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20100042084 | LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS - A laser treatment apparatus is provided with a treatment probe, an observation probe, an image processing section, a lesion disappearance degree judgment section, and a CPU. The treatment probe and the observation probe are disposed in a catheter inserted into a blood vessel. The observation probe scans an inner wall of the blood vessel to obtain a tomographic image signal therefrom. The image processing section produces a tomographic image from the tomographic image signal. The lesion disappearance degree judgment section analyzes the tomographic image and judges whether or not a lesion exists. The CPU controls radiation of a laser beam from the treatment probe based on a judgment result of the lesion disappearance degree judgment section. | 02-18-2010 |
20100054406 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a radiographic imaging system including: a radiographic imaging device including a generating section that captures a radiographic image expressed by irradiated radiation and generates image information expressing the captured radiographic image, and a first communication section that transmits, plural times and by wireless communication and even during a response wait time period, imaging start instructing information that instructs starting of imaging when preparations for capturing a radiographic image by the generating section have been completed; and a control device having a second communication section that can communicate by wireless communication with the first communication section, and a control section that controls a radiation irradiating section such that radiation is irradiated with respect to the radiographic imaging device in a case in which the second communication section receives any of the imaging start instructing information that are transmitted plural times from the first communication section. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054418 | X-RAY DETECTING ELEMENT - The present invention provides an X-ray detecting element that can obtain radiation images by X-rays of different energies by irradiation of X-rays a single time, without positional offset arising. A first scintillator is provided at an outer side of a sensor portion and a sensor portion of one surface side of a substrate. A second scintillator is provided at another surface side of the substrate. X-rays that are irradiated from the one surface side or the other surface side of the substrate are converted into light at the first and second scintillators. The sensor portion detects light that is illuminated from the first scintillator of the one surface side, and the sensor portion detects light that is illuminated from the second scintillator of the other surface side of the substrate. | 03-04-2010 |
20100243909 | RADIATION DETECTOR - The present invention provides a radiation detector with improved workability in manufacturing processes and maintenance processes. Namely, a first housing and a second housing can be opened, to allow accessing of a TFT substrate and a radiation converting layer disposed in the first housing, and to allow accessing of a circuit substrate disposed in the second housing. Accordingly, higher workability can be achieved in manufacturing processes such as connecting of switching elements of the TFT substrate and the circuit substrate, and in maintenance processes of the TFT substrate and the circuit substrate. | 09-30-2010 |
20120119097 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM - There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: an imaging panel at which sensor portions, that detect radiation or light converted from radiation, are formed at a detection region, and that captures a radiographic image expressed by radiation or light converted from radiation; a light illuminating section at which light-emitting portions, that can individually illuminate light for erasing residual images, are provided per sectional region obtained by dividing the detection region into the sectional regions; a storage section that stores imaging actual results information that expresses past actual results of imaging carried out by the imaging panel; and a control section that, in accordance with at least one of actual results of imaging and imaging conditions, controls absence/presence of illumination of, light amount of, and illumination time period of light from the respective light-emitting portions of the light illuminating section. | 05-17-2012 |
20120153169 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A radiographic imaging apparatus including: a scintillator that includes at least a columnar crystal and converts irradiated radiation into light; a light receiving element that receives light emitted from the scintillator; and a sensor substrate that comprises a light receiving element that receives light emitted from the scintillator and converts the received light into an electric signal, a cross-sectional diameter of the columnar crystal in a region located at a sensor substrate side being larger than that in a region located at a side opposite to the sensor substrate side. | 06-21-2012 |
20120153170 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: a converting layer that is flat-plate-shaped and that converts irradiated radiation into light; a light detecting substrate that is disposed at one surface side of the converting layer, and detects light converted by the converting layer; an illuminating section that illuminates light with respect to another surface side of the converting layer; and a half-mirror that is provided over an entire surface of a region, which is between the converting layer and the light illuminating section and which corresponds to a detection region at which light is detected by the light detecting substrate, the half-mirror reflecting at least a portion of light converted by the converting layer, and transmitting at least a portion of light illuminated by the light illuminating section. | 06-21-2012 |
