primary stretching step to the cooling step without releasing the tension, and heat treatment is carried out while keeping the tension in a range of 0.1-500 kPa. A stretching method and a production method for producing an organic piezoelectric material exhibiting excellent planarity, machining characteristics and piezoelectric characteristics and suitable for high frequency and broadband are thereby provided, and an ultrasound transducer using the organic piezoelectric material produced by the method, and an ultrasound medical image diagnosis device are also provided. | 01-05-2012 |
20120000385 | LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL AND LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE - Disclosed is a negative type lithographic printing plate material comprising a surface-roughened and anodically oxidized aluminum substrate and a photosensitive layer provided thereon, characterized in that: said photosensitive layer comprises a novolac resin, which contains a binder resin (a), a crosslinking agent (b), an infrared-absorbing agent (c) and an acid-generating agent (d), and in which the binder resin (a) contains 20-100 mass % inclusive of a phenol part expressed in ratio by mass, and a polyvinylphenol polymer; the content ratio of the novolac resin to the polyvinylphenol polymer (the mass of the novolac resin:the mass of the polyvinylphenol polymer) is 7:3 to 3:7; and the ratio by mass [(b)/(a)] is 0.25 to 0.50 inclusive. After the lithographic printing plate material is subjected to plate-making to give a lithographic printing plate, an image part thereof has a high solvent resistance and an excellent fraction resistance and the lithographic printing plate can be subjected to near infrared laser exposure. Also disclosed is the lithographic printing plate. | 01-05-2012 |
20110317809 | PORTABLE RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - Disclosed in a portable radiation image capturing apparatus in which irradiation with radiation is detected without providing an interface with a radiation generating device and which consumes reduced power when capturing a radiation image. The portable radiation image capturing apparatus in which multiple image capturing elements are two-dimensionally arranged is provided with a current detecting means for detecting a current flowing in the apparatus, a read-out circuit having a power supply mode in which the charge generated in each image capturing element can be read out and converted into an electric signal and a stand-by mode in which charge is not read out and power is consumed less than in the power supply mode, and a control means for causing the read-out circuit to change from the stand-by mode to the power supply mode when detecting start of irradiation with radiation on the basis of an increase in the current value detected by the current detecting means while the read-out circuit is in the stand-by mode. | 12-29-2011 |
20110273509 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image by jetting inks in a plurality of colors includes a plurality of recording-head modules for jetting inks in the plurality of colors, and a carriage for mounting the plurality of recording-head modules, wherein each recording-head module includes a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink in the same color and constructs a unit capable of integrally attaching and detaching the plurality of recording heads to and from the carriage. | 11-10-2011 |
20110257532 | ULTRASONIC PROBE AND METHOD OF PREPARING ULTRASONIC PROBE - Provided is an ultrasonic probe possessing signal lines for which generation of the acoustic crosstalk between piezoelectric elements to each other constituting a piezoelectric element array, and also provided is a method of preparing the ultrasonic probe. Disclosed is an ultrasonic probe comprising a first piezoelectric element array in which first piezoelectric elements each as a both-sided electrodes-providing piezoelectric element are two-dimensionally arrayed; a second piezoelectric element array layered on the first piezoelectric element array; an acoustic separation section provided between the first piezoelectric elements to each other, arrayed in the first piezoelectric element array; and a signal line possessing a conductive layer coated on an outer circumferential surface of a core material and the core material having an acoustic impedance nearly equal to another acoustic impedance of the acoustic separation section, the signal line connected to the second electrode by passing through the acoustic separation section. | 10-20-2011 |
20110248186 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL - A scintillator panel which is capable of obtaining a radiation image exhibiting enhanced luminance and sharpness and achieving improved storage stability is disclosed, comprising on a support a base layer and a phosphor layer provided sequentially in this order, wherein the phosphor layer comprises (columnar) phosphor crystals formed of a phosphor parent compound and an activator by a process of vapor phase deposition and the base layer comprises crystals formed of the phosphor parent compound and an activator, and a relative density of the base layer is lower than a relative density of the phosphor layer and a relative content of an activator of the base layer is lower than a relative content of an activator of the phosphor layer. | 10-13-2011 |
20110244597 | IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC MEDIUM AND IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC METHOD - Disclosed are an immunochromatographic medium and an immunochromatographic method in which, even when plural items exceeding four items are detected which are the number of colors that can be detected by colored latex particles, the plural items can be detected and quantified simultaneously. The immunochromatographic medium comprises a support, a label-attached reagent immobilized on a labeling agent, and detection portions on which a material capable of combining with a substance to be detected in a sample is immobilized, the label-attached reagent and the detection portions being provided on the support, featured in that the labeling agent is a phosphor nanoparticle and the detection portions are shaped in the form of dots. | 10-06-2011 |
20110226339 | MICROCHIP AND LIQUID SENDING METHOD FOR MICROCHIP - A microchip capable of sending liquid in a micro flow channel to a predetermined place irrespective of the pressure difference and sending a mixture of two or more liquid masses to a predetermined place even if the channel structure is simple. The microchip comprises an intermediate reservoir portion provided in a micro flow channel and adapted for temporarily holding liquid sent through the micro flow channel. The microchip is characterized in that the intermediate reservoir portion has a side channel, the volume of the intermediate reservoir portion is smaller than the total volume of the liquid sent into the intermediate reservoir portion, the side channel is provided for communication of a micro flow channel on the upstream side of the intermediate reservoir portion with a micro flow channel on the downstream side thereof, and the cross-section area of the side channel is smaller than that of the micro flow channel. | 09-22-2011 |
20110224420 | SOLID SUPPORT - The present invention provides a solid support for performing steps of isolation of cell or extraction and purification of nucleic acid, safely, easily, efficiently, and with high yield in the genetic test for investigating the presence of pathogenic bacterial infection. A solid support for binding with cell as an embodiment of the above-described solid support, comprises a polypeptide having capability of binding with my colic acid-containing glycolipid which is immobilized on the surface of a carrier. In addition, a solid support for binding with nucleic acid as another embodiment of the above-described solid support, comprises a polypeptide having capability of binding with nucleic acid which is immobilized on the surface of a carrier. | 09-15-2011 |
20110204247 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL, RADIATION DETECTOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided are a scintillator panel and a radiation detector which give a radiation image reduced in sensitivity unevenness and sharpness unevenness. Also provided are processes for producing the scintillator and the detector. The scintillator panel comprises a support and, deposited thereon, a phosphor layer comprising columnar crystals of a phosphor which have been formed by the vapor deposition method. The panel is characterized in that the columnar crystals of a phosphor comprise cesium iodide (CsI) as a base ingredient and thallium (Tl) as an activator ingredient and have, in a root part thereof, a layer containing no thallium, and that the coefficient of variation in thallium concentration in the plane of the phosphor layer is 40% or less. | 08-25-2011 |
20110198968 | ARRAY-TYPE ULTRASONIC VIBRATOR - An array-type ultrasonic vibrator according to the present invention has an acoustic matching layer that has a plate-like body made of a material having a lower acoustic impedance than a plurality of piezoelectric elements. Signal wiring is formed on the plate-like body of the acoustic matching layer. Accordingly, for this array-type ultrasonic vibrator, the signal wiring can be easily formed without using additional components. | 08-18-2011 |
20110147601 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - A radiation image detector including: an internal power supply section, which is capable of being charged, to supply power to each section; an external power supply terminal to receive power from an external power source to allow the internal power supply section to be charged; and a power supply control section to control supply of the power to the internal power supply section, the power being received from the external power source via the external power supply terminal, wherein when detecting that the external power supply terminal receives power from the external power source, the power supply control section judges an operating state of each section, and controls supply of the power to the internal power supply section according to the operating state of each section, the power being received from the external power source via the external power supply terminal. | 06-23-2011 |
20110147408 | MICROCHIP, MICROCHIP LIQUID SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND MICROCHIP LIQUID SUPPLY METHOD - Provided is a microchip which is capable of determining the quantity of the liquid in the chip and dividing the liquid, and has a relatively simple flow passage structure. In the microchip liquid supply system, a portion of the liquid in an upstream passage among the liquid injected into a first flow passage is supplied from a liquid discharge passage by operating a suction pump connected to a liquid supply passage in such a state that an air vent hole is closed. Thereafter, the suction pump is operated with the air vent hole closed, whereby a portion of the liquid in a quantity determination passage among the liquid injected into the first flow passage is supplied from a liquid supply passage. | 06-23-2011 |
