Autonomous X-ray Detector Association Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current X-ray imaging systems face challenges in allowing a single detector subsystem to be used across multiple imaging systems, leading to potential misuse of incompatible detector and imager subsystems, which may result in unnecessary radiation exposure to patients.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of autonomous imaging and detector subsystems that can dynamically associate with each other, providing a user-viewable indication of the association, enabling wireless data exchange and ensuring compatibility before imaging procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single detector subsystem is made portable and compatible with multiple imaging systems, then resource utilization and adaptability improve, but the risk of incompatible pairing and harmful radiation exposure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary association verification between the detector subsystem and imager subsystem before imaging procedures. The indicator provides advance notification of compatibility status, allowing users to correct incompatible pairings before radiation exposure occurs, thus preventing harmful effects while maintaining detector versatility
Solution Approach 2:
An association indicator serves as an intermediary communication device between the detector subsystem and imager subsystem. This indicator mediates the compatibility information, translating technical association status into user-understandable visual feedback, thereby enabling safe operation without restricting detector adaptability
2Reliability
If detector and imager subsystems are permanently integrated into a single system, then system reliability improves, but resource utilization and operational flexibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging system is segmented into autonomous detector subsystems and imager subsystems that can operate independently. The association indicator enables these segmented components to reliably identify compatible pairings, maintaining system reliability while allowing detectors to be reused across multiple imaging systems
Solution Approach 2:
The detector subsystem is designed with universal compatibility capabilities to work with multiple imager subsystems. The association indicator ensures that this multi-functionality is exercised safely by verifying compatibility before operation, thus achieving both reusability and reliability
3Object-affected harmful factors
If users manually verify detector-imager compatibility, then radiation safety improves, but operational time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-verification of compatibility through automatic association detection between the detector subsystem and imager subsystem. The association indicator provides immediate visual feedback without requiring manual verification steps, thus ensuring radiation safety while minimizing operational time
Solution Approach 2:
The association indicator provides immediate visual feedback regarding compatibility status. This feedback mechanism eliminates the need for lengthy manual verification processes by automatically communicating association status to users, thereby ensuring safety without increasing operational time
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AI summary
A method and a system are disclosed for operating an X-ray imaging subsystem with an X-ray imaging detector. Each subsystem may be one of many that could operate with one another to create X-ray images. An association is established between the imaging subsystem and the imaging detector, and a user-perceptible indication of the association is generated. The user may be prompted to confirm the association. Thereafter, the two subsystems may be used together for X-ray imaging. An X-ray source of the imaging subsystem may be disabled until the association is established or until the confirmation is received.