Radiation Imaging Apparatus Time Synchronization via Priority Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing radiation imaging systems face a time lag between the radiation source control apparatus and the radiation imaging apparatus due to overlapping communication for time synchronization and image transfer, leading to potential exposure errors, especially in medical applications where precise timing is crucial.
Innovation Solution
A radiation imaging apparatus with a time count control unit that generates a synchronization control message with priority over image data transmission, ensuring accurate synchronization between the radiation imaging apparatus and the radiation source control apparatus by managing time and adjusting for propagation delays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If communication for time synchronization and image transfer use the same network simultaneously, then device complexity is reduced, but time synchronization precision deteriorates due to overlapping communications causing time lag
Solution Approach 1:
The communication network is segmented into two separate networks: a first communication network for time synchronization messages and a second communication network for image data transfer. This segmentation prevents overlapping communications and eliminates time lag caused by shared network contention, thereby maintaining time synchronization precision while managing device complexity through dedicated network channels.
2Productivity
If synchronization messages are transmitted with lower priority than image data, then image transfer efficiency is improved, but time synchronization accuracy deteriorates due to delayed synchronization messages
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting communications into separate networks, the patent eliminates the need for priority-based message scheduling. Time synchronization messages on the first network and image data on the second network are transmitted independently without competing for bandwidth, ensuring both high image transfer efficiency and accurate time synchronization simultaneously.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution reduces time lag and synchronization errors, ensuring accurate and efficient operation of radiation imaging systems, particularly during moving image capture, by prioritizing synchronization messages and using statistical correction values to maintain precise timing.
Implementation Method 1
a detection unit configured to detect radiation emitted by a radiation generation apparatus and transmitted through an object
Data Source
AI summary
A radiation imaging apparatus acquires image data by detecting radiation emitted by a radiation generation apparatus, manages a time in the radiation imaging apparatus, generates a synchronization control message to be transmitted to synchronize a time managed by an irradiation control apparatus configured to control radiation irradiation by the radiation generation apparatus with the managed time, and transmits the image data and the synchronization control message, wherein the synchronization control message is transmitted with priority over the image data.