20110131234 | INFORMATION PROCESS SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a technology to shorten the time required for a process extracting a portion of the information from a database including a large amount of information indicating each of element combinations. In order to accomplish the above object, an information process system includes a first database in which a large amount of combination information indicating combinations of a plurality of elements composed of one or more elements associated with each item is accumulated, a second database in which a portion of the combination information included in the first database is accumulated, an extracting unit extracting information corresponding to an extraction condition from the second database in accordance with the designation of the extraction condition including information specifying the second database by the user, and an output unit visually outputting a list of the information in which one or more elements are associated with each item, on the basis of the information extracted by the extracting unit. | 06-02-2011 |
20110108710 | PORTABLE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTOR AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM - Provided are a portable radiographic image detector capable of transmitting with a smaller number of transmissions the read results of dark reads performed a plurality of times when an offset calibration or the like is carried out, and a radiographic image generation system using the portable radiographic image detector. The portable radiographic image detector comprises: a sensor panel in which a plurality of radiation detector elements are disposed in a two-dimensional shape; a storage means for storing dark read values outputted from the radiation detector elements under the condition that radiation is not irradiated; a calculation means for calculating the offset correction value for each of the radiation detector elements, based on a plurality of dark read values obtained from the outputs of the radiation detector elements at every dark read of a plurality of times of dark reads performed in advance; a communication means for transmitting the offset correction value for each of the radiation detector elements to an | 05-12-2011 |
20110105889 | NANOPARTICLE LABELING AND SYSTEM USING NANOPARTICLE LABELING - A nanoparticle labeling which is simultaneously usable in the combination of X-ray imaging with optical imaging and the combination of X-ray imaging and optical imaging with magnetic resonance imaging characterized by comprising core/shell type semiconductor nanoparticles having an average shell thickness of 0.1 nm or more but not more than 10.0 nm together with an X-ray sensitive material for the former combination, and core/shell type semiconductor nanoparticles having an average shell thickness of 0.1 nm or more but not more than 10.0 nm together with an X-ray sensitive material and magnetic particles for the latter combination. | 05-05-2011 |
20110069814 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - Provided is a radiation image capturing system wherein image capturing conditions can be appropriately set up for a radiation generating apparatus associated with a bucky device in an environment ready for capturing images by inserting either a CR cassette or an FPD cassette into the bucky device which can accept both a CR cassette and an FPD cassette. The radiation image capturing system is equipped with a radiation generating apparatus, a bucky device a portable FPD cassette, a CR cassette, and a console having a display section for displaying icons corresponding to the usable bucky device and the portable FPD cassette. | 03-24-2011 |
20110024633 | CASSETTE TYPE RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - Disclosed is a cassette type radiation image detector, serving as an FPD that makes it possible to achieve the digitalization of image data. The detector includes: a detection unit to detect incident radiation to generate radiation image data and a housing that includes a main section formed in shape of a rectangular hollow cylinder at both ends of which opening sections are provided, and a first covering member and a second covering member, each of which is engaged with the main section by using an engaging member, to cover each of the opening sections, and that accommodates the detection unit therein. The main section is formed in such a manner that a first direction of carbon fibers included in a radiation incident surface and a second direction of carbon fibers included in an opposite surface are inclined relative to the opening sections, respectively, and are different from each other. | 02-03-2011 |
20110021918 | ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ULTRASONIC OSCILLATOR, AND ULTRASONIC MEDICAL IMAGING INSTRUMENT - Disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material film which has little contaminants and has excellent piezoelectric properties. The organic piezoelectric material film is produced by casting a solution of an organic piezoelectric material in an organic solvent and subsequently drying the resulting product. The organic piezoelectric material film has a moisture content of 0.1 mass % or less. | 01-27-2011 |
20110021917 | ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF ULTRASONIC OSCILLATOR USING THE SAME, AND ULTRASONIC MEDICAL IMAGING INSTRUMENT - Disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material film which has little contaminants and has excellent piezoelectric properties. The organic piezoelectric material film is produced by a solution casting process using, as raw materials, a raw material for an organic piezoelectric material and a crushed product which is produced by crushing a material produced by a solution casting process and is mainly composed of an organic piezoelectric material. | 01-27-2011 |
20110021916 | ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, ULTRASONIC OSCILLATOR USING THE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE ULTRASONIC OSCILLATOR, ULTRASONIC PROBE, AND ULTRASONIC MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING DEVICE - Provided is an organic piezoelectric material which has excellent piezoelectric property, heat resistance property in particular. An ultrasonic oscillator, which is to be used for an ultrasonic medical diagnostic imaging device which can receive high frequencies at high sensitivity and is suitable for harmonic imaging techniques, a method for manufacturing such oscillator, and an ultrasonic probe are also provided. The ultrasonic medical diagnostic imaging device is provided by sing such oscillator, method and probe. The organic piezoelectric material is characterized by containing empty particles having an average particle diameter of 10 μm or less. | 01-27-2011 |
20110020241 | FLUORESCENT LABELING AGENT CONTAINING QUANTUM DOTS - Disclosed is a fluorescent labeling agent containing quantum dots, which exhibits little fluctuation in luminous properties in accordance with the environment where the fluorescent labeling agent is stored and therefore has high environmental stability, and which has high luminous intensity. Specifically disclosed is a fluorescent labeling agent containing quantum dots, which comprises: (1) a fluorescent labeling agent core part which comprises at least three quantum dots per a fluorescent labeling agent and a protective material; and (2) an organic surface-coating layer which coats the fluorescent labeling agent core part, wherein the fluorescent labeling agent core part has an average particle diameter of 10 to 50 nm. | 01-27-2011 |
20110017925 | RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL - A radiation image conversion panel which is excellent in luminance and sharpness is disclosed, comprising a phosphor layer formed on a support by a process of vapor growth, and the support comprising a resin and exhibiting a linear thermal expansion coefficient of 20 to 70 ppm/° C. | 01-27-2011 |
20110004102 | ORGANIC PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, ULTRASONIC OSCILLATOR USING THE SAME, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE ULTRASONIC OSCILLATOR, ULTRASONIC PROBE AND ULTRASONIC MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material which has particularly excellent heat resistance, while exhibiting excellent transparency, surface gloss, adhesion and piezoelectric characteristics. Also disclosed are an ultrasonic oscillator used in an ultrasonic medical diagnostic imaging device, which is capable of highly sensitively receiving a high frequency wave and suitable for harmonic imaging technique, a method for producing the ultrasonic oscillator, an ultrasonic probe, and an ultrasonic medical diagnostic imaging device. The organic piezoelectric material is characterized in that the piezoelectric material is formed by laminating two or more films at the same time by a coating process. | 01-06-2011 |
20100324930 | IMAGING MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL USE - Provided is an image management apparatus for medical use which allows a small-scale medical treatment facility such as a practitioner to easily and efficiently associate image data generated by an image generation apparatus with patient information. The image management apparatus for medical use is equipped with a storage section ( | 12-23-2010 |
20100320867 | Array type ultrasound probe, manufacturing method and driving method of array type ultrasound probe - A driving method of an array type ultrasound probe, in which transmission and reception are carried out by changing a voltage load alternatively on the transmission piezoelectric element and the reception piezoelectric element. | 12-23-2010 |
20100315469 | Inkjet Recording Apparatus - An inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image by jetting inks in a plurality of colors includes a plurality of recording-head modules for jetting inks in the plurality of colors, and a carriage for mounting the plurality of recording-head modules, wherein each recording-head module includes a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink in the same color and constructs a unit capable of integrally attaching and detaching the plurality of recording heads to and from the carriage. | 12-16-2010 |
20100315465 | Inkjet Recording Apparatus - An inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image by jetting inks in a plurality of colors includes a plurality of recording-head modules for jetting inks in the plurality of colors, and a carriage for mounting the plurality of recording-head modules, wherein each recording-head module includes a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink in the same color and constructs a unit capable of integrally attaching and detaching the plurality of recording heads to and from the carriage. | 12-16-2010 |
20100314547 | SCINTILLATOR PLATE, SCINTILLATOR PANEL AND FLAT PANEL RADIATION DETECTOR BY USE THEREOF - There is provided a scintillator plate which is superior in productivity, exhibits enhanced light extraction efficiency of a scintillator and enhanced sharpness and results in reduced deterioration in sharpness between flat light-receiving element surfaces. There are also provided a scintillator panel and a flat panel radiation detector by use thereof. | 12-16-2010 |
