Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; a transmission section which supplies the probe with a drive signal; a receiving section which receives a reception signal sent from the probe; an image generation section which generates frame image data obtained by converting the reception signal; an intermediate image generation section which detects a moved image, identifies a move source and a move destination of the detected image based on a plurality of frame image data, and generates intermediate image data which allocates the moved image at a position obtained by intermediating the identified move source and the identified move destination of the detected image; and a display section which displays the ultrasound diagnosis image, wherein the display section displays the ultrasound diagnosis image so that intermediate image is inserted and displayed in a chronological order into image based on the frame image data.

Abstract: Regions where metastatic cancer cells can exist are detected with high accuracy in a sentinel lymph node. Quantum dots are injected into the vicinity of a cancer in a living body, thereby identifying the location of the sentinel lymph node by means of fluorescence. Subsequently, the sentinel lymph node is extracted. With respect to the sentinel lymph node extracted with quantum dots injected, structural analysis is conducted by means of precision fluorescence measurement which uses a confocal fluorescence microscope for monomolecular observation. Specifically, the fluorescence intensity is measured with respect to each of multiple areas in the sentinel lymph nodes, and out of the multiple areas measured, one or more areas are detected as afferent lymph vessel inflow regions in descending order of fluorescence intensity.

Abstract: The ultrasound probe includes an error correcting code generating unit to generate error correcting codes corresponding to the ultrasound data, adds the error correcting codes generated by the error correcting code generating unit to the ultrasound data so as to produce transmission data, and transmits the transmission data to the processing unit. The processing unit includes an error correcting unit to perform error correction processing for the ultrasound data based on the error correcting codes contained in the transmission data, and an error ratio detecting unit to detect an error ratio of data in the ultrasound data contained in the transmission data, and transmits information corresponding to the error ratio detected by the error ratio detecting unit to the ultrasound probe. The error correcting code generating unit changes a ratio of error correcting codes to the ultrasound data in accordance with the error ratio received by the ultrasound probe.

Abstract: Provided is a radiographic imaging apparatus capable of obtaining more suitable radiological images by reducing the influence of noise generated at a current detecting section which detects current carried by applying radiation.

Abstract: A scintillator panel which has achieved enhanced sharpness and sensitivity is disclosed, comprising on a first support a phosphor layer comprising phosphor columnar crystals formed by a process of vapor phase deposition and containing a parent component of cesium iodide (CsI) and an activator of thallium (Tl), and the phosphor layer comprising a first layer of a CsI layer which is in the bottom portion of the phosphor layer and does not contain any activator of thallium, and on the first layer, a second layer of a CsI—Tl layer which contains the activator of thallium and exhibits not more than 32% of a coefficient of variation of concentration of thallium in the direction of thickness.

Abstract: A method of producing an ultrasonic probe may include superimposing an ultrasonic wave receiving organic piezoelectric element layer made of an organic material on an ultrasonic wave transmitting inorganic piezoelectric element layer made of an inorganic material, and polarizing the ultrasonic wave receiving organic piezoelectric element layer and the ultrasonic wave transmitting inorganic piezoelectric element layer on a condition that the ultrasonic wave receiving organic piezoelectric element layer is superimposed on the ultrasonic wave transmitting inorganic piezoelectric element layer.

Abstract: An ultrasound probe comprising a transmitting piezoelectric layer, an electrode layer and a receiving piezoelectric layer laminated in that order, the ultrasound probe transmitting and receiving an ultrasound, wherein a polarization treatment on the receiving piezoelectric layer is carried out by providing a peelable dielectric layer on the receiving piezoelectric layer.

Abstract: A cassette type radiographic image detector may include a housing including a first surface on which radiation enters and a second surface as a back surface opposite to the first surface, and a detection panel housed within the housing which detects radiation transmitted through the first surface. The housing may be configured to disperse an external force by transmitting a vertical component of the external force from one of the first or second surface to the other of the first or second surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a scintillator panel in which no dust is generated when improving protrusions on the phosphor surface, resulting in no generation of image defects caused by the dust, to-provide a scintillator panel exhibiting excellent image quality and a radiation image detector thereof. The scintillator panel includes a support having a phosphor layer formed thereon. The method includes forming the phosphor layer on the support, and subsequently heat-treating the support and the phosphor layer which are sandwiched by two rigid plates under applied pressure.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material which has excellent piezoelectric characteristics and excellent handling properties. Also disclosed are an ultrasound transducer using the organic piezoelectric material, an ultrasound probe, and an ultrasound medical diagnostic imaging system. Specifically disclosed is an organic piezoelectric material which contains a base material that is formed from a resin, and a specific compound (1) that has at least one linking group selected from among specific linking groups. The organic piezoelectric material is characterized in that the relation shown below is satisfied when the CLogP values of the specific compound (1) and the base material are respectively represented by CLogP(1) and CLogP(base material). Relation: |CLogP(1)?CLogP(base material)|?3.0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique capable of generating and providing information in which various elements are associated with one another in accordance with situations. An information processing system has a server and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals obtains element associated information obtained by associating elements belonging to items included in a plurality of element items and transmits the element associated information to the server. The server receives the element associated information from each of the terminals. In the case where one or more terminals included in the plurality of terminals satisfies a specific condition, the server generates network information obtained by associating elements belonging to the items between the items on the basis of one or more pieces of element associated information received from the one or more terminals.

