Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus including: a sensor substrate in which pixels are formed in a first surface of a base material; a conversion layer provided on the first surface; a signal processing substrate provided on one side the sensor substrate and includes at least a part of a signal processing unit; a driving substrate provided on the one side or the other side of the sensor substrate and includes at least a part of a drive unit; a first cable of which one end is connected to the sensor substrate and the other end is electrically connected to the signal processing substrate; and a second cable of which one end is connected to the sensor substrate, and passes through the first surface side or a second surface side of the base material and the other end is connected to the driving substrate.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate, plural pixels provided on the substrate and each including a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillator stacked on the substrate, and a bending suppression member configured to suppress bending of the substrate. The bending suppression member has a rigidity that satisfies R?X2/2ZL wherein X is a pixel size, ZL is a critical deformation amount of the pixel through bending of the substrate, and R is a radius of curvature of bending occurring in the substrate due to the weight of the scintillator.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus includes a sensor substrate including a flexible base material and plural pixels that accumulate charges generated in accordance with radiation, a flexible first cable including one ends electrically connected to a connection region disposed at a predetermined side of the sensor substrate, a first circuit substrate electrically connected to the other end of the first cable and in which a first component used for processing a digital signal in a circuit unit driven in a case of reading out the charges in the plural pixels is mounted, a flexible second cable including one end electrically connected to a connection region disposed at a side different from the predetermined side, and a second circuit substrate electrically connected to the other end of the second cable and in which a second component used for processing an analog signal in the circuit unit is mounted.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus including a sensor substrate including a flexible base material and a plurality of pixels accumulating electric charges generated in accordance with radiation, a flexible first cable of which one end is electrically connected to the sensor substrate, and a flexible first circuit substrate that is electrically connected to the other end of the first cable and in which a first circuit unit driven in a case of reading out the electric charges accumulated in the plurality of pixels is mounted is provided.

Abstract: A control unit of an electronic cassette switches the power supply state of a plurality of blocks BL which share a signal processing of a signal processing circuit between an operating state and a non-operating state. The control unit switches the block BL from the non-operating state to the operating state before a predetermined time TW necessary for stable operation of the block BL from a timing when the reading of charge starts in the block BL.

Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus including: a sensor substrate in which pixels are formed in a first surface of a base material; a conversion layer provided on the first surface; a signal processing substrate provided on one side the sensor substrate and includes at least a part of a signal processing unit; a driving substrate provided on the one side or the other side of the sensor substrate and includes at least a part of a drive unit; a first cable of which one end is connected to the sensor substrate and the other end is electrically connected to the signal processing substrate; and a second cable of which one end is connected to the sensor substrate, and passes through the first surface side or a second surface side of the base material and the other end is connected to the driving substrate.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate, plural pixels provided on the substrate and each including a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillator stacked on the substrate and including plural columnar crystals, and a bending suppression member configured to suppress bending of the substrate. The bending suppression member has a rigidity that satisfies R?L?r/tan ?+4r·{(L?r/tan ?)2?(d/2)2}1/2/d, wherein L is an average height of the columnar crystals, r is an average radius of the columnar crystals, d is an average interval between the columnar crystals, ? is an average tip angle of the columnar crystals, and R is a radius of curvature of bending occurring in the substrate due to the weight of the scintillator.

Abstract: In a case where power P_C supplied to CA during the image reading operation is normal power PN_C, in an AED operation of detecting irradiation start of X-rays, a control unit of an electronic cassette causes at least one of non-detection CAs other than a detection CA that is the charge amplifier connected to a detection channel of a detection pixel for irradiation start detection, among the plurality of CAs connected to a MUX to be in a power saving state in which the supply power P_C is lower than the normal power PN_C during the image reading operation.

Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a sensor substrate including a flexible base material, and an active area which is provided on a first surface of the base material and in which a plurality of pixels, which accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation, are formed; a conversion layer that is provided on the first surface side in the sensor substrate to convert radiation into the light; and a grid that is disposed on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the base material and has a removal portion that has a mesh-like radiation absorbing member provided between a plurality of partitions in units of a predetermined number of pixels to remove scattered radiation according to the radiation.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a substrate having flexibility, a plurality of pixels which are provided on a surface of the substrate and each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element, and a scintillator that is stacked on the substrate and has a plurality of corners. An outer edge of each of the corners of the scintillator is disposed closer to the inside of the substrate than an extension line of each of sides sharing the corner.