20100304502 | DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION KIT - A detection method for detecting a substance such as a virus which achieves enhanced detection sensitivity even in trace amounts of a substance to be detected and is also simple and superior in visual determinability is disclosed, comprising contacting a complex of a substance to be detected and a semiconductor nanoparticle-labeled probe capable of bonding the substance with an immobilized capture reagent capable of bonding the substance to detect the substance. A detection kit is also disclosed. | 12-02-2010 |
20100304498 | MICROCHIP REACTION DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REACTION OF MICROCHIP IN FLOW PATH - Disclosed is a microchip reaction detection system comprising: a microchip comprising a driving liquid injection unit into which a driving liquid for driving a solution is injected and a detection unit on which a substance to be reacted is supported and where the reaction between the substance and the solution is detected; a driving liquid pump for injecting the driving liquid into the driving liquid injection unit; an air pump for injecting a gas into the detection unit; and a control unit for controlling the driving liquid pump so that the driving liquid can be injected into the driving liquid injection unit and also controlling the air pump so that the gas can be injected into the detection unit intermittently in an amount at least effective for pushing away the solution injected in the detection unit while feeding the solution to the detection unit. | 12-02-2010 |
20100272650 | SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE, AND FLUORESCENT LABELING SUBSTANCE AND MOLECULE/CELL IMAGING METHOD BY USE THEREOF - There is provided semiconductor nanoparticles which exhibit enhanced emission efficiency, excellent emission intensity, reduced variation range of emission characteristics among lots and among particles and are excellent in stability and reproducibility. There is further provided a fluorescent labeling agent and molecule/cell imaging method by use of the same. Semiconductor nanoparticles having an average particle size of 1 to 20 nm is disclosed, comprising a dopant of a heteroatom which is identical in valence electron configuration with a main component atom forming the semiconductor nanoparticles or an atomic pair of the heteroatom, and the dopant is distributed on or near a surface of the semiconductor nanoparticles. | 10-28-2010 |
20100261290 | Method of reaction in flow channel of microchip and analysis device - In the case of passing a reagent in a reaction channel in a microchip, which carries a reactant capable of reacting with the reagent on the wall thereof, and bringing the reactant into contact with the reagent so as to carry out a reaction, the reagent is efficiently passed to the reactant to thereby promote the progress of the reaction. In carrying out the reaction as described above, the reagent ( | 10-14-2010 |
20100258730 | CASSETTE TYPE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE SOLID-STATE DETECTOR - A cassette type radiographic image solid-sate detector that is an FPD compatible with a CR cassette thin-shaped with s sufficient strength, capable of preventing a housing from being deformed by external stress to deal with an external shock, and capable of portable radiography. The cassette type radiographic image solid-state detector comprises a detector unit including a scintillator layer for converting incident radiation into light and a signal detecting section for receiving the light obtained by the conversion by the scintillator layer and converting the light to an electrical signal, a housing including a housing body formed of carbon fibers and a first cover member and a second cover member covering openings of the housing body and containing the detector unit. The thickness of the housing in the direction of incidence of the radiation conforms to JIS Z 4905. At least one of the cover members is structured to be insertable into the detector unit. | 10-14-2010 |
20100255462 | FLUORESCENT MARKER FOR LIVING ORGANISM AND FLUORESCENT MARKING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A fluorescent marker comprising inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles having on a surface of the nanoparticles a modifying group containing a reactive portion, wherein the reactive portion is located at a most remote site of the modifying group from the surface of the nanoparticles; the reactive portion comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of bases consisting of DNA or RNA, nucleotides, polynucleotides and intercalators; and the reactive portion is capable of specifically binding to a living organism. | 10-07-2010 |
20100254512 | DYNAMIC RADIOGRAPHING SYSTEM - A dynamic radiographing system enables determination of an evaluation value of the heart function of a subject by plain radiography. The dynamic radiographing system comprises a radiographing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and a console for diagnosis. The radiographing apparatus dynamically radiographs the heart of a subject and creates radiographs in plural time phases (Step S | 10-07-2010 |
20100248386 | SEMICONDUCTOR PHOSPHOR NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLY, PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF AND SINGLE MOLECULE OBSERVATION METHOD BY USE THEREOF - The present invention provide a semiconductor phosphor nanoparticle assembly which exhibits no variation in emission wavelength and emission intensity for every particle and is capable of achieving stable evaluation when performing a single molecule observation by using an assembly of semiconductor phosphor nanoparticles as a fluorescence labeling agent, a production method thereof and a single molecule observation method by use thereof. The production method of the semiconductor phosphor nanoparticle assembly, which is performed by a liquid phase process or a gas phase process, comprises the steps of forming nuclear particles and allowing the nuclear particles to grow or fuse, wherein a concentration by number of the formed nuclear particles is not more than a specific concentration. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246925 | DYNAMIC IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - It is possible to improve a diagnostic performance by a dynamic image and in particular, to provide information effective for diagnosis of the lung ventilation function. Provided is a dynamic image capturing system including: a calculation device which calculates a dynamic feature amount according to a plurality of frame images of the dynamic image captured by an imaging device; and a diagnosis console which displays the frame images of the captured dynamic image as a dynamic image display or a still image display on a display screen of a display unit and colors at least one of the frame images with a color in accordance with a calculation result of a feature amount obtained by the calculation device. In the diagnosis of the lung ventilation function, the breast portion of an examinee is dynamically imaged over a plurality of time phases to calculate a feature amount and an estimated ventilation amount at each of the time phases, so that the calculation results are displayed on the display screen. | 09-30-2010 |
20100243908 | Flat Panel Detector - Provided is a flat panel detector which prevents aging deterioration of characteristics of a phosphor layer, protects the phosphor layer from chemical alteration or physical impact, and maintains a stable contact state between a scintillator panel and a flat light receiving element. Disclosed is a flat panel detector comprising a scintillator panel comprising a scintillator provided with a phosphor layer on a substrate and a protective layer covering the phosphor surface of the scintillator, and the scintillator panel being placed on the surface of a flat light receiving element comprising plural picture elements which are two-dimensionally arranged, wherein a re-releasable adhesive layer is provided on the protective layer surface. | 09-30-2010 |
20100232986 | MICRO TOTAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH LEAKAGE PREVENTION MECHANISM - A micro total analysis system, comprising: an examination chip provided with a micro flow path and a flow path opening section communicating with a micropump on the upstream side of a reagent containing section, a drive fluid tank containing drive fluid, a micropump unit provided with a plurality of the micropumps such that the upstream side of each micropump communicates with the drive fluid tank and a flow path opening communicating with the micro flow path of the examination chip is provided on the downstream side, and a system body including the micropump unit and the drive fluid tank in one storing body, wherein analysis is performed while the examination chip is attached to the system body, and a mechanism for altering the direction of pressure at the flow path opening of the micropump unit depending on attaching/detaching of the examination chip to/from the system main body is provided. | 09-16-2010 |
20100221663 | LIGHT SENSITIVE PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL, AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD EMPLOYING THE SAME - The present invention provides a light sensitive planographic printing plate material which excels in printing durability and tone reproduction property in high resolution printing as in FM screening, and an image formation method employing the light sensitive planographic printing plate material. The light sensitive planographic printing plate material is characterized in that a light sensitive layer containing a light sensitive composition containing an addition polymerizable ethylenic double bond-containing compound, a bisimidazole compound as a photopolymerization initiator, a polymer binder and a photosensitizing dye is provided on a support obtained by subjecting one surface of an aluminum plate to (1) chemically etching treatment in an aqueous alkali solution, (2) electrochemically roughening treatment in an aqueous nitric acid solution, (3) chemically etching treatment in an aqueous alkali solution, (4) electrochemically roughening treatment in an aqueous hydrochloric acid solution, (5) chemically etching treatment in an aqueous alkali solution, and (6) anodizing treatment. | 09-02-2010 |
20100211615 | DATABASE SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - The present invention aims to provide a technique enabling an information added by another user to be referenced and enabling the range of the information the user references from a database to be customized A related information database in which a plurality of elements are accumulated is prepared, and an output setting information in which an information relating to the output of an additional information is associated with each other, in response to the additional writing of the additional information by a certain user to the related information database is stored. The output setting information of the certain user can be changed by the user. A portion of information is extracted from the related information database in accordance with an input of an extraction condition by the user, and the portion of information is visually output according to information relating to the output of the user. | 08-19-2010 |
