A plurality of radiation imaging systems each comprises a radiation imaging apparatus and a control apparatus. The radiation imaging apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to transmit apparatus information for identifying an apparatus to the control apparatus of the radiation imaging system as a movement destination, a display unit configured to display a name and a state of the radiation imaging apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display unit. The control apparatus comprises a search unit configured to search for apparatus information usable in the radiation imaging system as the movement destination based on the transmitted apparatus information, a decision unit configured to decide, based on a result of the search, a name to be assigned to the radiation imaging apparatus, and a communication unit configured to transmit the name to the radiation imaging apparatus.

Provided are a radiation detector, a radiographic imaging apparatus, and a manufacturing method that include a TFT substrate in which a plurality of pixels that accumulate electric charges generated depending on light converted from radiation are formed in a pixel region of a first surface of a flexible base material and a terminal region of the first surface is provided with a terminal for electrically connecting a flexible cable; a conversion layer that is provided outside the terminal region on the first surface of the base material to convert the radiation into light; a first reinforcing substrate that is provided on a surface of the conversion layer opposite to a surface on a TFT substrate side and has a higher stiffness than the base material; and a second reinforcing substrate that is provided on a second surface of the base material opposite to the first surface to cover a surface larger than the first reinforcing substrate, and that are capable of suppressing that a defect occurs in the substrate and have an excellent peeling property in a reworking process.

An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron emission detectors configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordinate system, and a controller coupled to the radiation source and the coincident positron emission detectors, the controller configured to identify coincident positron annihilation emission paths intersecting one or more volumes in the coordinate system and align the radiation source along an identified coincident positron annihilation emission path.

A system and method for imaging by gamma radiation detection having at least one processing unit analyzing at least one signal provided by at least one set of detection modules mounted on a frame and including, on the one hand, at least one module of Compton camera type having a field of view directed towards a volume delimited by the frame and, on the other hand, at least one pair of coincidence detection PET modules, diametrically opposite to each other on the frame and defining an imaging axis, the processing unit analyzing the signal derived from the Compton-type module to determine the intersection of the imaging axis with the field of view and to determine the optimal orientations and/or locations of the various detection modules on the frame so that the imaging axis passes through the source of the gamma radiation in the object to be imaged.

A plurality of radiation imaging systems each comprises a radiation imaging apparatus and a control apparatus. The radiation imaging apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to transmit apparatus information for identifying an apparatus to the control apparatus of the radiation imaging system as a movement destination, a display unit configured to display a name and a state of the radiation imaging apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display unit. The control apparatus comprises a search unit configured to search for apparatus information usable in the radiation imaging system as the movement destination based on the transmitted apparatus information, a decision unit configured to decide, based on a result of the search, a name to be assigned to the radiation imaging apparatus, and a communication unit configured to transmit the name to the radiation imaging apparatus.

An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron emission detectors configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordinate system, and a controller coupled to the radiation source and the coincident position emission detectors, the controller configured to identify coincident positron annihilation emission paths intersecting one or more volumes in the coordinate system and align the radiation source along an identified coincident positron annihilation emission path.

A spectrometer includes a crystal analyzer having a radius of curvature that defines a Rowland circle, a sample stage configured to support a sample such that the sample is offset from the Rowland circle, an x-ray source configured to emit unfocused x-rays toward the sample stage, and a position-sensitive detector that is tangent to the Rowland circle. A method performed via a spectrometer includes emitting, via an x-ray source, unfocused x-rays toward a sample that is mounted on a sample stage such that the sample is offset from the Rowland Circle, thereby causing the sample to emit x-rays that impinge on the crystal analyzer or transmit a portion of the unfocused x-rays to impinge on the crystal analyzer; scattering, via the crystal analyzer, the x-rays that impinge on the crystal analyzer; and detecting the scattered x-rays via a position-sensitive detector that is tangent to the Rowland circle.

Systems, methods, and computer software are disclosed for determining a shape of a radiation field generated by a radiation delivery system through the use of a scintillator and a camera that is configured to acquire images of light emitted by the scintillator during delivery of a radiation beam. A support structure may be mounted to the radiation delivery system and the scintillator and camera may be fixed to the support structure such that the scintillator is not perpendicular to the axis of the radiation beam. An edge detection algorithm may be applied to radiation patterns present in the camera images in order to determine the location of an edge of a leaf of a multi-leaf collimator.

Disclosed herein is a method, comprising: capturing portion images of scene portions (i), i=1, . . . , N of a scene with radiation detectors of an image sensor. For i=1, . . . , N, Qi portion images of the scene portion (i) are respectively captured by Qi radiation detectors of the P radiation detectors, Qi being an integer greater than 1. The Qi portion images are of the portion images. The method further includes, for i=1, . . . , N, generating an enhanced portion image (i) from the Qi portion images of the scene portion (i). Generating the enhanced portion image (i) is based on positions and orientations of the Qi radiation detectors with respect to the image sensor and displacements between Qi imaging positions of the scene with respect to the image sensor. The scene is at the Qi imaging positions when the Qi radiation detectors respectively capture the Qi portion images.

A radiation image capturing apparatus including a sensor substrate including a flexible base material and a plurality of pixels accumulating electric charges generated in accordance with radiation, a flexible first cable of which one end is electrically connected to the sensor substrate, and a flexible first circuit substrate that is electrically connected to the other end of the first cable and in which a first circuit unit driven in a case of reading out the electric charges accumulated in the plurality of pixels is mounted is provided.