Abstract: A radiation emitting target, a radiation generating device, and a radiography system are provided in which adhesion between a target layer and a diamond substrate is improved and stable radiation emitting properties are exhibited. A transmission type target includes a target layer, a carbon-containing region including sp2 bonds, and a diamond substrate that supports the target layer. The carbon-containing region is positioned between the target layer and the diamond substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments disclose methods and apparatus for managing the provision of radiotherapy treatment. The method includes storing a database of calibration settings for a plurality of components of a first radiotherapy system. The calibration settings may be used by the first radiotherapy system to translate treatment plans into instructions for the plurality of components to carry out. The method further includes deriving from the database allowable ranges of values for the calibration settings. The method also includes receiving from a second radiotherapy system calibration settings for the second radiotherapy system prior to implementation of a treatment plan, comparing the calibration settings for the second radiotherapy system with the derived allowable ranges of values, and generating an alert signal when a subset of the calibration settings for the second radiotherapy system falls outside the allowable range of values.

Abstract: The present approach relates to scatter correction of signals acquired using radiation detectors on a pixel-by-pixel basis. In certain implementations, the systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate scatter correction for signals generated using a detector having segmented detector elements, such as may be present in an energy-resolving, photon-counting CT imaging system.

Abstract: A transmission system is disclosed for the contactless transmission of at least one electrical and/or electromagnetic signal from a first device part of a data-generating device to a second device part of the device by way of electrical and/or electromagnetic coupling. The first device part is set up to perform a movement relative to the second device part during operation. The transmission system includes a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit, either being arrangable on the first device part and the other being arrangable on the second device part. The first transmission unit includes a first coupler and a first auxiliary coupler and the second transmission unit includes a second coupler. For the electrical and/or electromagnetic coupling, the coupling strengths between the first coupler and the second coupler and between the first auxiliary coupler and the second coupler have different functional distance dependences.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to medical diagnostic high-frequency X-ray machines and power supply devices thereof. One power supply device can convert an alternating current into a direct current, which is further raised by a boost circuit and stored by a capacitor module, so that the power supply device can provide high voltage and sufficient power to an inverter. Another power supply device can use a lithium iron phosphate battery to power the X-ray machine. Accordingly, the X-ray machine can be lighter, smaller, resistant to high temperature, fast in electrical charging and discharging, and safer, and the usage life of the X-ray machine can be prolonged due to the long cycle life of the lithium iron phosphate battery.

Abstract: An X-ray generating device includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray tube drive circuit, an electron acceleration voltage generation circuit, and a control unit communicating with the drive circuit and the voltage generation circuit, the X-ray tube, the drive circuit, and the voltage generation circuit are arranged inside a storage container filled with an insulating oil, a path connecting the drive circuit and the control unit includes an optical fiber cable arranged inside the storage container, the optical fiber cable has a coating that suppresses fluctuation due to a convective flow of the insulating oil, the coating is cured by, from a resin material containing a plasticizer, a part of the plasticizer being leaching out, and the control unit is configured to facilitate leaching of the plasticizer by driving the voltage generation circuit to apply a voltage to the optical fiber cable in a state of no X-ray being generated.

Abstract: An X-ray input apparatus includes a body mountable on a holder of an X-ray imaging apparatus, an exposure button provided at an upper portion of the body and configured to receive an X-ray exposure ready command and an X-ray exposure command from a user, an input communicator communicating with the holder via a Bluetooth communication network, and an input controller controlling the input communicator to generate a Bluetooth packet comprising the X-ray exposure ready signal or the X-ray exposure signal and transmit the generated Bluetooth packet to the holder when the X-ray exposure ready command or the X-ray exposure command is input to the exposure button.

Abstract: In an X-ray inspection apparatus, X-ray images of an inspection object horizontally divided at a predetermined vertical position are acquired for each fixed rotational angle of the inspection object over 360° by a two-dimensional X-ray detector. Processing for synthesizing X-ray images acquired at the same rotational angle of the inspection object among the X-ray images taken in from the X-ray detector by horizontally joining the X-ray images together is executed for each fixed rotational angle of the inspection object. Processing for vertically dividing the synthesized X-ray image into a plurality of strip X-ray images is executed. Thereafter, processing for generating a CT image is executed by performing a computation based on the strip X-ray images for 360° that are at the same vertical position.

Abstract: A detector is disclosed for detecting X-ray and/or gamma radiation, including a scintillator element for converting the X-ray and/or gamma radiation into light. The scintillator element has at least one side surface, an upper side and a lower side, a first photodiode on the lower side of the scintillator element. The detector further includes an electronic evaluation device, a light source designed to illuminate the scintillator element, and a light-impermeable housing which surrounds the scintillator element, the first photodiode, the electronic evaluation device and the light source.

Abstract: A system and method for measuring a dose of ionizing radiation received by a pre-determined part of the body during radiotherapy or interventional procedures. The system comprises: a) a light guide, which under the influence of ionizing radiation undergoes measurable and quantifiable physical changes; b) a detector system which allows the recording and quantification of the signal emitted by the light guide; and c) a control unit which is adapted for calculating a dose of ionizing radiation previously or simultaneously received by the light guide on basis of said response signal. The light guide is coated over at least part of its length with a coating comprising a first component acting as a place dependent spectral filter and a second component including at least one luminescent material, dispersed in a transparent matrix. When exposed to radiation, the luminescent component will emit light with a spectrum depending on the chosen material.