20100210030 | ASSEMBLY OF SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE PHOSPHORS, PREPARATION METHOD OF THE SAME AND SINGLE-MOLECULE OBSERVATION METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed are an assembly of semiconductor nanoparticle phosphors, which can provide stable evaluation without variation in emission wavelength or in intensity of emission among the particles when used as a labeling agent through which a single-molecule observation is carried out, a preparation method of the assembly, and a single-molecule observation method employing the assembly. Also disclosed is a method for preparing an assembly of semiconductor nanoparticle phosphors according to a liquid phase method, the method comprising the step of reacting a semiconductor precursor at a temperature which is not lower than the melting point of the semiconductor precursor and is not higher than the boiling point of a solvent. | 08-19-2010 |
20100194777 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method and device for converting monochromatic image data into color display image data, characterized in that the display characteristics are obtained, candidate color display image is selected according to the signal value of the monochromatic image data, at least either target brightness information or target chromatic information at least one of the brightness and chromaticity comprised in the candidate color display image data is calculated based on the display characteristics, the signal value of the color display image data corresponding to the signal value of the monochromatic image data is determined from the candidate color display image data based on at least one of the comparison between each calculated brightness and the target brightness and the comparison between each chromaticity and the target chromaticity, and the signal value of the monochromatic image data is associated with that of the determined color display image data. | 08-05-2010 |
20100171682 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A medical image display apparatus is provided with improvement in operability in adding and correcting annotations and convenience for use. An annotation registration table for storing modality information, testing portion information, and annotation, which are correspondingly associated to each other, is prepared in advance in a memory. A CPU of a testing-image device stores medical image data received from a modality in a testing-image waiting list table. The CPU extracts the modality information and the testing portion information from header information that the medical image data designated by an operation of an input unit contain. The CPU reads out annotation data consistent with the modality information and the testing portion information from the annotation registration table. The CPU displays the read-out annotation data on a display unit and updates the medical image data by attaching the selected annotation data to a place on coordinates designated on a medical image. | 07-08-2010 |
20100171076 | NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT-EMITTING PHOSPHOR NANOPARTICLES, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE LABELING AGENT EMPLOYING THE SAME - Disclosed are near-infrared light-emitting phosphor nanoparticles with an extremely small particle size, which emit light with a high intensity of emission and which are suitable for a biological substance labeling agent, a method for manufacturing the same, and a biological substance labeling agent employing the same. The near-infrared light-emitting phosphor nanoparticles of the invention are near-infrared light-emitting phosphor nanoparticles with an average particle size of from 2 to 50 nm, which when excited by a near-infrared light with a wavelength in the range of from 700 to 900 nm, emit a near-infrared light with a wavelength in the range of from 700 to 2000 nm, the nanoparticles being characterized in that at least a part of the composition is represented by a specific formula. | 07-08-2010 |
20100169423 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a radiographic image capturing system, in which a portable-type radiographic image detecting device provided with a wireless communication section is included, and a correlation established between the FPD and the console can be easily changed. The system further includes a plurality of controlling terminal devices, each of which displays a radiation image; a communication information attaching section to attach communication information to the radiation image data; an access point that is correlated with corresponding one of the controlling terminal devices, and transfers the radiation image data, which is received by the wireless communication section in the wireless communication mode within a predetermined area of a radiographing room, into the network; and a correlation controlling section that correlates the radiographic image detecting device with the corresponding one of the controlling terminal devices so as to establish a correlation establishment between them, based on the communication information. | 07-01-2010 |
20100157155 | DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE - A display processing device where operation for displaying medical images is facilitated and smooth. In the display processing device, display layout information determined corresponding to region segments set for a display region is stored in a storage section. When an operation section specifies at which position on the display screen a medical image is to be displayed, a control section determines a region segment in the display region to which the specified display position belongs, and reads, from the storage section, display layout information corresponding to the region segment. Then, according to the read display layout information, the control section splits the display region and displays the medical image, and changes the display layout of the medical image. | 06-24-2010 |
20100150413 | ABNORMAL SHADOW CANDIDATE DETECTING METHOD AND ABNORMAL SHADOW CANDIDATE DETECTING DEVICE - To restrict the number of false positives at the time of detecting an abnormal shadow candidate to improve detecting accuracy and shorten a processing time when detecting an abnormal candidate. An image processing device produces image data (D | 06-17-2010 |
20100144917 | ACTINIC ENERGY RADIATION HARDENABLE COMPOSITION AND EPOXY COMPOUND - The invention is to provide an epoxy compound or an actinic energy radiation hardenable composition each having high safety and stability, and to provide an actinic energy radiation hardenable composition with excellent photo-hardenability under high humidity, which gives high solvent resistance, high water proof and a hardened layer with high strength. There is provided an actinic energy radiation hardenable composition containing an epoxy compound represented by the following formula (1). | 06-10-2010 |
20100141695 | INK-JET RECORDING DEVICE AND INK-JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink-jet recording device and method capable of recording a high-quality image with no conspicuous joint belt-like line formed along the border portions between bands each of which is formed by horizontal scannings by serial recording. A band having a width corresponding to a predetermined amount M of movement is formed by (n+1) recording scannings. The ink-jet recording device has a control unit ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100128957 | BONE DISEASE EVALUATING SYSTEM - A bone disease evaluating system comprising a radiation source for emitting radiation toward an image subject including bones, a detector for detecting a radiation phase contrast image showing the phase contrast of radiation emitted from the radiation source and transmitted through the bones, a joint recognizing section for recognizing a joint of the bones from the phase contrast image, and a profile obtaining section for obtaining a shape profile showing the change of shape of the joint from the recognized joint and a frequency analyzing section for performing frequency analysis of the obtained shape profile and an index calculating section for calculating an index concerning a disease of the joint on the basis of the result of the frequency analysis. | 05-27-2010 |
20100119041 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM - There is described a radiological image capturing apparatus, which makes it possible to obtain a good X ray image in which contrast of the peripheral portions are emphasized by employing the Talbot interferometer method and the Talbot-Lau interferometer method. The apparatus is provided with an X-ray tube, a multi-slit member, a first diffraction grating, a second diffraction grating and an X-ray detector. The second diffraction grating contacts the X-ray detector. A distance L between the multi-slit element and the first diffraction grating is set to be not less than 0.5 m, a distance Z | 05-13-2010 |
20100117006 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL - A scintillator panel exhibiting enhanced emission luminance is disclosed, comprising a phosphor layer containing a phosphor capable of emitting light upon exposure to radiation, a substrate supporting the phosphor layer and a protective film covering the phosphor layer and the substrate, wherein the phosphor layer comprises two or more layers, and satisfying the following expression 1: | 05-13-2010 |
20100117005 | CLEANING METHOD OF RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL, AND METHOD OF READING IMAGE INFORMATION AND IMAGE INFORMATION READING APPARATUS - It is a feature that in the present invention, provided is a method of cleaning a radiation image conversion panel possessing a substrate and provided thereon, a phosphor layer, and further possessing a protective layer provided on the phosphor layer, wherein a surface of the protective layer is cleaned by moving a cleaning member, while applying a pressure of 1 mN/cm | 05-13-2010 |
20100116992 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL AND RADIATION FLAT PANEL DETECTOR - There are provided a scintillator panel excellent in productivity and exhibiting enhanced emission-extracting efficiency and sharpness, resulting in reduced deterioration in sharpness between planar light-receiving element, and a radiation flat panel detector. The scintillator panel comprises a scintillator plate, wherein the scintillator plate comprises a protective layer comprising the first protective film provided on the side of the scintillator layer and the second protective film provided on the side of the substrate opposite the scintillator layer and the protective layer has a lug which is a sealed portion of the first protective film and the second protective film, and the length of the lug of the protective layer is represented by a specific expression, the first protective film is not adhered to the scintillator layer and the scintillator plate is provided as a constituent element for a radiation flat panel detector without being physicochemically adhered to the surface of a planar light receiving element. | 05-13-2010 |
20100114608 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Disclosed a medical image display system including: a control member to allow an electric medical record system which manages electric medical record data and a medical image management system which manages a series of various pieces of processing data from photographing to displaying of a medical image to work in concert with each other; and a display member to display a screen to show the electric medical record data and a screen to show the various pieces of processing data wherein the control member changes a displaying status and a display order of the screens displayed in the display member depending on a kind of cooperative operation between the electric medical record system and the medical image management system. | 05-06-2010 |
