X-ray Fluoroscopic Imaging Recording Button
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatuses have limited flexibility in recording fluoroscopic images, allowing only the final frame to be recorded, which does not meet the user's desire for recording arbitrary images for diagnosis.
Innovation Solution
An X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus with an imager, temporary storage, and a fluoroscopic recording button that allows operators to record images as still or moving images during or after imaging, enhancing the flexibility of image recording.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If only the last image hold function is used to record fluoroscopic images, then the system structure remains simple, but the recording flexibility and user freedom are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The fluoroscopic recording button is designed to perform multiple functions: it can record fluoroscopic images during imaging mode and after imaging mode completion, and can switch between still image and moving image recording. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by providing versatile recording capabilities without requiring separate dedicated buttons for each function, thus improving adaptability while maintaining relatively simple system structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The recording button's functionality dynamically changes based on the imaging state. During fluoroscopic imaging, the button records images at the current timestamp; after imaging completion, it records the last captured image from temporary storage. This dynamic behavior allows the system to adapt to different operational phases, providing recording flexibility without requiring complex separate control systems for each phase.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a dedicated button is added for each recording function (still image, moving image, during imaging, after imaging), then recording flexibility improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single fluoroscopic recording button is designed to provide multiple recording options through software control rather than hardware multiplication. The button can initiate still image recording, moving image recording, recording during imaging, and recording after imaging based on user selection and system state, eliminating the need for multiple physical buttons while maintaining comprehensive recording capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent resolves the contradiction by moving from hardware differentiation (multiple buttons) to software/dimension differentiation (one button with multiple modes). The recording button's functionality is extended across the time dimension (during/after imaging) and format dimension (still/moving image) through software control, providing diverse recording options without increasing physical device complexity.
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
Enables users to record desired fluoroscopic images in various formats and at desired times, improving the degree of freedom in image recording and meeting diagnostic needs.
Implementation Method 1
an imager configured to perform fluoroscopic imaging of a subject with X-rays
Data Source
AI summary
An X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus includes a fluoroscopic recording button that an operator operates to record a fluoroscopic image as a still image or a moving image in a storage during fluoroscopic imaging and record, as the still image or the moving image in the storage, the fluoroscopic image recorded in a temporary storage after completion of the fluoroscopic imaging.