A system that comprises an X-ray imaging device for capturing an X-ray image on an imaging film, and a device for reading out said imaging film. The imaging film includes an optically readable marking, and the X-ray imaging device and/or the readout device includes a device for reading information stored on the data carrier, the data device being designed to register the optically readable marking using said readout device. A method for providing information for a readout device is also disclosed.

Arrangement to reduce a time until a first image is displayed, to reduce a standby time until the next imaging is started, and to uniformize a time interval in a case where a plurality of images are displayed. An X-ray CT device detects a dose of an X-ray, a storage unit that preserves image data, a calculation unit that generates, as the image data, projection data on the basis of the X-ray data in parallel to an imaging process in the scanner, preserves the projection data, notifies a display control unit of preservation information, performs a reconstruction process, a display unit that displays an image generated per the X-ray data, and the display control unit that controls a display timing of a reconstructed image to be displayed on the display unit on the basis of the preservation information and the reconstruction information.

A radiation dose received by a patient from a radiation therapy system can be verified by acquiring a cine stream of image frames from an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) that is arranged to detect radiation exiting the patient during irradiation. The cine stream of EPID image frames can be processed in real-time to form exit images providing absolute dose measurements at the EPID (dose-to-water values), which is representative of the characteristics of the radiation received by the patient. Compliance with predetermined characteristics for the field can be determined during treatment by periodically comparing the absolute dose measurements with the predetermined characteristics, which can include a predicted total dose in the field after full treatment and/or a complete irradiation area outline (CIAO). The system operator can be alerted or the irradiation automatically stopped when non-compliance is detected.

Embodiments provide image capturing apparatuses having a screen, a plurality of mirrors and a plurality of cameras. The plurality of mirrors and the plurality of cameras is arranged such that the plurality of cameras capture a portion of the screen via a respective one of the plurality of mirrors, wherein the plurality of cameras is arranged obliquely with respect to the screen.

This X-ray imaging apparatus includes a control unit for performing control to select one blood vessel image in which a blood vessel is clearly reflected from a plurality of blood vessel images stored in the storage unit when capturing a fluoroscopic image and performing control to display a superimposed image in which the selected blood vessel image and the fluoroscopic image are superimposed on the display unit.

Provided is a non-transitory storage medium that stores a computer readable program for a computer configured to output and/or input medical information, the program causing the computer to perform: reading the medical information; and determining whether an escape sequence for switching a character encoding is established in the medical information read in the reading.

The electronic cassette includes a portable housing. A CPU of the electronic cassette functions as a RW controller, a first determination unit, and a mode controller. The RW controller acquires a standard pose as a pose of the housing in a stored state, in which the housing is stored in a storage portion of a movable radiography apparatus, from a ROM. The first determination unit determines whether the housing is in the stored state or a taken-out state, in which the housing is taken out from the storage portion, based on the standard pose and a current pose as a current pose of the housing detected by a pose detection sensor. The mode controller switches the drive mode from the sleep mode to the radiography mode in a case where the first determination unit determines that the housing is brought from the stored state into the taken-out state.

A computer-assisted imaging and localization system assists the physician in positioning surgical effecters, such as implants, tools and instruments, within a surgical site in a patient's body. The system displays overlapping images—one image of the surgical site with the patient's anatomy and another image showing the surgical effecter(s). The overlapping image of the surgical effecter(s) is moved over the static image of the anatomy as the implant/instrument is moved. The movement of the surgical effecter(s) is determined in a three-dimensional coordinate system at a home base location in the patient's anatomy, which home base can be moved during the procedure without interrupting the displays of the overlapping images.

A system having an X-ray imaging device for capturing an X-ray image on an imaging film, and a device for reading out the imaging film. The imaging film includes a data carrier, and the X-ray imaging device and/or readout device comprises includes a data device that has a write/read device for writing, on the data carrier, imaging parameters relating to the X-ray image capture and for reading information that is stored on the data carrier, the write/read device being configured to transmit the read information to the readout device such that the imaging parameters in force when capturing the X-ray image are available to the readout device for an imaging film readout. A method for providing information for a readout device is also provided.

Disclosed is a method for the quantification of pulmonary vessels by lobe, the method including extracting, at extraction unit, pulmonary vessels based on a medical image, locating, at analysis unit, voxels of pulmonary vessels with respect to the surface of a lobe, and quantifying, at calculation unit, the extracted pulmonary vessels.