20100108912 | SCINTILLATOR PLATE - A scintillator plate which is excellent in sharpness and luminance is disclosed, comprising sequentially on a substrate a reflection layer and a scintillator layer containing cesium iodide and an activator and having a thickness of L, wherein the following requirement (1) is met: | 05-06-2010 |
20100104065 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM AND CONTROL DEVICE - A radiographic image photographing system and its control device surely correlates radiographing order information with radiographic image data and facilitates radiographing work. A control section of a tag reader reads out inherent information stored in a tag in a radiation image detecting device. A control section of a radiographing operation apparatus receives the inherent information of the radiation image detecting device from the tag and stores it in a storing section. In response to an input from an input operation section, the control section correlates each piece of radiographing order information with a cassette ID of the radiation image detecting device and stores this correlation information in the storing section. | 04-29-2010 |
20100096599 | CORE/SHELL TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - Disclosed are core/shell type semiconductor nanoparticles exhibiting a sufficient emission intensity without causing a blink phenomenon (blinking). The core/shell-type semiconductor nanoparticles have an average particle size of from 2 to 50 nm and comprise an intermediate layer between a core portion and a shell portion, wherein band gap widths of bulk crystals which have the same compositions as those of the core portion, the intermediate portion and the shell portion, respectively, are in the order of:
| 04-22-2010 |
20100092769 | SCINTILLATOR PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a scintillator panel having excellent sharpness and graininess. In the scintillator panel, the scintillator panel and a surface of a planar light receiving element can be brought into uniform contact with each other within the surface, and deterioration of sharpness between the scintillator panel surface and the surface of the planar light receiving element is reduced. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing such scintillator panel is also provided. The scintillator panel is provided by arranging a phosphor layer composed of phosphor columnar crystal on a polymer film substrate. A leading end portion of the phosphor columnar crystal is flattened by pressurized thermal processing. | 04-15-2010 |
20100092752 | RESIN MOLDED BODY, MICROCHIP, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a resin molded body which is good in fillability of the resin and releasability of the molded body, while enabling to form micro recesses and projections having a size from hundreds nm to hundreds μm with high precision. This resin molded body is characterized by comprising a micro three-dimensional shape portion having a width A, a height B and a length C, with A being not less than 5 μm and not more than 100 μm, B/A being not less than 1 and not more than 10 and C/A being not less than 0.5 and not more than 1.5. The resin molded body is also characterized in that it is formed by injection molding using a thermoplastic resin having a flexural modulus of not less than 100 MPa and not more than 1500 MPa. | 04-15-2010 |
20100086795 | RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL - Disclosed is radiation image conversion panel exhibiting excellent luminance moisture resistance (excellent durability during storage specifically at high temperature and high humidity). | 04-08-2010 |
20100080436 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - A radiographic imaging device for capturing an excellent X-ray image in which the contrast of edge portions such as a cartilage tissue of a human body is enhanced by using a Talbot interferometer, and a radiographic imaging system for processing the captured image. The radiographic imaging device comprises an X-ray tube for applying X-rays having an average energy of 15 to 60 keV, a first diffraction grating for diffracting X-rays transmitted through a subject (H) to produce the Talbot effect, a second diffraction grating for diffracting X-rays diffracted by the first diffraction grating, and an X-ray detector for detecting X-rays diffracted by the second diffraction grating. The second diffraction grating is disposed in contact with the X-ray detector. The distance L between the X-ray tube and the first diffraction grating is 0.5 m or more. The distance Z | 04-01-2010 |
20100079566 | INK-JET HEAD, INK-JET PRINTER, AND INK-JET RECORDING METHOD - Disclosed is an inkjet recording method wherein an image is formed on a recording medium by spraying an ink containing at least a photopolymerizable compound onto the recording medium through a nozzle of an inkjet head. This inkjet recording method enables to perform a stable image recording by suppressing formation of a precipitate in the head. This inkjet recording method is characterized in that in an inkjet head, which is used for forming an image on a recording medium by spraying an inkjet ink containing at least a photopolymerizable compound through a nozzle, the surface of at least a part of metals constituting the internal member of the inkjet head which is in contact with the inkjet ink is subjected to a passivation treatment or an insulation coating treatment. | 04-01-2010 |
20100054566 | MEDICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In a medical image management system, the network load can be reduced and the network resources can be effectively used. A console ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100051837 | RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL - Disclosed is a radiation image conversion panel containing a support having thereon a phosphor layer containing an alkali metal halide phosphor which is deposited on the support by a gas phase accumulation method, wherein the alkali metal halide phosphor includes a columnar crystal and an existing ratio of an activation agent of the columnar crystal on a surface of the columnar crystal to an inner portion of the columnar crystal is from 0.7 to 20. | 03-04-2010 |
20100049548 | MEDICAL IMAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Conformation of a medical image is facilitated. A medical image system includes an electronic medical record terminal and an image server. The electronic medical record terminal creates order information on medical images stored in the image server and stores it. Medical images created according to the order information are stored in the image server. The image server manages medical images together with information on the medical images based on the order information as additional information. The electronic medical record terminal acquires a medical image and the additional information from the image server, judges on the basis of the acquired additional information on the medical image and instruction information on the stored medical image whether or not the acquired medical image is the one complying with the instruction information, and outputs the judgment result. | 02-25-2010 |
20100044673 | LABELING FLUORESCENT COMPOUND - A labeling fluorescent compound which enables highly stable detection in vital labeling and has high sensitivity. The labeling fluorescent compound is characterized by being composed of inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles which have a surface modification compound disposed on the surface thereof and have an average particle diameter of 1.0-20 nm. It is further characterized in that the proportion of the length of the surface modification compound as measured from the surface of the inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles to the particle diameter of the inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles is from 0.10 to 0.50, and that the proportion of the specific gravity of the inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles having the surface modification compound fixed thereto to the specific gravity of the inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles not having the surface modification compound is from 0.80 to 0.40. | 02-25-2010 |
20100043190 | ULTRASOUND PROBE AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - An ultrasound probe comprising a transmitting piezoelectric layer, an electrode layer and a receiving piezoelectric layer laminated in that order, the ultrasound probe transmitting and receiving an ultrasound, wherein a polarization treatment on the receiving piezoelectric layer is carried out by providing a peelable dielectric layer on the receiving piezoelectric layer. | 02-25-2010 |
20100042003 | SMALL-SCALE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A small-scale diagnostic system and a display control method are provided. In the diagnostic system while image data on a patient is displayed on a screen of a medical image control device, when image data on another patient is received from an image generating device, and the medical doctor wants to display the received image data on the another patient on the screen for examining the image and diagnosing the another patient, the displayed image on the screen can be switched to that of the image data on the another patient by a simple operation of depressing a patient selection button. This enables the medical doctor to perform image diagnosis efficiently in a small-scale facility such as a clinic. | 02-18-2010 |
20100041017 | FLUORESCENT SEMICONDUCTOR MICROPARTICLE ASSEMBLY, FLUORESCENT LABELING AGENT ASSEMBLY FOR BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE, AND BIOIMAGING METHOD AND BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE ANALYSIS METHOD USING THE ASSEMBLIES - Disclosed is a fluorescent semiconductor microparticle assembly comprising at least three kinds of fluorescent semiconductor microparticles with an average particle size of from 1 to 10 nm, having the same chemical composition, a different average particle size and a different emission maximum wavelength in the emission spectra, wherein a standard deviation of emission intensity in each of the at least three kinds of fluorescent semiconductor microparticles is not more than 15%. | 02-18-2010 |
20100040978 | PHOTOSENSITIVE LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL - A lithographic printing plate material that is suitable for exposure with laser beams of 350 to 450 nm emission wavelength, being highly sensitive and excelling in developability. The lithographic printing plate material is a photosensitive lithographic printing plate material with a photosensitive layer containing (A) polymerization initiator, (B) compound having an ethylenic double bond, (C) sensitizing dye and (D) polymer binder, characterized in that the photosensitive layer contains, as polymerizable ethylenic double bond having compound (B), a reaction product obtained by reaction of (BM1) compound having in each molecule at least one polymerizable ethylenic double bond and one hydroxyl and (BM2) compound having in each molecule one secondary amino and one hydroxyl with (BM3) diisocyanate compound, wherein the ratio of BM1(mole)/BM2(mole) is in the range of 2.4 to 38.0. | 02-18-2010 |