20120273687 | RADIATION IMAGING DEVICE - An electronic cassette has a top plate, an anisotropic heat transfer plate, a detection panel, and a scintillator disposed in this order from an X-ray irradiation side. The scintillator converts X-rays transmitted through the top plate, the anisotropic heat transfer plate, and the detection panel into visible light. The detection panel performs photoelectric conversion of the visible light. The anisotropic heat transfer plate is composed of a lamination of first prepregs in which all carbon fibers are oriented in a heat flow direction. The top plate is composed of an alternate lamination of the first prepregs and second prepregs that have carbon fibers oriented in a signal line direction. Body heat of a patient is transferred to the top plate, and is transferred in the heat flow direction in the anisotropic heat transfer plate, and then is released from a housing through heat absorbing members. | 11-01-2012 |
20120318991 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING DEVICE - A radiological imaging device has a panel section which houses radiation conversion panels for converting radiation to a radiological image, and a control section which is disposed on the panel section and which controls the radiation conversion panels. The control section is thicker than the panel section, or protrudes from the panel section. | 12-20-2012 |
20150327823 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - A radiation imaging apparatus includes a hydrophilized portion provided on at least a portion of an outer surface of the radiation imaging apparatus. The hydrophilized portion contains a hydrophilic polymer and an antibacterial agent. A water contact angle of a surface of the hydrophilized portion is equal to or less than 30°. | 11-19-2015 |
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20100163739 | RADIATION DETECTING SYSTEM - In a radiation detecting system including an electric voltage imparting electrode through which a bias electric voltage is applied, a recording photoconductive layer which comprises a-Se and generates electric charges in response to receipt of projection of radiation, a carrier collecting electrode, a charge storing portion which stores electric charges generated in the recording photoconductive layer and a switching element for reading out charge signal stored in the charge storing portion, superposed one on another in this order, an organic resin dielectric layer which is not smaller than 0.01 μm and smaller than 1 μm in thickness, not lower than 10 | 07-01-2010 |
20120126124 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a resetting light source, a switching filter, a photodetector substrate, and a scintillator, which are arranged successively in this order. If the switching filter is made permeable to resetting light from the resetting light source, the switching filter applies the resetting light to the photodetector substrate. If the switching filter is made impermeable to the resetting light, the switching filter reflects at least a fluorescence, which is converted from radiation by the scintillator, toward the photodetector substrate. | 05-24-2012 |
20120153171 | RADIATION DETECTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RADIATION DETECTOR, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS INCORPORATING RADIATION DETECTOR - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a housing and a radiation detector accommodated in the housing. The radiation detector includes a scintillator for converting radiation into visible light and photodiodes for converting the visible light into electric charges. If it is assumed that a temperature-dependent rate of change in sensitivity of the scintillator with respect to the radiation is represented by A [%/K] and a temperature-dependent rate of change in sensitivity of the photodiodes with respect to visible light is represented by B [%/K], a scintillator and photodiodes are selected having temperature-dependent rates of change A and B that satisfy the following inequality (1): | 06-21-2012 |
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20090084965 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - A voltage applying electrode, to which a voltage is to be applied, a semiconductor layer, which is capable of generating electric charges when radiation is irradiated to the semiconductor layer, and an electrode for detecting an electric signal in accordance with a radiation dose are overlaid one upon another. A hole injection blocking layer is located between the voltage applying electrode and the semiconductor layer. The hole injection blocking layer contains an alloy of Sb | 04-02-2009 |
20090159821 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTING APPARATUS - Generation of dark current due to emission of back lighting to radiation image detectors is sufficiently suppressed. A radiation image detecting apparatus includes a radiation image detector and a light emitting section. A biasing electrode to which a biasing voltage is applied, a photoconductive layer for generating electric charges when irradiated with recording electromagnetic waves bearing a radiation image, a substrate side charge transport layer for transporting the electric charges which are generated in the photoconductive layer, and an active matrix substrate provided with a plurality of charge collecting electrodes for collecting the electric charges which are generated in the photoconductive layer, are laminated in this order to form the radiation image detector. The light emitting section emits light onto the radiation image detector at least during irradiation of the recording electromagnetic waves. The average composition of the substrate side charge transport layer is Sb | 06-25-2009 |
