A real-time spatial magnetic positioning device, a radiographic imaging system and a magnetic positioning method is provided. The radiographic imaging system comprises a radiation source, a collimator, a flat panel detector, and a real-time spatial magnetic positioning device, wherein the magnetic positioning device comprises a processor, a magnetic field generating device and a magnetic sensor array; the magnetic field generating device is arranged coaxially with the collimator, a plurality of sensors of the magnetic sensor array is distributed on the flat panel detector; the magnetic field generating device is configured to generate an alternating magnetic field, the magnetic sensors are capable of independently detecting magnetic induction intensity in real time, and sending real-time detected data to the processor, and the processor determines a position relationship between the collimator and the flat panel detector according to the data detected by respective magnetic sensors in real time.

An X-ray imaging apparatus includes a sensor panel that converts incident radiation to an electric signal, a tabular metallic base plate including a front surface where the sensor panel is supported and a region where the tabular metallic base plate has a basic thickness, a circuit board disposed on a rear surface of the tabular metallic base plate, the rear surface being opposite to the front surface, wherein a thickness of the tabular metallic base plate in a region where the circuit board is disposed is larger than the basic thickness.

An X-ray imaging apparatus includes a sensor panel that converts incident radiation to an electric signal, a tabular metallic base plate including a front surface where the sensor panel is supported and a region where the tabular metallic base plate has a basic thickness, a circuit board disposed on a rear surface of the tabular metallic base plate, the rear surface being opposite to the front surface, wherein a thickness of the tabular metallic base plate in a region where the circuit board is disposed is larger than the basic thickness.

A system to retrieve medical X-rays includes a trained convolutional neural network (CNN), a balancing feature generator, a balancing type selector, and a K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) classifier. The trained CNN encodes a plurality of diagnosed X-ray images into a plurality of candidate embeddings, and encodes a partially diagnosed X-ray image into a query embedding. The balancing feature generator produces a plurality of virtual candidate embeddings from the query embedding and the plurality of candidate embeddings. The balancing type selector selects a subset of the plurality of virtual candidate embeddings. The KNN classifier performs a KNN search between the query embedding and a plurality of the candidate embeddings and the subset of the plurality of virtual candidate embeddings.

An image detector for a radiation-based imaging technique is disclosed. The image detector may comprise a detector material on a substrate. The detector material may be an optically active material represented by the following formula (I) (M′).sub.8 (M″M′″).sub.6O.sub.24(X,X′).sub.2:M″″ Further is disclosed the use of the image detector and the use of the optically active material represented by the formula (I).

An image detector for a radiation-based imaging technique is disclosed. The image detector may comprise a detector material on a substrate. The detector material may be an optically active material represented by the following formula (I) (M′).sub.8 (M″M′″).sub.6O.sub.24(X,X′).sub.2:M″″ Further is disclosed the use of the image detector and the use of the optically active material represented by the formula (I).

A phosphor plate includes a plate-like composite including a base material and a phosphor contained in the base material, in which the base material contains spinel, the phosphor includes a phosphor containing a Si element, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the phosphor plate using a Cu-Kα ray, in a case in which peak intensity corresponding to the spinel having a diffraction angle 2θ in a range of 36.0° or more and 37.4° or less is set to 1, total intensity of peaks having a diffraction angle 2θ in a range of 32.5° or more and 34.5° or less satisfies 0.5 or less.

A control system includes a radiation emission apparatus and a radiographic imaging apparatus that generates image data by receiving radiation. A first apparatus of the radiation emission apparatus and the radiographic imaging apparatus includes a first timer that performs time measurement to periodically generate first time measurement information. A second apparatus of the radiation emission apparatus and the radiographic imaging apparatus includes a second timer that performs time measurement to periodically generate second time measurement information. The first apparatus includes an interface that transmits the first time measurement information to the second timer. At least one apparatus includes a hardware processor which adjusts the operation of the first or second timer based on adjustment conditions in a state where the second timer does not acquire the first time measurement information.

A control system includes a radiation emission apparatus and a radiographic imaging apparatus that generates image data by receiving radiation. A first apparatus of the radiation emission apparatus and the radiographic imaging apparatus includes a first timer that performs time measurement to periodically generate first time measurement information. A second apparatus of the radiation emission apparatus and the radiographic imaging apparatus includes a second timer that performs time measurement to periodically generate second time measurement information. The first apparatus includes an interface that transmits the first time measurement information to the second timer. At least one apparatus includes a hardware processor which adjusts the operation of the first or second timer based on adjustment conditions in a state where the second timer does not acquire the first time measurement information.

Radiographic imaging system including: an x-ray transmission unit; an x-ray receiver unit; a plate made from a material opaque to x-rays and situated between the transmission unit and the receiver unit, the plate including at least four channels, each channel enabling a part of the x-rays emitted by the transmission unit to pass through the channel; and an image processing unit configured to determine the coordinates of the projected patterns and to calculate a position of the receiver unit from the coordinates of the projected patterns and from the coordinates of the channels.