20100038626 | SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE LABELING AGENT UTILIZING THE SAME - This invention provides a semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate comprising three or more types of semiconductor nanoparticles, which are different from each other in diameter, have a narrow particle size distribution, and are different from each other in maximum luminous wavelength of an emission spectrum in a wavelength region of 380 nm to 650 nm, a process for producing the semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate, and a biological substance labeling agent utilizing the semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate. The semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate comprises three or more types of semiconductor nanoparticles which have an identical chemical composition, are different from each other in particle diameter and fall within a particle diameter range of 1.8 to 4 nm and are different from each other in maximum luminous wavelength of an emission spectrum in a wavelength range of 380 to 650 nm. The semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate is characterized in that the difference in maximum luminous wavelength among three or more types of semiconductor nanoparticles constituting the semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate is in the range of 20 to 100 nm. | 02-18-2010 |
20100028896 | ROTARY EXTRACTION CONTAINER AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING CELL SPECIES, METHOD OF DETECTING GENE, AND AUTOMATIC NUCLEIC ACID EXTRACTOR USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a rotary extraction container enabling to safely and simply perform extraction and separation of a target substance from a sample containing plural substances. Specifically, there is disclosed a rotary extraction container enabling to simply perform extraction and separation of a nucleic acid from a biological sample or from a bio-derived sample without any risk of infection, contamination or the like, which has conventionally required cumbersome operations and a large, expensive apparatus. Further, there is disclosed a method of identifying a cell species a method of detecting a gene and an automatic nucleic acid extractor using the same. The foregoing rotary extraction container, which is a rotary extraction container to extract a target substance from a sample comprises a cylindrical container section, a rotating section and a cover section, and a solution or solid contained in any one of the small chambers of the cylindrical container section is allowed to transfer to another of the small chambers by an operation including rotation of the rotating section and the target substance is extracted from the sample by such an operation including the transfer. | 02-04-2010 |
20100028206 | MICROCHIP AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MICROCHIP - A microchip having: two flow path substrates having flow paths in a shape of a groove formed on one side of each substrate thereof; and a communication hole substrate on which a communication hole is formed to communicate the flow paths of the two substrates each other; wherein the two substrates are bonded in a way that the surfaces, on which the flow paths in the shape of the groove formed, face each other, having the communication hole substrate therebetween. | 02-04-2010 |
20100015336 | ACTIVE RAY-CURABLE INK AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE - An active ray-curable ink comprising a pigment, a photoinitiator, a polymerizable compound, a compound represented by following Formula (1), and a urethane polymer or a urethane oligomer having no photopolymerizable group in a molecule: | 01-21-2010 |
20100007708 | ACTINIC RAY CURABLE COMPOSITION, ACTINIC RAY CURABLE INK, IMAGE FORMATION METHOD EMPLOYING IT, AND INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The actinic ray curable composition has a radically, photopolymerizable compound, and a non-reactive compound having a viscosity at 25° C. of from 0.1 to 20 mPa·s and a boiling point of not less than 150° C. | 01-14-2010 |
20090325814 | BIOMOLECULE DETECTION REAGENT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOMOLECULE USING THE SAME - A biomolecule detection reagent comprising a semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate, wherein each semiconductor nanoparticle, constituting the semiconductor nanoparticle aggregate, has detection molecules binding specifically with biomolecules on its surface, and a standard deviation of numbers of the detection molecules existing on each semiconductor nanoparticle, is 5% or less. | 12-31-2009 |
20090311621 | SUPPORT FOR PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL EMPLOYING THE SAME - An objective is to provide a light sensitive planographic printing plate material exhibiting excellent tone reproduction, printing durability and anti-stain property during printing at high printing pressure; a support employed for the material; a manufacturing method thereof; and a plate-making method of the light sensitive planographic printing plate material. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing a support for a planographic printing plate material, possessing the steps of conducting specific treatments on an aluminum plate as the support in that order, wherein the aluminum plate in each of the following methods comprises a Mg content of 0.1-0.4% by weight, a Ga content of 0.001-0.02% by weight, and an Al content of at least 99.0% by weight. | 12-17-2009 |
20090297831 | Printing plate material - A printing plate material, provided with an image forming layer on a substrate, wherein the image forming layer contains following (A1) or (A2): (A1) Polymer particles which are formed by emulsion polymerization utilizing polymerizable monomer having a carboxylic group and polymerizable monomer having an amide group and have a glass transition temperature (Tg) of not lower than 70° C., and (A2) Polymer particles having a core-shell structure formed by emulsion polymerization and the shell of the polymer particles are comprised of polymer which is polymerized by use of polymerizable monomer having a carboxylic group and polymerizable monomer having an amide group and has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of not lower than 70° C. | 12-03-2009 |
20090280520 | FLUORESCENT SEMICONDUCTOR PARTICLES, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, BIOSUBSTANCE FLUORESCENT LABELING AGENT EMPLOYING THE SAME, AND BIOIMAGING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a fluorescent semiconductor particle having a core/shell structure composed of a core particle as a semiconductor particle, and a shell layer by which the core particle is covered, wherein the core particle has a different chemical composition from that of the shell layer; the core particle has an average particle diameter of 1-15 nm and a specific gravity of 1.0-3.0; and the fluorescent semiconductor particle having the core/shell structure has a specific gravity of 0.8-3.2 | 11-12-2009 |
20090279764 | SMALL-SCALE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - The present invention is to provide a small-scale diagnosis system for conducting simple and efficient examination, including: an image creating apparatus for creating photographic image data of examination object; a CPU to conduct image processing for creating defined photographic image data from the photographic image data; an input section to input the examination object information to specify the photographed examination object; a CPU to correlate the defined image data created and examination object information corresponding to the defined photographic image data; a server to store the defined photographic image data having been correlated and the examination object information; a display section capable of displaying at least any one of the photographic image data, the defined photographic image data or the examination object information; and a control device having at least the CPU to carry out image processing, the CPU to carry out correlation processing and the display section. | 11-12-2009 |
20090278051 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTING APPARATUS AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - A radiographic imaging system | 11-12-2009 |
20090263659 | SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method to produce a semiconductor nanoparticle which is excellent in monodispersibility and productivity. This method is characterized in that two or more kinds of semiconductor nanoparticles having different average particle diameters are dispersed in a solvent and mixed together, and then subjected to size classification. | 10-22-2009 |
20090252895 | Actinic ray curable composition, actinic ray curable ink and image formation method employing the ink - Disclosed is an actinic ray curable ink containing pigment, a photolytic acid generating agent and an epoxy compound represented by formula (1-1), | 10-08-2009 |
20090250633 | RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An objective is to provide a high quality radiation image conversion panel and a manufacturing method thereof in which strength and heat resistance of an undercoat resin layer, and no cracks are generated in a stimulable phosphor layer. Disclosed is a radiation image conversion panel comprising a support and provided thereon, a stimulable phosphor layer, wherein a crosslinked undercoat resin layer that is formed between the support and the stimulable phosphor layer has a chemical bonding intensity ratio of NCO group/methyl group of 0.2-2.0. | 10-08-2009 |
20090246671 | DEVELOPER AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR LIGHT SENSITIVE PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL - The invention provides a developer and a processing method for a light sensitive planographic printing plate material (also referred to simply as a planographic printing plate material) providing excellent contamination resistance during printing and high reproduction of dot and line images. The developer for a light sensitive planographic printing plate material comprises an aluminum support and provided thereon, a light sensitive layer comprised of a light sensitive resin composition, the light sensitive planographic printing plate material after exposure being developed with the developer, and is characterized in that it contains a compound represented by the following formula (1), | 10-01-2009 |
20090239767 | BIOMOLECULE DETECTION REAGENT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOMOLECULE USING REAGENT - A biomolecule detection reagent comprising semiconductor nanoparticles and magnetic nanoparticles, incorporated in a bead comprising an inorganic compound or an organic polymer, and a surface of the beads is modified with a biomolecule detection molecule. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238764 | DIAGNOSTIC THERAPEUTIC METHOD - A pharmaceutical preparation containing magnetic vesicular particles is disclosed, wherein the magnetic vesicular particles each include magnetic microparticles within a lipid membrane, an organic compound having at least two groups selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, a carbamoyl group, an amino group, a mercapto group, a sulfo group, a dithio group, a thiocarboxyl group and a dithiocarboxyl group is bonded to the magnetic microparticle, and the magnetic vesicular particles satisfy the following equation: | 09-24-2009 |
