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Granted Patent B2
US 12,465,312 · App. 18/462,439 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Radiography system

Inventor: Koichi Kitano (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
A61B6/5211A61B6/544A61B6/547
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Patent No.
US 12,465,312
App. No.
18/462,439
Granted
Nov 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A radiography system includes a radiation generation device including a radiation source unit that emits radiation, a projector that projects an image in an emission direction of the radiation, and at least one processor. The processor acquires distance information indicating a distance from the radiation source unit to a projection surface on which the image is projected, acquires a subject image which is a radiation image captured in the past for a subject of the radiation image, derives, based on the distance information, a visualization range of the subject visualized in the radiation image, which is captured for the subject and is based on the radiation emitted from the radiation source unit, trims the subject image based on the visualization range, and causes the projector to project the trimmed subject image.

Claims (29)

1 . A radiography system comprising:

a radiation generation device including a radiation source unit that emits radiation;

a projector that projects an image in an emission direction of the radiation; and

at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor

acquires distance information indicating a distance from the radiation source unit to a projection surface on which the image is projected,

acquires a subject image which is a radiation image captured in the past for a subject of the radiation image,

derives, based on the distance information, a visualization range of the subject visualized in the radiation image, which is captured for the subject and is based on the radiation emitted from the radiation source unit,

trims the subject image based on the visualization range, and

causes the projector to project the trimmed subject image.

2 . The radiography system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a distance sensor that measures the distance from the radiation source unit to the projection surface.

3 . The radiography system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one processor

acquires posture information indicating an imaging posture of the subject in a case of capturing the radiation image for the subject, and

selects the subject image based on the posture information.

4 . The radiography system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one processor

acquires subject information including physique information indicating a physique of the subject, and

sets a projection size of the subject image based on the physique information.

5 . The radiography system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one processor

acquires fixed distance information indicating a distance which is fixed as the distance from the radiation source unit to the projection surface,

acquires range designation information for designating a range of the subject to be visualized in the radiation image captured for the subject, and

derives an emission condition of the radiation based on the fixed distance information and the range designation information.

6 . The radiography system according to claim 5 ,

wherein the emission condition includes a number of times of emission of the radiation emitted from the radiation source unit.

7 . The radiography system according to claim 6 ,

wherein the at least one processor controls an emission timing for each emission of the radiation emitted from the radiation source unit based on the fixed distance information and the range designation information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2023
From: KITANO, KOICHI
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064867/0658 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-145494 · Sep 13, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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