Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A chest diagnostic support information generation system includes: a radiography section which radiographs a chest portion of a subject; an image analysis section which generates a diagnostic support information based on an image data generated by the radiography section; and a display which displays the diagnostic support information, wherein the radiography section obtains a plurality of frame images which show a motion state of the chest of the subject, and the image analysis section includes: a breathing information generation section which generates the diagnostic support information relating to breathing of the subject based on a difference value of the pixel or the block corresponded with each other between image frames temporally adjacent among the plurality of frame images; and a blood flow information generation section which generates the diagnostic support information relating to blood flow of the subject based on a generated output signal wave form.

Abstract: 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

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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 S1). The image processing apparatus calculates an evaluation value of the heart function by using the radiographs in plural time phases (Step S4). The console for diagnosis displays information on the calculated evaluation value on the display section (Step S5).

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Associated information is prepared and stored in a support information DB, the information being such that elements belonging to a plurality of element items respectively forming medical information on at least one patient are associated with each other between the items. Then, on a medical-support-information presenting screen displayed at a display unit, a selecting condition selecting one or more elements and an output target item are specified and input in response to user control. As a result, with respect to information that satisfies the selecting condition out of the associated information, the display unit visibly outputs statistical information about the output target item.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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 (30a) is passed in such a manner that the periphery of the gas/liquid interface at the front end of the reagent moves forward and backward along the wall face of the reaction channel (10). After the completion of the reaction between the reagent (30a) and the reactant, another reagent (30b), which is to be reacted with the reactant capable of reacting with the reagent that is carried on the reaction channel, is passed into the reaction channel (10) while providing a gas in the front edge side thereof.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.