X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Auxiliary data acquisition or recording – Patient or exposure data
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-18
2002-04-09
Kim, Robert H. (Department: 2882)
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Auxiliary data acquisition or recording
Patient or exposure data
C378S114000, C378S115000, C378S116000, C378S162000, C250S584000, C600S508000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06370229
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a radiation image reading system which reads a radiation image obtained by radiographing a patient for a diagnosis in a hospital, and to a radiation image reading method.
There have been known a radiation image radiographing apparatus which conducts irradiation of radiation on a specific region of a patient in a medical institution such as a hospital and accumulates and records image information on a semiconductor X-ray detecting element or on an accelerated phosphor (stimulable phosphor), and a radiation image reading apparatus for reading the aforesaid image information. In a general hospital having many patients, there are installed many radiation image radiographing apparatuses and many radiation image reading apparatuses, and patients are radiographed to obtain radiation images which are read immediately after radiographing.
When plural apparatuses are installed as stated above, radiographing of a patient for radiation images and reading of the radiation images which are to be conducted on each apparatus which once accepted the patient are sometimes canceled for various reasons such as maintenance or troubles of each apparatus, or availability of a radiologist, and radiographing and reading need to be conducted on another apparatus. In such a case, when an apparatus to conduct radiation image reading and radiographing can not be switched to another apparatus smoothly, confusion takes place easily in the hospital having a large number of patients, for example. If such confusion takes place frequently, there is a fear that a diagnosis by means of radiation images is affected adversely, which is not preferable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the invention is to provide a radiation image reading system wherein even when radiographing of a patient for radiation images and reading of the radiation images are canceled on each apparatus which accepted the patient, that apparatus can be switched to another apparatus for reading radiation images smoothly and simply, when plural radiation image reading apparatuses are installed, and to provide a radiation image reading method.
The above object can be attained by the following system and method.
A radiation image reading system, comprises:
a plurality of reading apparatus to read a radiation image and to produce image data; and
an information transmitting apparatus to transmit information regarding a patient to at least a reading apparatus of the plurality of reading apparatus; wherein when the information regarding the patient transmitted by the information transmitting apparatus is canceled, the information regarding the patient is transmitted by the information transmitting apparatus to another reading apparatus other than the reading apparatus to which the information regarding the patient was firstly transmitted.
A radiation image reading system, comprises:
a plurality of reading apparatus to read a radiation image of a patient,
at least one of the plurality of reading apparatus comprising a display to indicate information regarding the patient, wherein the display is capable of indicating information regarding a patient whose image is expected to be read by the other reading apparatus; and
the reading apparatus further comprising canceling means for canceling the information regarding the patient whose image is expected to be read by the other reading apparatus,
wherein when the canceling means of a reading apparatus cancels the information regarding the patient whose image is expected to be read by the other reading apparatus, the canceled information regarding the patient is transmitted from the other reading apparatus to the reading apparatus.
A radiation image reading system, comprises:
a plurality of reading apparatus to read a radiation image of a patient,
at least one of the plurality of reading apparatus comprising a display to indicate information regarding the patient, wherein the display is capable of indicating information regarding a patient whose image is expected to be read by the other reading apparatus; and
the reading apparatus further comprising canceling means for canceling the information regarding the patient whose image is expected to be read by itself,
wherein when the canceling means of a reading apparatus cancels the information regarding the patient whose image is expected to be read by the reading apparatus, the canceled information regarding the patient is transmitted from the reading apparatus to the other reading apparatus.
A radiation image reading system, comprises:
inputting means for inputting information regarding a patient;
a display to indicate the information regarding the patient inputted by the inputting means, the display capable of indicating information regarding a patient inputted to other reading apparatus;
canceling means for canceling the information regarding the patient inputted to the other reading apparatus; and
receiving means for receiving the information regarding the patient canceled by the canceling means from the other reading apparatus.
A radiation image reading system, comprises:
inputting means for inputting information regarding a patient;
a display to indicate the information regarding the patient inputted by the inputting means, the display capable of indicating information regarding a patient inputted to other reading apparatus; and
a controller to control so as to transmit the information regarding the patient to other reading apparatus when the information regarding the patient inputted by the inputting means is canceled by the other reading apparatus.
A method of reading a radiation image, comprises steps of:
inputting receiving information to reception inputting means provided at a position to receive a patient;
transmitting at least a radiation image reading apparatus of a plurality of radiation image reading apparatus;
canceling the information regarding the patient transmitted to the radiation image reading apparatus of the plurality of radiation image reading apparatus; and
transmitting the canceled information regarding the patient to another radiation image reading apparatus other than the radiation image reading apparatus to which the information regarding the patient was firstly transmitted.
Further, the above object may be attained by the following preferable embodiments.
(1) A radiation image reading system of the invention is characterized in that the radiation image reading system is equipped with an acceptance inputting means installed at the position to accept a patient and with plural radiation image reading apparatuses which is connected with the acceptance inputting means and reads a radiation image of the radiographed region of a patient, and registration information of a patient inputted from the acceptance inputting means is transmitted respectively to each radiation image reading apparatus, and then, when the transmitted registration information is canceled, information of the cancellation is transmitted to the radiation image reading apparatus which has received the registration information, and the canceled registration information is transmitted again to another radiation image reading apparatus.
In the invention, when reading of radiation images is canceled on a certain radiation image reading apparatus, information of the cancellation is transmitted to the image reading apparatus, and the canceled registration information is transmitted again to another radiation image reading apparatus. Therefore, it is possible to switch the apparatus for reading radiation images to another apparatus simply, and thereby to continue the reading of radiation images smoothly. Further, if the registration information is eliminated from the radiation image reading apparatus, it is possible to reduce confusion that plural reading apparatuses conduct reading based on the same registration information.
(2) In the radiation image reading system of (1), it is possible to arrange so that the cancellation information mentioned above and the canceled registration information stated above may be
Nakazawa Masayuki
Tsuchino Hisanori
Barber Therese
Frishauf, Holtz Goodman, Langer & Chick, P.C.
Kim Robert H.
Konica Corporation
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