Abstract: A cyber hospital system is connected to a remote terminal through a network. The cyber hospital system includes an input unit, a first processor, and a transmitter. The input unit is configured to input patient condition information from the remote terminal through the network. The first processor is configured to collect first doctor information based on the patient condition information. The transmitter is configured to transmit the first doctor information to the remote terminal.

Abstract: A system for assisting the creation of an electronic report assists the creation of electronic report data files and holds plural report templates. An appropriate template is selected from the plural report templates according to the inspection purpose. At an arbitrary time during an inspection, plural bookmarked data files are produced. Each bookmarked data file contains information identifying inspection data of interest. After the inspection, inspection data of interest is automatically identified by the bookmarked data files. The inspection data is automatically attached to the report template.

Abstract: The present invention is characterized by including: an information collection and provision system which receives use information on a state of use of plural medical apparatuses set in medical facilities and apparatus information on the medical apparatuses themselves, which are acquired by the plural medical apparatuses, via a network and stores the information; and a client terminal which accesses the information collection and provision system, sends a kind and a display format of the use information and the apparatus information to the information collection and provision system as setting information, and receives information obtained on the basis of the setting information from the information collection and provision system and displays the information. According to the constitution, a medical information and collection system with which a user is capable of obtaining desired information in a desired format can be provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image forming process for forming an image-recorded article having a coating layer on at least a part of an image formed, which comprises the steps of providing a liquid composition containing a polymer, providing an image-recorded article formed on a recording medium by an ink-jet recording method, and applying the liquid composition to at least a part of an image of the recorded article to insolubilize the polymer contained in the liquid composition on the surface of the image, thereby forming the coating layer at a position to which the liquid composition has been applied, wherein the recording medium has a surface which insolubilizes the polymer.

Abstract: A medical equipment management apparatus for managing a medical equipment provided in a medical facility connected to the apparatus through a network. The apparatus comprises a reception unit, a storage unit, a prediction unit, a determination unit, and an informing unit. The reception unit is configured to receive a parameter data regarding the medical equipment more than once. The storage unit is configured to store the parameter data, and the prediction unit is configured to calculate an expectancy of the parameter data to be received in the future based on the stored parameter data. Further, the determination unit is configured to determine a level of the expectancy, and the informing unit is configured to give a notice to the medical facility through the network according to the determined level.

Abstract: An ink set comprises a water-based ink containing a coloring material in a state dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous medium and a water-based reactive liquid containing a first component for insolubilizing or aggregating the coloring material in the ink by mixing with the water-based ink. The water-based reactive liquid contains a water-soluble high-molecular compound in a state dissolved therein. The water-based ink contains a second component, which is not insolubilized by the first component and the coloring material, in a state dissolved therein. The water-soluble high-molecular compound is not insolubilized by the first component and the coloring material but insolubilized by the second component.

Abstract: A reaction solution that is used for image recording with an ink containing a coloring material in a dissolved or dispersed state to destabilize the dissolved or dispersed state of the coloring material in the ink in contact with the ink to provide high quality and abrasion-resistant images, wherein the reaction solution contains at least a polyvalent metal ion and a nonionic polymer, the Ka value according to the Bristow method is from 1.3 mL·m−2·msec−1/2 to 3.0 mL·m−2·msec−1/2 inclusive, and the viscosity is from 20 mPa·s to 150 mPa·s inclusive.

Abstract: A recording unit and an image recording apparatus are of a configuration in which the black image and character formed by the black ink in the presence of the color ink satisfy various properties such as a high optical density, high image quality and high image fastness, and which also enables prevention of bleeding and white haze and saving of ink consumption. There is provided an ink jet head employing an ink set including black ink and color inks, in which the black ink contains a salt, an aqueous medium and a coloring material dispersed in the aqueous medium by the function of an ionic radical, and at least one of the color inks contains a polyvalent metal salt capable, when mixed with the black ink, of impairing the dispersion stability of the coloring material in the black ink.

Abstract: A reaction solution to be used for image recording with an ink containing a coloring material in a dissolved or dispersed state in order to achieve a high level of image density with stability, wherein the reaction solution contains a polyvalent metal ion and an organic solvent to destabilize the dissolved or dispersed state of the coloring material in the ink in contact with the ink, has a pH of 2 or higher, and has a buffering action for pH, wherein the buffering action means it can maintain pH variation within the range of 0.5 before and after the addition of 1.0 ml of a 0.1 N aqueous lithium hydroxide solution to 50 ml of the reaction solution.

Abstract: An X-ray image diagnostic apparatus in a medical institution is linked to an examination protocol providing server via a wide area network. The server has registered examination protocols including information related to X-ray image diagnoses, and searches for and provides an examination protocol in response to a request from each X-ray image diagnostic apparatus. This allows the diagnostic apparatus to use an examination protocol set in another apparatus in addition to an examination protocol set in itself. In this instance, because the server is furnished with a search function, the diagnostic apparatus can readily obtain arbitrary information from registered examination protocols.