20090212199 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - In a radiation image detection apparatus having a radiation image detector that includes the following stacked in the order listed below: a bias electrode, a photoconductive layer, a substrate side charge transport layer, and an active matrix substrate, the radiation image detector does not include an area adjacent to the interface between the substrate side charge transport layer and photoconductive layer having an oxygen or chlorine element density not less than two times the average density of oxygen or chlorine element in the substrate side charge transport layer. | 08-27-2009 |
20120001201 | RADIATION IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - In a radiation image detection apparatus having a radiation image detector that includes the following stacked in the order listed below: a bias electrode, a photoconductive layer, a substrate side charge transport layer, and an active matrix substrate, the radiation image detector does not include an area adjacent to the interface between the substrate side charge transport layer and photoconductive layer having an oxygen or chlorine element density not less than two times the average density of oxygen or chlorine element in the substrate side charge transport layer. | 01-05-2012 |
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20080224055 | RADIATION DETECTING SYSTEM - In a radiation detecting system including a first electrode which is imparted with a positive bias and permeable to a recording electromagnetic wave carrying thereon image information, a recording photoconductive layer which generates electric charges in response to receipt of projection of the recording electromagnetic wave, an organic polymer layer provided between the first electrode and the recording photoconductive layer, and a second electrode which is provided on the side of the recording photoconductive layer opposite to a side where the first electrode is provided and being for recording the image information by storing electric charges generated in the recording photoconductive layer upon projection of the recording electromagnetic wave, the organic polymer layer includes a hole blocking material. | 09-18-2008 |
20080224180 | RADIATION DETECTING SYSTEM - A radiation detecting system includes at least a carrier collective electrode layer, a radiation-sensitive semiconductor layer, at least one charge transfer layer, and a voltage applying electrode formed on an insulating substrate and wherein at least one of the charge transfer layers includes chalcogenide compounds containing therein chalcogenide elements larger than the stoichiometric value by not smaller than 3% of the stoichiometric value in a composition thereof. | 09-18-2008 |
20120126129 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a photodetector substrate, a scintillator, a switching filter, and a resetting light source, which are arranged successively in this order. If the switching filter is made permeable to resetting light from the resetting light source, the switching filter allows resetting light to be applied to the photodetector substrate through the scintillator, whereas, if the switching filter is made impermeable to the resetting light, the switching filter reflects at least a fluorescence, which is converted from radiation by the scintillator, toward the photodetector substrate. | 05-24-2012 |
20130082184 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - The present invention provides a radiographic imaging device that may image radiographic images with high sharpness while suppressing a drop in sensitivity. Namely, a radiation detector, in which a scintillator that generates light due to irradiation of radiation and a TFT substrate on which plural sensor portions configured including an organic photoelectric conversion material that generates electric charges by receiving light are disposed are sequentially layered, is positioned in such a way that radiation that has passed through a subject is made incident from the TFT substrate side. | 04-04-2013 |
20150204986 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE - A monocoque-structured housing accommodates a photoelectric conversion panel, a scintillator, and a circuit board in this order from an X-ray incidence side. The scintillator contains cesium iodide and converts X-rays into visible light. The scintillator is vapor-deposited on the photoelectric conversion panel. A plurality of pixels that photoelectrically convert the visible light into charges are formed in the photoelectric conversion panel. A signal processor, which reads out the charge from each pixel and generates image data, is mounted on the circuit board. A gap layer is formed between the scintillator and the circuit board. | 07-23-2015 |
20150279196 | ELECTRONIC CASSETTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC CASSETTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC CASSETTE MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A first data taking section takes first detection results from a first wireless tag reader which detects the come and go of an electronic cassette into and out of a first service zone, and also takes second detection results from a second wireless tag reader which detects the come and go of an electronic cassette into and out of a second service zone. A first alert controller drives a first speaker to start an alert when the first alert controller determines on the basis of the first detection results that the electronic cassette has gone out the first service zone. After the start of alerting, the first alert controller stops driving the first speaker to interrupt the alert when first alert controller determines that the electronic cassette has come in either the first service zone or the second service zone. | 10-01-2015 |