Abstract: A consumable member includes a core portion formed of the material having a first purity; and a protection portion provided at a portion worn out by plasma in the plasma processing apparatus around the core portion, and formed of the material having a second purity higher than the first purity. The material may be either quartz or ceramic.

Abstract: Based on an examination report of an endoscopic examination designated, an attached image extraction unit reads image identification information, which identifies an examination image attached to the examination report. Based on the image identification information, the attached image extraction unit extracts the examination image (that is, an attached image) attached to the examination report, from examination images corresponding to the designated endoscopic examination. The examination images are read from an image folder of an image database (DB). A screen display controller performs control to display the extracted attached image on a display screen.

Abstract: In an endoscope system, an insertion amount of an insertion unit is detected based on camera images captured by two cameras provided to a mouthpiece. Then, past images of a predetermined range corresponding to the detected insertion amount are acquired from a past image storage unit. A current image is compared with each of the acquired past images to calculate similarity between the current image and each of the past images. A body part captured in the past image having the highest similarity with the current image is determined to be the body part captured in the current image.

Abstract: Based on an examination report of an endoscopic examination designated, an attached image extraction unit reads image identification information, which identifies an examination image attached to the examination report. Based on the image identification information, the attached image extraction unit extracts the examination image (that is, an attached image) attached to the examination report, from examination images corresponding to the designated endoscopic examination. The examination images are read from an image folder of an image database (DB). A screen display controller performs control to display the extracted attached image on a display screen.

Abstract: In an endoscope system, an insertion amount of an insertion unit is detected based on camera images captured by two cameras provided to a mouthpiece. Then, past images of a predetermined range corresponding to the detected insertion amount are acquired from a past image storage unit. A current image is compared with each of the acquired past images to calculate similarity between the current image and each of the past images. A body part captured in the past image having the highest similarity with the current image is determined to be the body part captured in the current image.

Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus which acquires inspection image data by shooting an inspection area and is communicatively connected to an image server that stores the acquired inspection image data and a client terminal in which creation of an inspection report is performed, through a network, in which the medical image diagnosis apparatus includes a storage unit which temporarily stores specific information for specifying an inspection and the inspection image data acquired through the inspection in association with each other, and transmits the inspection image data to the client terminal when the inspection image data is stored in the storage unit in response to a transmission request for the inspection image data of the inspection specified by the specific information being received from the client terminal.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reference image signal outputting unit that outputs a reference image signal in which color information of a plurality of colors is included in a chart image in a display plane or a time axis, a color display information detection unit that detects color display information of an image displayed on a displaying unit based on the reference image signal, a profile generation unit that generates a display characteristic profile of the displaying unit using the detected color display information and the color information of the chart image, a display characteristic correcting unit that generates a color correction image signal obtained by correcting an image signal to be output which is input from a modality based on the display characteristic profile, and a standardization processing unit that converts the generated color correction image signal to a standardization image signal.

Abstract: A medical image recording apparatus includes: a storage unit that records, at a first compression rate, moving image data acquired by a modality apparatus; a control section that determines degrees of importance of individual frame images constituting the moving image data; and a compression processing section that, if a situation of the moving image data recorded in the storage unit satisfies a prescribed condition, (i) compresses the moving image data at a second compression rate that is smaller than the first compression rate and (ii) compresses each frame image of the moving image data at a compression rate that is smaller than the first compression rate and larger than the second compression rate and that decreases as the degree of importance decreases.

Abstract: There is provided server device processing medical image information. A storage unit stores first moving image data of a medical image and second moving image data generated by reducing a data amount of the first moving image data. A server side transmission unit transmits the second moving image data to a client device according to a request from the client device. A server side reception unit receives edition processing information transmitted from the client device and indicates the contents of edition processing with respect to the second moving image data. An edition processing unit edits the first moving image data based on the edition processing information.

Abstract: In a lens driving device including a movable portion including a lens barrel having a plurality of lenses and a driving coil, a fixed portion including a magnetic field generating portion including a permanent magnet opposite to the driving coil, and an elastic member mounted to the movable portion and the fixed portion and supporting the movable portion in a direction of an optical axis shiftably so as to position the movable portion in a radial direction, the plurality of lenses are connected with the plurality of lenses fixed to each other. The lens holder holds only an uppermost one among the plurality of lenses and remaining ones in the plurality of lenses except for the uppermost one are put into an exposed state. The driving coil is disposed close to outer edges of the exposed lenses.

Abstract: In a lens driving device including a lens barrel having an outer wall in which a male screw thread is cut, a tubular lens holder having an inner wall in which a female screw thread is cut, a driving coil fixed to the lens holder so as to position around the lens holder, a fixed portion including a magnetic field generating portion including a permanent magnet opposite to the driving coil, and an elastic member mounted to the lens holder and the fixed portion and supporting the lens holder in a direction of an optical axis shiftably so as to position the lens holder in a radial direction, the lens barrel has a lower end portion which makes contact with a base of the fixed portion in a state where the driving coil is not energized.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly containing a plural number of lens elements for an optical system to be incorporated into a tip end portion of an endoscopic insertion instrument. Of a plural number of lenses which constitute an optical system, a metal film layer is formed on confronting outer peripheral surface portions of at least two adjacently located lenses, outside respective effective lens areas, and the two adjacently located lenses are assembled and fixedly bonded together by applying solder to the outer peripheral surface portions with a metal film layer.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly containing a plural number of lens elements for an optical system to be incorporated into a tip end portion of an endoscopic insertion instrument. Of a plural number of lenses which constitute an optical system, a metal film layer is formed on confronting outer peripheral surface portions of at least two adjacently located lenses, outside respective effective lens areas, and the two adjacently located lenses are assembled and fixedly bonded together by applying solder to the outer peripheral surface portions with a metal film layer.