Abstract: An image processing apparatus that generates a material characteristic image with use of a plurality of radiation images that have been captured with different radiation energies, comprises a combining unit that combines radiation images based on two or more radiation images that are included among the plurality of radiation images, and combines radiation spectrums based on two or more radiation spectrums of the two or more radiation images, and a generating unit that generates a material characteristic image with use of two pairs of a radiation image and a radiation spectrum obtained from the plurality of radiation images. The generating unit uses, for at least one of the two pairs, a pair of the radiation image and the radiation spectrum combined by the combining unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains at least three radiation images obtained based on radiation emitted onto an object, and corresponding to at least three types of energy, and separates a predetermined substance having a known attenuation coefficient in the object and a remaining substance other than the predetermined substance in the object, based on the at least three radiation images and calculating an effective atomic number of the remaining substance.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate a material characteristic image with respect to a plurality of materials included in a radiation image that has been captured using different radiation energies; and a reconstructing unit configured to set different radiation energies for the respective plurality of materials, and to generate a reconstructed image based on monochromatic radiation images of the respective materials, the monochromatic radiation images being based on the different radiation energies.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises an image generating unit configured to generate a material characteristic image by using a plurality of radiation images of different radiation energy levels; an evaluation information calculation unit configured to calculate evaluation information which indicates a correlation between a plurality of material characteristic images; and a scattered ray amount estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the evaluation information, an amount of scattered rays included in the plurality of radiation images.

Abstract: An imaging control apparatus obtains a plurality of images at different radiation energies by irradiating, with radiation having different radiation energies, a subject in which at least one of a contrast agent, a guide wire, and a stent is inserted, generates an energy subtraction image by performing energy subtraction processing using the plurality of images, and generates a difference image between a mask image that is based on a plurality of energy subtraction images generated in a past and a live image that is based on a current energy subtraction image.

Abstract: An imaging control apparatus obtains a plurality of images at different radiation energies, the images having been obtained as a result of irradiating a subject with radiation whose energy changes during one shot, and detecting, a plurality of times, the radiation that has passed through the subject during the one shot; generates an energy subtraction image by performing energy subtraction processing using a plurality of images; and generates a difference image using a plurality of generated energy subtraction images.

Abstract: An electron beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber having an electron beam generator inside, a vacuum nozzle, and a window foil on a tip of the vacuum nozzle. The electron beam irradiation device further includes an outer pipe surrounding the vacuum nozzle, a cooling-gas supply unit that supplies cooling gas into a coolant passage formed between the vacuum nozzle and the outer pipe, and a heat-conducting transmission foil fitted to the window foil and contacting the tip of the vacuum nozzle. The heat-conducting transmission foil has a value of at least 63×10?3, which is determined by dividing a thermal conductivity [W/(m·K)] by a density [kg/m3], and a tip part of the vacuum nozzle is made of a material having at least a thermal conductivity of copper.

Abstract: To provide a technique of obtaining information for discriminating two substances included in a radiation image of a subject without performing imaging by changing radiation energy, a radiation imaging system includes a detector including a plurality of pixels which obtain pixel values corresponding to incident radiation transmitted through a subject, and an information processing unit configured to perform a process of estimating information on thicknesses and densities of substances included in the subject by performing a calculation using pixel values of an arbitrary one of the plurality of pixels and an average value of energy of radiation quanta of the arbitrary pixel calculated in accordance with the pixel values of the arbitrary pixel.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an obtainment unit configured to obtain a radiation image of a subject; a generation unit configured to generate, based on a plurality of radiation images obtained by radiation of mutually different spectra, a material characteristic image in which a region for each material can be extracted from the interior of the subject; and an image processing unit configured to perform processing of enhancing or attenuating, based on a position of a specific region in the material characteristic image, the specific region in the radiation image.

Abstract: A nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber, an electron beam generator disposed in the vacuum chamber, and a vacuum nozzle that is connected to the vacuum chamber so as to guide an electron beam from the electron beam generator and emit the electron beam to the outside. The nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a high-vacuum pump capable of sucking gas from the vicinity of the connecting part of the vacuum nozzle in the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that processes information based on a radiation image capturing a subject, comprises: an average value obtainment unit configured to obtain an average value of pixel values of the radiation image; a variance value obtainment unit configured to obtain a variance value of the pixel values of the radiation image; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to calculate, based on the average value and the variance value, one of an effective atomic number and a surface density forming the subject.