Abstract: An amputated part holding apparatus has a contact member provided in a casing to define a particle charge chamber between the contact member and the casing. The contact member comes into pressing contact with an amputated part owing to increased pressure in the particle charge chamber. The chamber is charged with particles to generate pressing force. The amputated part holding apparatus is further provided with a particle supply unit including a particle charging device.

Abstract: An ink set which comprises a black ink containing an aqueous medium and a pigment dispersed in the aqueous medium by an action of an ionic group, and at least two color inks each containing a coloring material and an aqueous medium, wherein (i) respective images formed with the respective color inks have the same &Dgr;E or have the difference in &Dgr;E that is 10 or less in a CIELAB color space display system in a fading test under conditions that cause fading corresponding to pseudo-indoor sunlight fading through a window for 3 years or more, and (ii) at least one of the color inks contains at least one of a coloring material and an additive that destabilize dispersion stability of the pigment in the black ink. The ink set can provide a high quality multicolor image keeping color balance after long preservation and showing less bleeding between black and color regions.

Abstract: The ink jet recording head 1 of the invention is provided with a black ink nozzle array Bk1 for black ink constituting first ink, and plural color ink nozzle arrays C1 to C3 for discharging color inks. In a color ink nozzle array C1 having the shortest print distance from the black print formed by the black ink nozzle array Bk1, there is introduced a color ink showing the highest mutual reactivity with the black ink, and a color ink showing the next highest mutual reactivity is introduced into a nozzle array C2 having the next shortest print distance, and a color ink showing the lowest mutual reactivity is introduced into a nozzle array C3 having the longest print distance.

Abstract: An ink set for recording a color image on a recording medium by using ink of two or more colors including at least a black ink and a color ink, wherein the black ink includes a pigment having a cationic group or a pigment and a pigment dispersant having a cationic group, and a resin encapsulating a coloring material, and the color ink includes an anionic dye and an anionic substance, which can form a print excellent in the rub-off resistance and line marker resistance without bleeding between black and color images.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous ink, particularly an aqueous ink suitable for ink jet recording. The ink is an aqueous ink comprising a modified pigment having organic groups chemically attached to the surface of a particle of the pigment and an aqueous medium which is as a dispersant of the pigment, wherein the above-described organic group includes a reaction product of a functional group chemically attached to the surface of the pigment directly or via another atomic group with a copolymer of an ionic monomer and a hydrophobic monomer.

Abstract: An ultrasound treatment apparatus includes an ultrasound source for generating treatment ultrasound which is focused, a driving circuit for driving the ultrasound source to generate treatment ultrasound from the ultrasound source, and a controller for controlling to make the driving circuit drive the ultrasound source under an irradiation condition in which an optimization index obtained by the product of the focus intensity (W/cm2), the irradiation period (sec), and the frequency (MHz) all of the treatment ultrasound falls within an appropriate range from 6,000 (inclusive) to 40,000 (inclusive).

Abstract: An examination reserve system receipts a reserve request for an examination using a medical imaging apparatus. The examination reserve system receives information concerning a failure from the medical imaging apparatus. When a failure occurs in the medical imaging apparatus, the system lists receipted examination reserve requests.

Abstract: A recording unit is provided which includes an ink housing part for housing an ink containing a coloring material and an aqueous medium, and an ink jet head part for discharging an ink droplet of the ink, wherein at least one color of the ink is a polyvalent metal salt containing ink further containing a polyvalent metal salt; the ink jet head part for discharging at least the polyvalent metal salt containing ink has a configuration comprised of a substrate having on a base body, a heat-generating resistor member forming a heat-generating part, an electrode wire electrically connected to the heat-generating resistor member, and a cavitation resistant film provided on the heat-generating resistor member and the electrode wire via an insulating protection layer, and a liquid flow path communicating with a discharge port for discharging an ink droplet provided corresponding to the heat-generating part; and the cavitation resistant film includes a layer comprised of an amorphous alloy containing Ta and a layer co

Abstract: The invention provides a recording unit and an image recording apparatus of a configuration in which the black image and character formed by the black ink in the presence of the color ink satisfy various properties such as a high optical density, high image quality and high image fastness and which also enables prevention of bleeding and white haze and saving of the ink consumption.

Abstract: Disclosed is a portable, hand-held printing apparatus capable of maintaining high printing quality even when the movement of the apparatus becomes unstable due to looseness or wrinkles of a printing medium or even when the moving velocity of the apparatus changes. When a user moves the housing of this apparatus on a printing medium to print on the printing medium by using a printhead, the apparatus itself detects the moving velocity of the housing. On the basis of this detection result, the apparatus adjusts the supply timing of a driving signal for driving the printhead.