Optical sensors and optical markers are placed on components in a medical system to provide calibration and alignment, such as on a patient transportation mechanism and spatially separated medical diagnostic devices. Image processing circuitry uses the data captured by these optical devices to coordinate their movements and/or position. This enables scans that were captured in multiple medical diagnostic devices to be accurately aligned.

A radiation imaging system includes a setting information storage that stores setting information to be used for radiation imaging, a setting information backup unit configured to back up the setting information stored in the setting information storage, and an operation control unit configured to restore, in a case the setting information storage has failed, the setting information in the setting information storage based on the setting information backed up in the setting information backup unit.

A radiographic imaging system includes a radiographic detector programmed to display the patient identifying information in human readable form and to access information about the patient stored in locations accessible through a network. Embodiments of methods and/or apparatus for a radiographic imaging system can include a radiographic detector including an image receptor to receive incident radiation and generate uncorrected electronic image data; network accessible storage and/or processor to generate calibration-corrected image data from the uncorrected electronic image data provided from the detector. The calibration-corrected image data can be further processed by the network accessible processor before transmitting a corrected image (e.g., DICOM image) back to the radiographic imaging system.

A medical apparatus includes a control unit including at least a first control module; a support device for a patient; a machine for allowing a diagnosis having an X-ray source, an X-ray detector, a supporting frame, supporting the source and detector, and a base frame supporting the supporting frame. The first control module is electrically coupled to the detector to receive a signal relating to the X-rays detected and processes the signal to derive an image. The support device includes a portion that can be inclined between non-operating and operating positions. The supporting frame can be inclined, with respect to the base frame, by rotation about an axis of inclination, between first and second operating positions to allow a diagnostic examination in the first or second operating positions. A coupling device between the support device and the base frame provides a removable coupling therebetween.

The present disclosure is related to automatic collimator installation systems and methods. An automatic collimator installation method may include obtaining an installation instruction for installing a target collimator into a medical scanner; identifying, from a plurality of collimators stored in a collimator storage device, the target collimator based on the installation instruction; using a cart to transport the target collimator from the collimator storage device to the medical scanner; and automatically installing, using the cart, the target collimator into the medical scanner.

A mammography apparatus includes: a compression plate that compresses a breast; a moving unit that moves the compression plate in a compression direction in which the breast is compressed and a decompression direction in which the breast is decompressed; a radiation source that emits radiation; and a control unit that controls the moving unit such that the compression plate is moved to a first position in the compression direction, is moved to a second position where the position of the compression plate is changed from the first position by a predetermined variation or more in the decompression direction, and is stopped and performs control such that the radiation is emitted from the radiation source to the breast.

A medical imaging system includes at least an image plate, X-ray device for producing an image of an object on said image plate, and a reading device for reading image information held by the image plate. In connection with the image plate there is a tag containing information for controlling the arrangement in such a manner that when the arrangement has read the information in the tag the arrangement is adapted to perform at least one operation controlled by the information read.

Provided is an X-ray detector including: a data transceiver configured to wirelessly receive identification (ID) information relating to a central controller from the central controller when the X-ray detector is in a sharing mode in which the X-ray detector exchanges certain data with the central controller; and a processor configured to perform a configuration based on the received ID information.

The present disclosure provides a method and system for controlling a medical device. The method for controlling the medical device may include: obtaining information related to the medical device and/or information related to a target object; controlling the medical device based on the information related to the medical device and/or the information related to the target object.

Disclosed is a miniaturized phantom that can be placed against breast tissue during mammography. The phantom is provided with various radiological features that can be compared to the image of the breast tissue. The phantom is situated to be included in one or more mammography images. The phantom is at least partially opaque to the radiation of the image and contains features such as step wedges of different density, pillars that show radiation incidence, sweep gratings that show variations of radiation amplitude and a unique bar code to identify patients. The phantoms can be used in images containing them to assess various radiological features in a quantitative way.