Abstract: A microreactor capable of reaction between a sample and a mixed reagent containing a mixture of multiple reagents, which microreactor avoids the interposition of air between driving solution and reagents and realizes high-precision controlling of the timing of mixing of reagents and other liquids, the mixing ratio of liquids, the pressure for liquid feeding, etc. Further, there is provided a method of liquid feeding making use of the same. Accordingly, a flow path branched at the position of an inlet from a flow path through which an opening communicating with an external pump communicates with the inlet is provided with an air evacuation flow path with its terminal open outward. Further, the flow path resistance of the air evacuation flow path for a liquid is made greater than the flow path resistance, for the liquid, of a flow channel from the reagent storage chamber to a reagent feed-out flow path.

Abstract: A scintillator plate which is excellent in sharpness and luminance is disclosed, comprising sequentially on a substrate a reflection layer and a scintillator layer containing cesium iodide and an activator and having a thickness of L, wherein the following requirement (1) is met: 2?B/A??Requirement (1) wherein A is an average activator concentration of the scintillator layer and B is an activator concentration in a region of the scintillator layer from the reflection layer side to the position of L/5.

Abstract: An active ray-curable ink comprising a pigment, a photoinitiator, a polymerizable compound, a compound represented by following Formula (1), and a urethane polymer or a urethane oligomer having no photopolymerizable group in a molecule: wherein at least either of R1 and R2 represents an alkoxy group having a carbon number of 4-10; and at least one of R3, R4, R5, and R6 represents an alkyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, or an alkoxy group having a carbon number of 4-9, and has a secondary or tertiary carbon atom at a binding site to the anthracene ring.

Abstract: Disclosed is a quantum dot-embedded silica nanoparticle having plural quantum dots embedded within the silica nanoparticle, wherein the number of quantum dots existing in a concentric area within 10% of a radius from a center of the silica nanoparticle accounts for 10 to 70% of the number of total quantum dots embedded in the silica nanoparticle.

Abstract: In the present invention, provided is an organic piezoelectric material specifically exhibiting high orientation and thermal stability as an organic piezoelectric material exhibiting an excellent piezoelectric characteristic and having piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity, which is capable of converting thermal or mechanical simulation into electrical energy, and also provided are an ultrasound probe for which the organic piezoelectric material is used, and an ultrasound image detector thereof. It is a feature that an organic piezoelectric material of the present invention possesses a compound represented by Formula (1) and a base material made of an organic polymeric material, satisfying Expression (1): |CLogP (1)?CLogP (base material)|?3.0 when CLogP values of the compound and the base material are expressed as CLogP (1) and CLogP (base material), respectively.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes a control unit for grouping input medical images from every same examination of a same patient by using accompanying information of the input medical images, and for saving the grouped medical images in a storage unit. When a medical image is newly input, the control unit collates accompanying information of the newly input medical image with the accompanying information of the grouped medical images to thereby judge whether the newly input medical image has been obtained by additional radiography or by re-radiography. The control unit regroups the newly input medical image and the grouped medical images from a same examination of a same patient by using the accompanying information, when the control unit judges that the newly input medical image has been obtained by either additional radiography or re-radiography.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescent semiconductor microparticle assembly comprising at least three kinds of fluorescent semiconductor microparticles with an average particle size of from 1 to 10 nm, having the same chemical composition, a different average particle size and a different emission maximum wavelength in the emission spectra, wherein a standard deviation of emission intensity in each of the at least three kinds of fluorescent semiconductor microparticles is not more than 15%.

Abstract: A report generation management device includes a storage unit which stores interpretation report information, and a control unit. The control unit generates a plurality of pieces of interpretation report information for one examination, stores the generated pieces of the interpretation report information in the storage unit, and manages the generated pieces of the interpretation report information by correlating the generated pieces of the interpretation report information with the examination.

Abstract: An ultrasonic probe includes at least one transmission element layer for transmitting ultrasonic waves, at least one reception element layer for receiving ultrasonic waves and which is provided with an electrode on each of both surfaces opposed in a direction of a thickness thereof, and at least one matching layer for matching acoustic impedance. These layers are arranged in this order in a direction of transmitting the ultrasonic waves. The reception element layer is provided with a projecting portion projecting in a direction of elevation from upper and lower layers which sandwich the two electrodes respectively formed on both surfaces of the reception element layer, and at least one of the electrodes is formed by extending to the projecting portion.