Abstract: The identification acquirement instructing unit 171 transmits an identification acquiring command to the storage apparatus (the IC tag). The identification receiving unit 181 receives the identification information of the storage apparatus. The protocol deciding unit 130, based on the identification information of the storage apparatus, decides the group of the extension commands (the protocols) that the storage apparatus can interprets. and the extension command transforming unit 140 transforms the common command acquired by the common command acquiring unit 161 to an extension command. the command transmitting unit 172 transmits it to the storage apparatus.

Abstract: A radiological imaging apparatus that includes a radiation source, a radiation detection section that detects radiation that passes through a subject, a signal detection section that detects signals from a plurality of signal generating sections disposed on the radiation detection section, a signal comparison section that compares the signals detected by the signal detection section, a positional relationship judgment section that makes a judgment as to whether a positional relationship between the radiation detection section and the radiation source is a predetermined positional relationship, a position control section that controls a position of at least one of the radiation source and the radiation detection section to maintain the positional relationship, a position control holding section that holds and fixes the radiation source and the radiation detection section, and a notification section that provides notification in a case where the positional relationship is not the predetermined positional relati

Abstract: To provide an oil type discrimination method and an oil type discriminator capable of accurately discriminating a type of oil even when light-shielding components exist in the oil and of preventing in advance erroneous discrimination of a mixture of oil. There are provided step S1 in which the transmission spectrum of near infrared light is measured, step S2 in which the transmission spectrum is converted into an absorbance spectrum, a first discrimination step S3 in which between gasoline type and non-gasoline type is discriminated by comparing the difference in absorbance between two wavelengths existing in the vicinities of respective attribute wavelengths of predetermined chemical bonds with 0.

Abstract: To provide an oil type discrimination method and an oil type discriminator capable of accurately discriminating a type of oil even when light-shielding components exist in the oil and of preventing in advance erroneous discrimination of a mixture of oil. There are provided step S1 in which the transmission spectrum of near infrared light is measured, step S2 in which the transmission spectrum is converted into an absorbance spectrum, a first discrimination step S3 in which between gasoline type and non-gasoline type is discriminated by comparing the difference in absorbance between two wavelengths existing in the vicinities of respective attribute wavelengths of predetermined chemical bonds with 0.

Abstract: A growing method of a group III nitride semiconductor crystal includes the steps of preparing an underlying substrate, and growing a first group III nitride semiconductor crystal doped with silicon by using silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) gas as doping gas, on the underlying substrate by vapor phase growth. The growth rate of the first group III nitride semiconductor crystal is at least 200 ?m/h and not more than 2000 ?m/h.

Abstract: A group III nitride semiconductor crystal substrate has a diameter of at least 25 mm and not more than 160 mm. The resistivity of the group III nitride semiconductor crystal substrate is at least 1×10?4 ?·m and not more than 0.1 ?·cm. The resistivity distribution in the diameter direction of the group III nitride semiconductor crystal is at least ?30% and not more than 30%. The resistivity distribution in the thickness direction of the group III nitride semiconductor crystal is at least ?16% and not more than 16%.

Abstract: A growing method of a group III nitride semiconductor crystal includes the steps of preparing an underlying substrate, and growing a group III nitride semiconductor crystal doped with silicon by using silicon tetrafluoride gas as doping gas, on the underlying substrate by vapor phase growth.

Abstract: The image display device includes a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal panel and a backlight and a backlight controller for allowing the backlight of the liquid crystal display device to be bright when environment light is bright and allowing the backlight to be dark when the environment light is dark such that light leak (minimum luminance) which is defined by an extinction ratio of liquid crystal will not grow more than a specified degree. The image display device enables displayed images to be really discernible regardless of brightness of environment light (surrounding light).

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel composed of a substrate and a layer of stimulable phosphor is prepared in an evaporation chamber kept at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 Pa by the steps of heating a source of the stimulable phosphor in the chamber so that the source is evaporated to give a gaseous product and depositing the gaseous product on the substrate which is arranged above the source to form the layer of stimulable phosphor on the substrate, in which the evaporation chamber has a diffusion preventing wall member surrounding a space between the source and the substrate, a top of which is positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the substrate and a bottom of which is positioned in the vicinity of the source; and the diffusion preventing wall member is maintained at a temperature lower than a temperature of the source and higher than a temperature of the substrate.

Abstract: A radiological imaging apparatus is provided that includes a radiation source, a radiation detection section that detects radiation that passes through a subject, a signal detection section that detects signals from a plurality of signal generating sections disposed on the radiation detection section in a manner such that each signal generating section is in a different location, a signal comparison section that compares the signals detected by the signal detection section, a positional relationship judgment section that makes a judgment as to whether a positional relationship between the radiation detection section and the radiation source is a predetermined positional relationship based on a comparison result, a position control section that controls a position of at least one of the radiation source and the radiation detection section to maintain the positional relationship as the predetermined positional relationship based on a judgment result, a position control holding section that holds the radiation s

Abstract: The image display apparatus includes a flat-shaped transmission display device for displaying an image, a backlight corresponding to the display device and a control unit for controlling the backlight in such a way that a part of the backlight corresponding to a non-image area is turned off based on information concerning the image to be displayed. The apparatus is capable of cutting unnecessary light so as to be suitably used to the image diagnosis in a medical field and improving the visibility of the displayed image in the region of interest.