20090236563 | Nanosized Semiconductor Particle Having Core/Shell Structure and Manufacturing Method Thereof - An objective is to provide a nanosized semiconductor particle having a core/shell structure in which a ratio of shell thickness/core portion particle diameter exhibits an optimal ratio in optical properties of optical elements. The particle comprising the structure in which shell portion has a thickness of not more than 1/2 of core portion particle diameter, wherein core portion has a particle diameter of less than 20 nm, and shell portion has a thickness of at least 0.2 nm; core portion has a particle diameter of 20-100 nm, and shell portion has a thickness of at least 1/100 of a core portion particle diameter; core portion possesses at least one element of B, C, N, Al, Si, P, S, Zn, Ga, Ge, As, Se, Cd, In, Sb and Te; and shell portion has a composition exhibiting a larger band gap than that of core portion. | 09-24-2009 |
20090233378 | Method of Reaction in Flow Channel of Microchip and Analysis Device - In case of performing a reaction between reacting material and reagent by bringing the reagent in contact with the reacting material through flowing the reagent into a reaction flow channel in which the reaction material which reacts with the reagent is carried on a wall surface of the reaction flow channel of a microchip, the reaction is expedited efficiently by passing the reagent to the reacting material. The reagent | 09-17-2009 |
20090232278 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR AND RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM - A radiation image detector switchable between an imaging ready state which can detect radiation and an imaging standby state in which power consumption is less than that of the imaging ready state. The detector includes: a switching unit for giving an instruction of switching between the imaging ready state and the imaging standby state; a chargeable or replaceable battery provided as a power supply source for supplying power to a plurality of drive units; and a battery remaining power detecting section for detecting a remaining power of the battery. The radiation image detector includes a control unit for controlling running states of the plurality of drive units to switch between the imaging ready state and the imaging standby state according to the instruction from the switching unit and for controlling the battery remaining power detecting section. The control unit controls the battery remaining power detecting section to detect the remaining power of the battery when an imaging instruction for switching from the imaging ready state to the imaging standby state, is input from the switching unit. | 09-17-2009 |
20090231404 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - Clogging of an ink-jetting opening is more reliably prevented, by inkjet recording apparatus | 09-17-2009 |
20090197202 | PHOTOSENSITIVE PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL - Disclosed is a photosensitive surface printing plate material which is suitable for the exposure to a laser beam having a light emission wavelength ranging from 350 to 450 nm, is highly sensitive, and has excellent storage stability. The material has a substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on the substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer comprise a polymerization initiator (A), a polymerizable compound (B) having an ethylenic double bond, a sensitizing dye (C), and a polymeric binder (D). In the photosensitive layer, the polymerizable compound (B) comprises a product of the reaction among (a) a compound represented by the general formula (1), (b) a diisocyanate compound and (c) a (methacrylate compound having a hydroxyl group in the molecule. General formula (1): HO—(CH | 08-06-2009 |
20090196795 | MICROCHIP INSPECTION DEVICE - A microchip inspecting device with a temperature control function capable of performing accurate inspection. The inspection device comprises a microchip containing part in which microchips having a part to be detected and a part to be temperature-adjusted is contained, a detection section disposed corresponding to the part to be detected of the microchip contained in the microchip containing part, a temperature adjusting section disposed corresponding to the part to be temperature-adjusted of the microchip contained in the microchip containing part, and a control section for reducing the power of the temperature adjusting section when the part to be detected the microchip contained in the microchip containing part is detected by the detection section. | 08-06-2009 |
20090175416 | X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS - It is intended to provide an X-ray photography apparatus whereby lungs can be photographed in the desirable inherent size thereof. | 07-09-2009 |
20090169889 | NANOSIZED PHOSPHOR - The present invention is to provide a nanosized phosphor exhibiting enhanced luminance as a molecular labeling phosphor by controlling an electrostatic charge of an inorganic phosphor. The nanosized phosphor is featured in that at least 90% of total particles have a particle size of 1 to 100 nm and an electrostatic charge of the total particles is in the range of −20 μC/g to 5 μC/g. | 07-02-2009 |
20090168965 | SMALL-SCALE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A diagnostic system which provides the imaging operator with the situation of the patients staying in a small-scale facility such as a medical practitioner or a clinic without increasing the man-hour such as input of examination order information and improves the diagnosis efficiency. When a visiting patient is received and registered by and in a reception computer ( | 07-02-2009 |
20090155927 | MICROREACTOR AND METHOD OF LIQUID FEEDING MAKING USE OF THE SAME - A microreactor capable of reaction between a sample and a mixed reagent containing a mixture of multiple reagents, which microreactor avoids the interposition of air between driving solution and reagents and realizes high-precision controlling of the timing of mixing of reagents and other liquids, the mixing ratio of liquids, the pressure for liquid feeding, etc. Further, there is provided a method of liquid feeding making use of the same. Accordingly, a flow path branched at the position of an inlet from a flow path through which an opening communicating with an external pump communicates with the inlet is provided with an air evacuation flow path with its terminal open outward. Further, the flow path resistance of the air evacuation flow path for a liquid is made greater than the flow path resistance, for the liquid, of a flow channel from the reagent storage chamber to a reagent feed-out flow path. | 06-18-2009 |
20090147037 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head that jets photo-curable ink onto a recording medium; an irradiation device that irradiates light onto ink having landed on a surface of the recording medium K; an illumination measuring device that measures an illumination by light that is irradiated from the irradiation device; and a controller that controls the recording head. Herein, the controller controls the recording head to be in a state that allows the recording head to perform image recording when an illumination measured by the illumination measuring device is higher than or equal to a lower limit of illumination for curing ink. | 06-11-2009 |
20090136110 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - An image processor executes an image processing under an appropriate condition. The image possessor comprises an important area detecting section ( | 05-28-2009 |
20090135238 | Ultraviolet Ray Curable Ink-jet Ink, Ink-jet Recording Method and Ink-jet Recording Apparatus - An ultraviolet ray curable ink-jet ink comprising at least a mono-functional monomer, a bi-functional monomer, and a photo-polymerization initiator,
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20090134566 | Photosensitive Material Conveying System and Image Forming Apparatus - The photosensitive material conveying system is configured so that a feed out roller is contacted on a stack of sheets having a plurality of stacked photosensitive sheet films each of which is provided with an emulsion layer and a first protective layer provided on one side of a supporting base and a second protective layer provided on the other side with matting agent dispersed in the second protective layer, and the topmost sheet film in the stack of sheets is fed out by the rotation of the feeding out roller, wherein the matting agent has a spherical shape, a hardness softer than the first protective layer, and particle diameter in the range of 8 to 12 μm, and the contact pressure of the feeding out roller is 0.49 N/cm or less. | 05-28-2009 |
20090130680 | SOLID SUPPORT - The present invention provides a solid support for performing steps of isolation of cell or extraction and purification of nucleic acid, safely, easily, efficiently, and with high yield in the genetic test for investigating the presence of pathogenic bacterial infection. A solid support for binding with cell as an embodiment of the above-described solid support, comprises a polypeptide having capability of binding with mycolic acid-containing glycolipid which is immobilized on the surface of a carrier. In addition, a solid support for binding with nucleic acid as another embodiment of the above-described solid support, comprises a polypeptide having capability of binding with nucleic acid which is immobilized on the surface of a carrier. | 05-21-2009 |
20090121140 | HALIDE-CONTAINING STIMULABLE PHOSPHOR PRECURSOR, HALIDE-CONTAINING STIMULABLE PHOSPHOR, RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - This invention relates to a halide-containing stimulable phosphor having improved moisture resistance and luminance, and a process for producing the same. The halide-containing stimulable phosphor is characterized in that, among elements constituting the outermost surface and inside of the phosphor, there is a difference in composition ratio of a halogen element between the outermost surface and the inside of the phosphor. A radiation image conversion panel, which has been improved, for example, in moisture resistance, luminance and image quality by using the phosphor, and a process for producing the same are also provided. | 05-14-2009 |
20090117286 | Actinic Ray Curable Composition; and Actinic Ray Curable Ink, Image Forming Method and Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus Utilizing the Same - An actinic ray curable composition comprising a radical polymerizing monomer, wherein the radical polymerizing monomer contains a mono-functional monomer, a content of which is not less than 5 weight % and not more than 30 weight %, and further contains a silicone-containing compound or a fluorine-containing compound. | 05-07-2009 |
