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US 8,513,609 · App. 12/546,709 · Granted Aug 20, 2013

Management device, storage medium stored with program and imaging device

Inventors: Keiji Tsubota (Kanagawa, JP); Yutaka Yoshida (Kanagawa, JP); Takeshi Kamiya (Kanagawa, JP); Naoyuki Nishino (Kanagawa, JP); Yasunori Ohta (Kanagawa, JP); Keiichiro Sato (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,513,609
App. No.
12/546,709
Granted
Aug 20, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A management device that includes an acquiring component and a numericalizetion component is provided. The acquiring component acquires correlation information that correlates with a degree of deterioration of a radiation detection component from plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising a radiation detection component that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region. The numericalization component numericalizes the degree of deterioration of each of the respective radiation detection components of the plurality of imaging devices based on the correlation information acquired by the acquiring component.

Claims (26)

1. A management device comprising:

an acquiring component that acquires correlation information that correlates with a degree of deterioration of a radiation detection component from plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising a radiation detection component that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region;

a numericalization component that numericalizes the degree of deterioration of each of the respective radiation detection components of the plurality of imaging devices based on the correlation information acquired by the acquiring component; and

a recommendation component that recommends use of at least one of the imaging devices based on the degree of deterioration numericalized by the numericalization component.

2. The management device of claim 1 , wherein the correlation information is at least one of: the number of times of imaging; the number of defective pixels in the radiation detection component; the distribution of defective pixels in the radiation detection component; the cumulative amount of radiation exposure incurred; and a noise level in the radiation detection component.

3. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function of managing imaging devices, the function comprising:

numericalizing the degree of deterioration of each of respective radiation detection components of a plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising one of the radiation detection components that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region; and

recommending use of at least one of the imaging devices based on the numericalized degree of deterioration.

4. A management device comprising:

an acquiring component that acquires correlation information that correlates with a degree of deterioration of a radiation detection component from plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising a radiation detection component that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region;

a numericalization component that numericalizes the degree of deterioration of each of the respective radiation detection components of the plurality of imaging devices based on the correlation information acquired by the acquiring component; and

a selection component that, when imaging a plurality of times, selects each of the imaging devices from the plurality of imaging devices with a probability according to the degree of deterioration, based on the degree of deterioration numericalized by the numericalization component.

5. The management device of claim 4 further comprising a display component that displays information representing a predetermined imaging subject when the degree of deterioration of the imaging device selected by the selection component exceeds a threshold value.

6. The management device of claim 4 , wherein the correlation information is at least one of: the number of times of imaging; the number of defective pixels in the radiation detection component; the distribution of defective pixels in the radiation detection component; the cumulative amount of radiation exposure incurred; and a noise level in the radiation detection component.

7. A management device comprising:

an acquiring component that acquires correlation information that correlates with a degree of deterioration of a radiation detection component from plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising a radiation detection component that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region;

a numericalization component that numericalizes the degree of deterioration of each of the respective radiation detection components of the plurality of imaging devices based on the correlation information acquired by the acquiring component; and

a selection component that selects the imaging device(s), from the plurality of imaging devices, whose degree of deterioration is a specific value or greater.

8. The management device of claim 7 further comprising a display component that displays information representing a predetermined imaging subject when the degree of deterioration of the imaging device selected by the selection component exceeds a threshold value.

9. The management device of claim 7 , wherein the correlation information is at least one of: the number of times of imaging; the number of defective pixels in the radiation detection component; the distribution of defective pixels in the radiation detection component; the cumulative amount of radiation exposure incurred; and a noise level in the radiation detection component.

10. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function of managing imaging devices, the function comprising:

numericalizing the degree of deterioration of each of respective radiation detection components of a plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising one of the radiation detection components that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region;

wherein the function further comprises, when imaging a plurality of times, selecting each of the imaging devices from the plurality of imaging devices with a probability according to the degree of deterioration, based on the numericalized degree of deterioration.

11. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function of managing imaging devices, the function comprising:

numericalizing the degree of deterioration of each of respective radiation detection components of a plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising one of the radiation detection components that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region

wherein the function further comprises selecting the imaging device(s), from the plurality of imaging devices, whose degree of deterioration is a specific value or greater.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2009
From: TSUBOTA, KEIJI; YOSHIDA, YUTAKA; KAMIYA, TAKESHI; NISHINO, NAOYUKI; OHTA, YASUNORI; SATO, KEIICHIRO
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (2)
JP 2008-230215 · Sep 8, 2008 · national
JP 2009-177972 · Jul 30, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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