Abstract: A flexible, durable, sanitary, adhesive-backed sheet is applied to the skin-contacting surfaces of a mammography bucky prior to commencing a mammography procedure, and is removed from the bucky once the procedure is complete, without leaving a residue behind. The sheet is made of a non-woven polymeric material that gives the sheet a fabric-like or cloth feel, and is substantially incompressible in response to forces applied during a mammography procedure. The sheet insulates the patient from the temperature differential between the patient's skin and the bucky surfaces. Additionally, the surface of the sheet is embossed with a texture, markings or raised features to enhance the fabric-like feel.

Abstract: One embodiment, control circuitry executes at least one of a start operation and a stop operation. For a start operation, the control circuitry accelerates a top support portion along a forward direction before moving a top when starting to move an object in a scan after positioning the top support portion at a moving start position decided based on a scan condition and accelerates the top to a set speed along the forward direction after a first predetermined time since start of acceleration control on the top support portion. For a stop operation, the control circuitry accelerates the top support portion along the forward direction when decelerating the top and stops the top after a second predetermined time since start of acceleration control on the top support portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dental X-ray imaging apparatus having a radiographing housing so as to provide a stable radiographing environment to an examinee. The dental X-ray radiographing apparatus includes a radiographing unit including a rotary arm, an X-ray generator, and an X-ray sensor, and a radiographing housing for covering an upper part, an outside and an inside of an operating range of the radiographing unit. The imaging apparatus further includes a lifter configured to move the radiographing housing, and a handle frame disposed at a lower part of the radiographing housing with a variable height and including a chin rest, wherein the lifter moves the radiographing housing such that the distance between the chin rest and the radiographing housing is constant.

Abstract: An imaging marker positioning system is provided. The imaging marker positioning system embodies a plurality of markers slidable along an elastic band. Guide clips may removably secure the elastic band to the imaging device so that a first portion of the elastic band may be disposed within a field of view of the imaging device. A user may slide one or more predetermined markers onto the first portion, whereby an image of the marker is captured in the resulting X-ray image. Additionally, the user may adjust the guide clips and/or the elastic band to reposition the first portion relative to the field of view of the imaging device.

Abstract: A system has an imaging system housing and an x-ray source, thereto, a compression arm assembly housing, a support, and a detector. A paddle is disposed between the support and the x-ray source. A bottom surface of the paddle at least partially defines a plane. When in a rest position, the plane is substantially parallel to the support. A pivot mechanism connects the paddle to the compression arm assembly housing. The pivot mechanism defines an axis of rotation substantially parallel to a sagittal plane of the patient. The pivot mechanism has at least one biasing element for biasing the paddle into the rest position.

Abstract: This X-ray phase imaging apparatus is provided with a control unit that acquires information on a defect of a material based on a dark field image of the material.

Abstract: Embodiments disclose a radiotherapy apparatus comprising a source of radiation configured to emit a beam of radiation and a collimator structure configured to limit a lateral extent of the beam, the collimator structure including a primary collimator configured to shape the beam, a first collimator comprising a plurality of adjacent elongate leaves, the leaves being extendable into the beam in a first direction transverse to the beam, and a block collimator including an aperture configured to permit the beam to pass through, the block collimator being extendable into the beam in a second direction transverse to the beam and transverse to the first direction. In some embodiments, the aperture may be cone-shaped or a through-hole, which may be empty or filled with a radiotransparent material. In some embodiments, the block collimator may include a plurality of apertures, which may be of varying dimensions.

Abstract: A fluoroscopy machine allows programming of a frame rate in the range of multiple seconds per frame and then displays the images at a higher rate in a loop in the radiological theater so as to impart an improved sense of motion to a human observer of a slow physiological processes captured by fluoroscopic studies.

Abstract: An imaging system (1400) includes a first and a second focal spot (1410I and 1410N), a first pre-patient radiation beam filter (1416) disposed between the first focal spot and the examination region and having a first profile and a second pre-patient radiation beam filter (1416N) disposed between the second focal spot and the examination region and having a second profile, and a source controller (1412) that controls an operation of the focal spots by modulating the operation during a scan based on at least one of an angular position of focal spots, a shape of a region of interest of subject or object being scanned, or based on a change in size between two adjacent regions of the subject or object being scanned.

Abstract: A portable radiation imaging apparatus including: a detection section which includes a plurality of radiation detection elements for accumulating electric charges corresponding to a radiation amount, the radiation detection elements being two-dimensionally arranged; and a control section which controls accumulation of the electric charges in the radiation detection elements and reading of the accumulated electric charges from the radiation detection elements and generates a plurality of frame images of a subject, the electric charges to be accumulated corresponding to the radiation amount of radiation emitted in a pulsed manner by a radiation source and transmitted through the subject, wherein the control section adjusts a synchronization timing between the radiation source and the detection section by using a waveform of radiation emitted by the radiation source, the waveform being obtained by reading electric charges from at least a part of the plurality of radiation detection elements.