In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.

An X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprises an X-ray tube and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube includes a rotary anode. The processing circuitry is configured to derive an acquiring condition from a fluoroscopic image, and start to increase, in accordance with the acquiring condition derived, a rotating speed of the anode from a low rotating speed to a high rotating speed before the X-ray tube finishes emitting an X-ray to acquire the fluoroscopic image.

In the radiography system, a camera provided in an X-ray source captures a camera image indicating a usage environment in which an electronic cassette is used. The electronic cassette is inserted into the field of view of the camera. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. A cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with registration information set in a console and a use cassette setting process is performed on the basis of the collation result.

The present disclosure provides systems, devices, and methods for scanning parameter determination. The systems may display, via a user terminal, a user interface including one or more input items for a user to input clinical information relating to a target subject. The clinical information may at least include symptom information. The systems may receive, from the user terminal, the clinical information relating to the target subject. The systems may further determine, based on the clinical information using a scanning parameter determination model, recommended values of scanning parameters to be used in a scan of the target subject. The scanning parameter determination model may be a trained machine learning model.

In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.

The present invention relates to phantom device for a dark field imaging system. Although dark field imaging is known to be sensitive to changes in the micro-structure of the tissue of a human subject that may be caused during a disease progression, there may be a need to quantify information provided by an image of the human subject. A detector signal component representing the dark image may be altered by changes of the X-ray spectrum which passes tissue of the human subject comprising micro-structures. This may be caused due to an attenuation of the X-ray radiation previously provided by an X-ray source, wherein the attenuation may be caused by tissue of the human subject, which covers said micro-structure comprising tissue. In order to provide information in clinical practice regarding the influence of attenuation to the X-ray radiation before it passes the micro-structure issue of the human subject, the phantom device for dark field imaging is proposed. The phantom device comprises a main body, wherein the main body comprises a plurality of reference parts. Each of the reference parts comprises an attenuation part and a de-coherence part. The attenuation part and the de-coherence part of the same reference part are stacked on top of each other. As a result, the different reference parts may imitate different portions of the human subject extending along a propagation direction of an X-ray radiation, which is propagated from an X-ray source of the dark field imaging system towards the corresponding X-ray detector. Thus, if the phantom device is scanned simultaneously or subsequently with the human subject, a dark field image may be acquired, which represents the human subject as well as the phantom device. From the image parts of the dark field image caused by the phantom device, a clinician may assess and classify the corresponding parts of the image, which relates to the human subject, for instance to the portions of the lung. The present invention further relates to an imaging system configured to scan a human subject together with the phantom device as well as a corresponding method.

A self-shielded, bench-top radiochemistry system, including a radioactive isotope dispensing module configured to draw an isotope out of a vial and dispense one or more metered doses of the isotope to a concentration module that concentrates the metered dose into a droplet amount of isotope and a synthesizer module that delivers the droplet amount of isotope along with one or more reagents to an electrowetting on dielectrics (EWOD) chip to produce a radiolabeled molecule.

Various embodiments of a device for in-vivo measurements radiopharmaceuticals used for diagnosis and monitoring of radiotherapy are presented. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a device having a cannula that may include a measurement chamber, a radiation detector and a delivery lumen, wherein the device may be used to both deliver material to the patient (e.g., radiotracers used in radiopharmaceuticals) and measure levels and concentrations of radioactive material in, for example, the patient's blood both during and after administration of the radioactive material. In some embodiments, particles emitted by the radioactive material interact with a scintillation material, resulting in the release of light that may be transmitted, via the scintillation material and/or fiber optic material, to an optical detectors or processor for processing. In some embodiments, particle absorbing materials may be used to limit measurements to materials within the measurement chamber or other area of interest.

The present invention relates to phantom device for a dark field imaging system. Although dark field imaging is known to be sensitive to changes in the micro-structure of the tissue of a human subject that may be caused during a disease progression, there may be a need to quantify information provided by an image of the human subject. A detector signal component representing the dark field image may be altered by changes of the X-ray spectrum which passes tissue of the human subject comprising micro-structures. This may be caused due to an attenuation of the X-ray radiation previously provided by an X-ray source, wherein the attenuation may be caused by tissue of the human subject, which covers said micro-structure comprising tissue. In order to provide information in clinical practice regarding the influence of attenuation to the X-ray radiation before it passes the micro-structure issue of the human subject, the phantom device for dark field imaging is proposed. The phantom device comprises a main body, wherein the main body comprises a plurality of reference parts. Each of the reference parts comprises an attenuation part and a de-coherence part. The attenuation part and the de-coherence part of the same reference part are stacked on top of each other. As a result, the different reference parts may imitate different portions of the human subject extending along a propagation direction of an X-ray radiation, which is propagated from an X-ray source of the dark field imaging system towards the corresponding X-ray detector. Thus, if the phantom device is scanned simultaneously or subsequently with the human subject, a dark field image may be acquired, which represents the human subject as well as the phantom device. From the image parts of the dark field image caused by the phantom device, a clinician may assess and classify the corresponding parts of the image, which relates to the human subject, for instance to the portions of the lung. The present invention further relates to an imaging system configured to scan a human subject together with the phantom device as well as a corresponding method.

A support program is a program for supporting creation of an interpretation report including a medical image obtained by examining a patient and a region of interest to focus on in the medical image. The support program causes a computer to function as: a reading unit that reads a plurality of interpretation reports created by a plurality of examinations on the same part of the same patient; a difference detection unit that sets one of the plurality of interpretation reports as a detection target interpretation report and sets the others as comparison target interpretation reports, compares regions of interest of the detection target interpretation report and the comparison target interpretation reports, and detects a region of interest, which is present in the comparison target interpretation reports but is not present in the detection target interpretation report, as a difference region; and a notification screen distribution unit that, in a case where the difference region is detected, notifies that the difference region has been detected.