Abstract: In an AED operation of detecting irradiation start of X-rays, a control unit of an electronic cassette selectively outputs the analog voltage signal from a part of the charge amplifiers including a detection CA connected to the detection channel of a detection pixel for irradiation start detection among the plurality of CAs connected to the MUX, to the ADC, causes the ADC to perform only the AD conversion process for the analog voltage signal selectively output from the multiplexer, and reduces the number of pulses NPU_A per unit time in a clock signal defining an operation timing of the ADC compared to that in the image reading operation.

Abstract: The radiography apparatus includes: a plurality of imaging pixels that are provided on a resin substrate having flexibility, are used to capture a radiographic image; a detection unit; an accumulation controller that performs control such that the charge generated in each of the imaging pixels is accumulated in the imaging pixel in a case in which an operation mode is an accumulation mode; and a mode change controller that performs control such that the operation mode of the accumulation controller is changed to the accumulation mode in a case in which a rate of change in a level of an electric signal based on the charge generated in the detection unit per hour or an amount of change in the level of the electric signal per hour is greater than a first threshold value and the level of the electric signal is greater than a second threshold value.

Abstract: A control unit of an electronic cassette has a function of switching a power supply state to an ADC between an operating state corresponding to a first state in which first power is supplied and a non-operating state corresponding to a second state in which second power that is lower than the first power per unit time is supplied. The control unit reduces the number of ADCs in the operating state per unit time T in an AED operation for detecting the start of the emission of X-rays to be less than that in an image reading operation for outputting an X-ray image provided for diagnosis.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus includes a sensor substrate including a flexible base material and plural pixels that accumulate charges generated in accordance with radiation, a flexible first cable including one ends electrically connected to a connection region disposed at a predetermined side of the sensor substrate, a first circuit substrate electrically connected to the other end of the first cable and in which a first component used for processing a digital signal in a circuit unit driven in a case of reading out the charges in the plural pixels is mounted, a flexible second cable including one end electrically connected to a connection region disposed at a side different from the predetermined side, and a second circuit substrate electrically connected to the other end of the second cable and in which a second component used for processing an analog signal in the circuit unit is mounted.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus includes a sensor substrate including a flexible base material and a plurality of pixels accumulating electric charges generated in accordance with radiation, a flexible first cable of which one end is electrically connected to a connection region disposed on a predetermined side of the sensor substrate, and a first circuit substrate that is electrically connected to the other end of the first cable and in which a first component of a circuit unit driven in a case of reading out electric charges accumulated in the plurality of pixels is mounted in a state where a side having a predetermined length or greater or the longest side is aligned in an intersection direction intersecting with the predetermined side of the sensor substrate to which the first cable is connected.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus including a sensor substrate including a flexible base material and a plurality of pixels accumulating electric charges generated in accordance with radiation, a flexible first cable of which one end is electrically connected to the sensor substrate, and a flexible first circuit substrate that is electrically connected to the other end of the first cable and in which a first circuit unit driven in a case of reading out the electric charges accumulated in the plurality of pixels is mounted is provided.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a substrate having a light-transmitting property, a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate, a scintillator laminated on a side of a first surface of the substrate, and a light detector laminated on a side of a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface and including a photoelectric conversion film. An absorption peak wavelength, which is a wavelength having a highest absorbance, in a wavelength range of light absorbed by the photoelectric conversion film exists within an emission wavelength range which is a wavelength range of light emitted from the scintillator and is out of an absorption wavelength range which is a wavelength range of light absorbed by the substrate.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate, plural pixels provided on the substrate and each including a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillator stacked on the substrate, and a bending suppression member configured to suppress bending of the substrate. The bending suppression member has a rigidity that satisfies R?X2/2ZL wherein X is a pixel size, ZL is a critical deformation amount of the pixel through bending of the substrate, and R is a radius of curvature of bending occurring in the substrate due to the weight of the scintillator.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate, plural pixels provided on the substrate and each including a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillator stacked on the substrate and including plural columnar crystals, and a bending suppression member configured to suppress bending of the substrate. The bending suppression member has a rigidity that satisfies R?L?r/tan ?+4r·{(L?r/tan ?)2?(d/2)2}1/2/d, wherein L is an average height of the columnar crystals, r is an average radius of the columnar crystals, d is an average interval between the columnar crystals, ? is an average tip angle of the columnar crystals, and R is a radius of curvature of bending occurring in the substrate due to the weight of the scintillator.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes a substrate having flexibility, a plurality of pixels which are provided on a surface of the substrate and each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element, and a scintillator that is stacked on the substrate and has a plurality of corners. An outer edge of each of the corners of the scintillator is disposed closer to the inside of the substrate than an extension line of each of sides sharing the corner.