Abstract: An internal surface electron beam-irradiating device sterilizes the internal surface of a vial by irradiation with an electron beam. The internal surface electron beam-irradiating device includes an electron beam generator that generates the electron beam, a vacuum chamber containing the electron beam generator, an output window that emits the electron beam to the outside of the vacuum chamber, and an extension nozzle that guides an electron cloud formed by extending the electron beam emitted from the output window. The extension nozzle includes a leaking section that leaks the electron cloud. The leaking section includes empty portions that discharge part of the electron cloud to the outside, and a component portion that guides the electron cloud into the leaking section.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a light emitting device which can display a superior image in which luminescent color from each light emitting layer is beautifully displayed and power consumption is lowered in a light emitting element in which light emitting layers are stacked. One feature of the invention is that, in a light emitting element which comprises light emitting layers stacked between electrodes, each distance between each light emitting layer and an electrode is odd multiples of quarter wavelength with a range of plus or minus 10% thereof by controlling a thickness of a layer provided therebetween to enhance luminous output efficiency. Another feature of the invention is that a drive voltage is lowered using a high conductive material for the layer compared with a conventional element.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires a radiation image captured by irradiating an object with a radiation from a radiation source, estimates a scattered radiation image included in the acquired radiation image, and outputs a corrected image obtained by reducing the scattered radiation image from the acquired radiation image. The image processing apparatus estimates the scattered radiation image by applying a scattered radiation model for obtaining a scattered radiation component to the acquired radiation image based on a specific frequency component of an output of a first function and a specific frequency component of an output of a second function different from the first function.

Abstract: Even in a case where radiation imaging is performed using a grid, data lack which occurs at a time of radiation detection is appropriately corrected. An FPD controller 105 obtains data of an image captured by detecting radial rays. A data lack ratio calculation unit 111 calculates data lack ratios in the image data. A fitting unit 112 performs fitting so that a model function representing the data lack fits the data lack ratios. A correction processing unit 113 corrects the image data in accordance with the model function obtained by the fitting.

Abstract: A nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber, an electron beam generator disposed in the vacuum chamber, and a vacuum nozzle that is connected to the vacuum chamber so as to guide an electron beam from the electron beam generator and emit the electron beam to the outside. The nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a high-vacuum pump capable of sucking gas from the vicinity of the connecting part of the vacuum nozzle in the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate insulating film and a gate electrode. A second oxide semiconductor layer is between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the source electrode. A third oxide semiconductor layer is between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the drain electrode. The content ratio of oxygen/Indium in each of the second semiconductor layer and the third oxide semiconductor layer is equal to or larger than that of the first semiconductor layer. A thickness of each of the second semiconductor layer and the third oxide semiconductor layer is bigger than that of the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: An internal surface electron beam-irradiating device sterilizes the internal surface of a vial by irradiation with an electron beam. The internal surface electron beam-irradiating device includes an electron beam generator that generates the electron beam, a vacuum chamber containing the electron beam generator, an output window that emits the electron beam to the outside of the vacuum chamber, and an extension nozzle that guides an electron cloud formed by extending the electron beam emitted from the output window. The extension nozzle includes a leaking section that leaks the electron cloud. The leaking section includes empty portions that discharge part of the electron cloud to the outside, and a component portion that guides the electron cloud into the leaking section.

Abstract: To provide a technique of obtaining information for discriminating two substances included in a radiation image of a subject without performing imaging by changing radiation energy, a radiation imaging system includes a detector including a plurality of pixels which obtain pixel values corresponding to incident radiation transmitted through a subject, and an information processing unit configured to perform a process of estimating information on thicknesses and densities of substances included in the subject by performing a calculation using pixel values of an arbitrary one of the plurality of pixels and an average value of energy of radiation quanta of the arbitrary pixel calculated in accordance with the pixel values of the arbitrary pixel.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a light emitting device which can display a superior image in which luminescent color from each light emitting layer is beautifully displayed and power consumption is lowered in a light emitting element in which light emitting layers are stacked. One feature of the invention is that, in a light emitting element which comprises light emitting layers stacked between electrodes, each distance between each light emitting layer and an electrode is odd multiples of quarter wavelength with a range of plus or minus 10% thereof by controlling a thickness of a layer provided therebetween to enhance luminous output efficiency. Another feature of the invention is that a drive voltage is lowered using a high conductive material for the layer compared with a conventional element.