20090110832 | PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL, PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE, PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PREPARING PROCESS AND PRINTING PROCESS EMPLOYING PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE - The present invention provides an intermediate transfer member having higher transferability and higher cleaning properties and durability, an apparatus for producing an intermediate transfer member which does not require the provision of any large equipment such as vacuum equipment, and an image forming apparatus comprising the intermediate transfer member. The intermediate transfer member contains a support and, provided on the support, a first inorganic compound layer containing carbon atoms and a second inorganic compound layer as a surface layer, the second inorganic compound layer not containing any carbon atom or containing carbon atoms in a smaller amount than the carbon atoms in the first inorganic compound layer. | 04-30-2009 |
20090103796 | METHOD OF DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN RIGHT AND LEFT BREAST IMAGES AND BREAST RADIOGRAPHING SYSTEM - The control apparatus sets the destination for sending data of the designated image reading apparatus and the breast image radiographing apparatus to be the control apparatus when receiving request for radiographing start in the mammography mode from the control apparatus. The breast image radiographing apparatus reads cassette ID of loaded cassette, and sends it to the control apparatus after correlating the cassette ID with UID indicating the radiographing time. The image reading apparatus reads cassette ID of loaded cassette and sends it along with the read image data to the control apparatus. The control apparatus correlates the received image data with the UID by using the cassette ID as a key, discriminates between MLO-L image and MLO-R image, and discriminates CC-L and CC-R images based on the discrimination result and the radiographing order indicated by the UID. | 04-23-2009 |
20090097730 | ABNORMAL SHADOW CANDIDATE DISPLAY METHOD AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - In medical image processing system | 04-16-2009 |
20090087779 | PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL - The invention provides a printing plate material having high sensitivity, excellent initial printability, excellent stability under room light, i.e., good workability or storage stability under room light, and reduced contamination of a printing press. The printing plate material comprises a support having a hydrophilic surface, and provided thereon, an on-press developable image formation layer (A) and an on-press developable overcoat layer (B) in that order, wherein the on-press developable image formation layer (A) contains (a1) through (a3) as shown below, and the on-press developable overcoat layer (B) contains (b) as shown below: | 04-02-2009 |
20090078887 | RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a radiation image conversion panel having strong resistance to physical impact, and in which enhanced sharpness and adhesion are balanced, especially, enhanced adhesion of a photostimulable phosphor layer onto a support is achieved, and a preparation method of the radiation image conversion panel. The radiation image conversion panel comprising on a support a sublayer and at least one photostimulable phosphor layer in this order from the support, featured in that the photostimulable phosphor layer is formed by a gas phase method and has a thickness of not less than 50 μm, and the sublayer comprises a thermoplastic resin and the thickness of the central portion in an image area of the sublayer is greater than that of the peripheral portion of the image area. | 03-26-2009 |
20090075201 | PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL, AND CYCLIC UREIDE MOIETY-CONTAINING PHENOLIC RESIN AND ITS SYNTHETIC PROCESS - Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising an aluminum support and provided thereon, an image formation layer containing a cyclic ureide moiety-containing phenolic resin in which a phenolic resin has a cyclic ureide moiety through a linkage group, the cyclic ureide moiety being derived from a cyclic ureide and the linkage group being derived from a linkage compound having both a monohalogenated alkyl group and one selected from a vinyl group, a carbonyl group, an ester group and a sulfonic acid ester group. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073198 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - To reduce ink bleeding and growing of dot diameters for high image quality, an ink jet recording apparatus for recording a color image includes a first head group including chromatic color ink recording heads, a second head group including at least one of a transparent ink recording head and an achromatic color ink recording head, and light emitting devices for curing a photocurable ink having landed on a recording medium. The first and the second head groups are disposed along a scanning direction. The chromatic color ink recording heads of the first head group do not have the light emitting device therebetween along the scanning direction. And the light emitting device is arranged along the scanning direction between the first and second head groups and further arranged at least on a trailing side, in the scanning direction, of a trailing one of the first and second head groups. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073197 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - To reduce ink bleeding and growing of dot diameters for high image quality, an ink jet recording apparatus for recording a color image includes a first head group including chromatic color ink recording heads, a second head group including at least one of a transparent ink recording head and an achromatic color ink recording head, and light emitting devices for curing a photocurable ink having landed on a recording medium. The first and the second head groups are disposed along a scanning direction. The chromatic color ink recording heads of the first head group do not have the light emitting device therebetween along the scanning direction. And the light emitting device is arranged along the scanning direction between the first and second head groups and further arranged at least on a trailing side, in the scanning direction, of a trailing one of the first and second head groups. | 03-19-2009 |
20090066772 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - To reduce ink bleeding and growing of dot diameters for high image quality, an ink jet recording apparatus for recording a color image includes a first head group including chromatic color ink recording heads, a second head group including at least one of a transparent ink recording head and an achromatic color ink recording head, and light emitting devices for curing a photocurable ink having landed on a recording medium. The first and the second head groups are disposed along a scanning direction. The chromatic color ink recording heads of the first head group do not have the light emitting device therebetween along the scanning direction. And the light emitting device is arranged along the scanning direction between the first and second head groups and further arranged at least on a trailing side, in the scanning direction, of a trailing one of the first and second head groups. | 03-12-2009 |
20090066713 | Medical Image System - A medical image system capable of changing a display configuration to a desired one by an easy operation is provided. In a medical image system | 03-12-2009 |
20090061536 | Si/Si3N4 SYSTEM NANOSIZED PARTICLES, BIOSUBSTANCE LABELING AGENT EMPLOYING THE NANOSIZED PARTICLES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE NANOSIZED PARTICLES - An objective is to provide Si/Si | 03-05-2009 |
20090060825 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF NANOPARTICLE - A production method of nano-sized silicon crystal particles comprising the step of allowing monosilane to be oxidized in a liquid phase. | 03-05-2009 |
20090053648 | LIGHT SENSITIVE PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE MATERIAL - The present invention provides a light sensitive planographic printing plate material which is adapted to exposure employing a laser emitting light with an emission wavelength of from 350 to 450 nm, and which exhibits high sensitivity and excellent safelight property, and a light sensitive planographic printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, a light sensitive layer and a protective layer (E), the light sensitive layer containing a photopolymerization initiator (A), a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated compound (B), a dye (C) having absorption maximum in the wavelength regions of from 350 to 450 nm and a polymeric binder (D), and the light sensitive planographic printing plate material being characterized in that the protective layer contains a dye precursor (F) capable of changing to a dye absorbing light with a wavelength of from 350 to 450 nm by heating. | 02-26-2009 |
20090053522 | TRIPLE-LAYER SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLE AND TRIPLE-LAYER SEMICONDUCTOR NANOROD - A semiconductor nanoparticle and semiconductor nanorod that have optical characteristics (luminescence intensity and emission lifetime) superior to those of conventional core/shell nanosized semiconductors. There are provided a triple-layer semiconductor nanoparticle, and triple-layer semiconductor nanorod, having an average particle diameter of 2 to 50 nm and comprising a core layer, an interlayer and a shell layer, wherein the layers are composed of different crystals, and wherein the crystal constructing the shell layer exhibits a band gap greater than that of the crystal constructing the core layer, and wherein the crystal constructing the interlayer has a lattice constant assuming a value between those of the crystal constructing the core layer and the crystal constructing the shell layer. | 02-26-2009 |
20090042134 | Photosensitive composition, photosensitive planographic printing plate material, and image forming method of photosensitive planographic printing plate material - A photosensitive composition containing: (A) a polymerizable compound containing an ethylenic double bond in the molecule; (B) a photopolymerization initiator; (C) a polymer binder; and (D) a dye exhibiting a maximum absorption wavelength of 350-450 nm, wherein the dye is represented by Formula (1): | 02-12-2009 |
20090042125 | PHOTOTHERMOGRAPHIC MATERIAL - A photothermographic material comprising on one side of a support a light-sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, silver halide grains, a binder and a reducing agent and on the other side of the support a back coating layer, wherein a dry thickness of the light-sensitive layer is 9 to 16 μm; a centerline average roughness (Ra(B)) of an outermost surface of a back coating layer side is 100 to 150 nm; and the back coating layer contains a lubricant having a molecular weight of 550 to 10000. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041945 | ACTIVE RAY CURABLE COMPOSITION, POLYMERIZATION METHOD, ACTIVE RAY CURABLE INK, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An active ray curable composition comprising a compound represented by Formula (X): | 02-12-2009 |
20090039287 | RARE EARTH ACTIVATED ALKALINE EARTH METAL FLUOROHALIDE STIMULABLE PHOSPHOR AND RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL EMPLOYING THE SAME - Provided are a rare earth activated alkaline earth metal fluorohalide stimulable phosphor exhibiting high image quality of radiation images and reduction of luminance degradation, and a radiation image conversion panel employing the stimulable phosphor represented by Formula (1) Ba | 02-12-2009 |