Abstract: An image reading device includes at least a disinfection unit that administers a disinfection treatment to either an imaging medium such as a radiation image conversion panel or a protective member that protects at least an imaging surface of the imaging medium. The system of disinfection of the radiation image conversion panel is a disinfection treatment by the disinfection unit that is preferably at least one of heat treatment, ultraviolet ray irradiation treatment, chemical coating treatment and gas treatment.

Abstract: A stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image of an object has been stored, is scanned with stimulating rays, which cause the stimulable phosphor sheet to emit light in proportion to the amount of energy stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet during exposure of the stimulable phosphor sheet to radiation. The light, which is emitted by the stimulable phosphor sheet when the stimulable phosphor sheet is scanned with the stimulating rays, is detected, and an image signal representing the radiation image of the object is acquired. The scanning of the stimulable phosphor sheet with the stimulating rays is performed from an object image-carrying edge area, in which a radiation image pattern representing the object has been stored, the object image-carrying edge area being one of edge areas of the stimulable phosphor sheet.

Abstract: Images are obtained with a reading device, such that an efficient pixel existence range of efficient pixels capable of being read out within a read-out sensitivity range of the reading device varies for different images, and such that the efficient pixel existence range in each image contains an overlapping area, which overlaps with the efficient pixel existence range in one of the other images. Correction processing is performed on the images, which have the common overlapping area, for correcting pixel values of pixels in at least either one of the images, such that the pixel values of the pixels in the overlapping area of one of the images become identical with the pixel values of the pixels in the overlapping area of the other image. A single image is composed from the images having been obtained from the correction processing.

Abstract: A cleaning process of exhaust gas which includes the steps of bringing the exhaust gas containing at least one of nitrogen oxides or organic solvent into contact with a cleaning agent including metal as a reductive cleaning agent component and metal oxide as an oxidative cleaning agent component or including lower valent metal oxide as a reductive cleaning agent component and higher valent metal oxide as an oxidative cleaning agent component while heating them. A cleaning process of exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides and/or organic solvent with high and varying concentration discharged from a manufacturing process of semiconductor capable of easily cleaning at relatively low temperature and with high decomposition factor without using large-scale cleaning apparatus or a complicated structural cleaning apparatus is provided.

Abstract: Quality degradation of a radiograph obtained from a stimulable phosphor sheet used repeatedly for radiography can be suppressed by an image data correction apparatus. Light emission characteristic storage means stores light emission change characteristic data and section storage means stores a position and a range of each of areas in the sheet obtained by dividing the sheet. Cumulative radiation dose acquisition means obtains an accumulated radiation dose for each of the areas, and light emission change rate acquisition means finds a light emission change rate representing a change in an amount of emitted light in accordance with the accumulated radiation dose for each of the areas, by using the light emission change characteristic data. Correction means corrects a value of image data obtained by reading each of the areas, for the change in the amount of the light with reference to the light emission change rate.

Abstract: A phantom, adapted to be radiation-imaged to obtain a radiation image for evaluation in inspection of a radiation imaging system, is capable of performing both the quantitative evaluation and the visual evaluation of the radiation image easily with a low cost and increasing accuracy of the constancy evaluation of the radiation imaging system. The phantom includes a base plate; a first member disposed on the base plate and having a first image quality evaluating pattern formed thereon to be used for visual evaluation as to a predetermined image quality evaluation item; and a second member disposed on the base plate and having a second image quality evaluating pattern formed thereon to be used for quantitative evaluation as to the predetermined image quality evaluation item.

Abstract: A charge read-out method and a solid-state imaging device capable of shortening a read-out time of charges stored in a plurality of light receiving units arranged linearly are provided. The charge read-out method includes the steps of moving the charges, which are generated and stored in the plurality of light receiving units linearly arranged by receiving light, to charge transfer paths disposed along a row of the light receiving units on both sides thereof, transferring the charges along the charge transfer paths to an output unit, and calculating a sum of converted values based on amounts of the charges transferred from the charge transfer paths for outputting.

Abstract: One surface of a stimulable phosphor sheet supported at a position for image recording is exposed to radiation, and a radiation image is stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet. Image readout is performed from the side of the other surface of the stimulable phosphor sheet supported at the position for image recording. Energy remaining on the stimulable phosphor sheet is then released by irradiating erasing light to an entire area of the stimulable phosphor sheet with a sheet-shaped erasing light source, which has uniform transmissivity to radiation and is located close to the one surface of the stimulable phosphor sheet supported at the position for image recording.

Abstract: A quality control system for an irradiation apparatus includes a radiation image reading system. The radiation image reading system reads out a radiation image from a stimulable phosphor panel which is disposed in a predetermined position to receive irradiation of position check radiation from an irradiation system and irradiation of uniform radiation from the irradiation system to an area larger than the area exposed to the position check radiation and to receive irradiation of position check light in a visible region from a position check light irradiation system after receiving the irradiation of the uniform radiation and to form a radiation image. A relative position obtaining system obtains the relation between the irradiating position of the position check radiation and the irradiating position of the position check light on the basis of the radiation image read by the radiation image reading system.