Medical Image Capturing System with Synchronized Client Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional medical image capturing systems require redundant operations on multiple client terminals, leading to inefficiencies and increased battery consumption in FPD panels due to unnecessary standby states and incorrect radiation detection.
Innovation Solution
A medical image capturing system with a server apparatus and multiple client terminals, where the server includes a display control section to synchronize operation screens, an image management section to handle image take-in instructions, and a storage section to manage parent-child client terminal relationships, allowing for streamlined operations and efficient FPD panel state management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the FPD panel is constantly in the driving state (ready state), then the physician can perform capturing operations immediately, but the battery is consumed rapidly and irradiating of radiation may be falsely detected by vibration applied to the FPD panel
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus performs preliminary actions by sending screen synchronization requests to client terminals before the physician needs to perform capturing operations. This allows the FPD panel to remain in a lower power state while the system prepares necessary data and screens in advance, reducing battery consumption while maintaining operational readiness.
Solution Approach 2:
The server apparatus acts as an intermediary between the client terminal and the FPD panel. It manages the coordination of screen synchronization and capturing operations, allowing the FPD panel to transition to driving state only when necessary, thus reducing unnecessary battery consumption and false radiation detection from vibrations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If client terminals are provided in both the examination room and the capturing room, then the physician can press the image take-in button in the capturing room, but redundant operations are required on both client terminals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the operational states of multiple client terminals through screen synchronization. When a physician performs operations on one client terminal, the same screens and operational states are synchronized to other client terminals, allowing the physician to continue operations from any location without performing redundant actions.
Solution Approach 2:
Each client terminal is designed to be universal in functionality, capable of performing any capturing operation regardless of location. The screen synchronization mechanism ensures that any client terminal can assume the role of the primary terminal, providing multi-functional capability across different locations.
3Use of energy by moving object
If the FPD panel is changed to the driving state linked to when the image take-in button is pressed, then battery consumption is reduced, but the FPD panel may not be in the optimal driving state close to directly before capturing
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus sends screen synchronization requests that trigger the FPD panel to transition to the driving state in advance of the actual capturing operation. This preliminary action ensures the FPD panel is in the optimal driving state close to directly before capturing, reducing the time delay while still managing battery consumption effectively.
4Loss of information
If information is managed on the server apparatus and referred on multiple client terminals, then data accessibility is improved, but the procedure performed on one client terminal needs to be performed similarly on other client terminals
Solution Approach 1:
The server apparatus implements feedback mechanisms by monitoring operations performed on any client terminal and automatically synchronizing the operational state to all other client terminals. This feedback loop eliminates the need for physicians to manually repeat procedures on different terminals, reducing operational complexity while maintaining data accessibility.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances operability by reducing redundant operations and minimizing battery consumption in FPD panels by synchronizing client terminal screens and optimizing the FPD panel's state transitions, thereby improving the efficiency of medical image capturing processes.
Implementation Method 1
the FPD panel itself detects the irradiating timing of the radiation irradiated from the radiation generating apparatus and generates the medical image according to the irradiated radiation
Data Source
AI summary
A medical image capturing system includes, a server apparatus, and a plurality of client terminals and an image generating apparatus which are connected to the server apparatus to be able to communicate data. The server apparatus includes a display control section, an image management section, and a storage section. The image management section takes in a medical image generated by the image generating apparatus and provides the medical image to the client terminal. The storage section stores a combination of a parent client terminal and a child client terminal set in advance. When there is access from the child client terminal, the display control section provides data of an operation screen which is the same as the parent client terminal to the child client terminal.